How to Make a Batty Wreath

Go "batty" with plastic grocery bags and aluminum soda cans on a wire clothes hanger to make a cute door wreath.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 6 (10mm) Wiggly Eyes
• Orange And Black Ribbons For Bow
• 3 Red Pony Beads
• Black Trash Bags
• Glue Guns
• Hot Glue Sticks
• Scissors
• Wire Clothes Hangers
• Scissors
• 3 Black Pipe Cleaners
• spray paints (orange, yellow, black)
• 10 to 15 plastic grocery bags
• construction paper (black, white)
• 3 aluminum soda cans

Making the Bats

1. Remove the tab ring from the top of a soda can.

2. Bend the top of the can over and smash it flat with your foot.

3. Turn the can over and bend the bottom of the can to the back or the opposite of the top. Smash flat with your foot.

4. Spray paint the can black and let dry.

5. Glue two 10mm wiggly eyes on the can above the hole.

6. Cut two skinny triangles out of white paper for the fangs.

7. Glue the fangs in the hole.

8. Glue a red bead at the top of the fangs in the middle to look like a nose.

9. Cut a 10-by-10-inch piece of black plastic from a trash bag.

10. Fold a piece of plastic in half and cut scallop-shaped edges.

11. Gather the plastic square in the middle where it was folded, and tie it off with a piece of black pipe cleaner.

12. Hot-glue the pipe cleaner to the back of the can. The wings should stick out on both sides of the can.

13. Cut two small triangles out of black paper for the ears, and glue them to the top of the can above the eyes.

Making the Wreath

14. Shape a wire clothes hanger into a circle by holding one hand on the hook and the other hand on the bottom in the middle and pulling apart.

15. Open the end of the hanger by twisting apart at the hook.

16. Roll a white plastic grocery bag lengthwise.

17. Start at one end, and poke the end of the hanger through the gathered bag. Thread the bag on the wire, poking the wire through the bag about every 2 inches.

18. Fill the wire wreath until it's nice and full. Use about 10 to 15 bags, depending on size.

19. Close the wire wreath by re-twisting the hook and the loose end together.

20. Spray paint the wreath orange and yellow. Let dry.

Completing the Wreath

21. Glue several bats to the wreath.

22. Add wrapped Halloween suckers and a big orange and black ribbon bow.

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