How to Create Wacky Fall Decorations

Wacky wreath head

Fall décor doesn’t have to be ho-hum. You can make it silly and incredibly interesting when you create wacky fall decorations. Wacky means using bright colors, like a blasting gold and happy orange, and drawing whimsical faces on everything possible. Some simple steps will help you create wacky fall decorations that will leave everyone smiling.

Things You'll Need

• Pumpkins and gourds
• Cornucopia
• Dried bark
• Paint pens and spray paint
• Wreath
• Sheet metal, plate, skull or other object for wreath head

Instructions

1. Play with pumpkins. Pumpkins by their very nature are wacky. Use paint pens to draw smiley faces, angry faces, surprised faces and an array of other expressions on them. Place strategically around your home and yard.

2. Make a kooky wreath. Buy a straw wreath from a craft store or wrap soft branches or dried palm fronds with wire. Form into a circle and secure with more wire. Find a plastic plate, round piece of sheet metal, skull or other roundish object to place in the center of the wreath. Paint everything a blaring color, complete with a funny face on the central item, and hang on your front door.

3. Use cornucopias. Just like pumpkins, cornucopias are also wacky just because they exist. Fill the mouth of the cornucopia with miniature pumpkins and gourds on which you have painted funky faces.

4. Create bark art. Find shards and pieces of dried bark and adorn them more faces and silly looking swirls and circles. Hang them with wire and nails or thumb tacks on trees, door jams and walls. You can also loop rope through two holes you create in the top of the bark and hang them from furniture pieces or door knobs.

5. Engage the kids. Kids’ artwork is always a great addition to wacky themes. If you don't have children of your own, encourage some neighborhood children to draw on your pumpkins with you. Hang fall-theme pictures kids have drawn around the door and window frames with thumb tacks. The kids will be thrilled and your home will surely be wacky.

Tips & Warnings

• Deep forest green is a good color to offset the blaring gold and orange.

• Lime green works if you couple it with a dark gold or orange.

• A voodoo scarecrow is also a great addition to wacky fall decorations.

• Don’t paint the pumpkins like jack-o-lanterns or they will feel horribly passé after Halloween. Make them more generic so they stay fashionable through Thanksgiving.