Sunday, October 28, 2018

VHS Tapes Make Wonderful Creepy Halloween Streamers

The year we decorated our porch with strips of Dollar Store plastic tablecloths 
I loved the way the streamers draped and flounced and flared in the wind. 
The trick or treaters loved walking through the "curtains" too, 
except for one little girl who refused to even step into our yard. lol
I made the floating flying bats out of painted foam meat trays and curly wire.

So this year when we decorated the back deck with lights we wanted to add 
streamers but didn't want to fiddle around with cutting plastic tablecloths into strips.


Then we remembered that we'd used old VHS tapes 
to make a huge spider web in the yard. 


Off we go to the thrift store where we picked up this tape for a quarter. 
So, faster than you can say, "You're a streamer, Harry!" 
we had totally awesome, easy and thrifty Halloween decor
 that looks creepy and cool!


It was so EASY. 
We tied random lengths of tape to the strung lights around our deck 
and we LOVE the way it came out. A cloudy sky and little breeze 
made the shiny tape streamers look crazy spooky!







The tapes looked so cool that now we're discussing using them
 for some creepy costume ideas.Think how awesome a witch outfit would look 
with dozens of these tape streamers flowing around it?
Or a Dementor from the Harry Potter movies?
Or a Nazgul from Lord of the Rings?

Just picture this with MUCH MORE tattered streamer action!

This could be so much fun!

Grab yourself some old VHS tapes and 
go wild with your Halloween decorating!

1 comment:

  1. That's hilarious! VHS tapes are finding a new niche, hehe. The creepy streamers turned out, well, creepy.

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