How to Make Your Own Funny Halloween Yard Decorations

Scarecrow Family

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  Get a couple of hay bails. Pull one apart and spread the hay on the ground. Once the hay is spread place the other bail on top of it.

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  Collect some old clothes. You want pieces of clothing in a few sizes, because you're going to make a mom and pop scarecrow. You'll need some shirts, paints, gloves, boots, socks, bandanas and hats. Make sure that one hat looks like a man's hat and the other a woman's hat---a bonnet is a good choice for this.

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  Stuff the clothes to create the body. To do this, stuff some garbage bags with newspapers; use large bags for the body and small can liners for the arms and legs. Stuff the bags so that the newspapers inside are fairly compact.

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  Fill the pants with the stuffed bags until the legs fill out. Tape the ends of the pant legs, put a pair of socks of them and then stuff them into the boots. Sit the stuffed pants on the hay bail.

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  Add the stuff bag to the shirt and button it up. Stack the top half of the body onto the pants. To make it stand up get a small stick and push it into the hay bail behind the scarecrow. Fasten the body of the scarecrow onto the stick with some heavy tape.

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  Get a plastic trick-or-treat pumpkin; this is the kind of pumpkin that kids take house to house for their candy. Draw a funny face on the pumpkin; make a man's face.

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  Tape the pumpkin to the top of the stuffed shirt using thick tape. Turn the face in the right direction.

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  Cover the neck area and the tape with a bandana.

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  Place a battery-operated tealight in the pumpkin; you'll turn this on at night.

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  Cover the head with a hat.

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  Repeat the process to make the woman scarecrow.

Pumpkin Spiders

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  Buy some pumpkins of various sizes---choose both large pumpkins as well as mini-pumpkins.

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  Spray paint the pumpkins black and let them dry.

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  Glue on large craft eyes using craft glue and let the glue dry according to the instructions on the can.

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  Attach some black pipe cleaners to the bottom of the pumpkin with some decorative tacks. You need eight of them to make the legs.

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  Bend the legs so that they look like the legs of a creepy, crawly spider. Place on and around the hay bail. You can place them near the scarecrow family, at their feet and in the yard if the pumpkin is large enough.