How to Make a Batty Wreath

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

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

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
  • 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

Step1
Remove the tab ring from the top of a soda can.
Step2
Bend the top of the can over and smash it flat with your foot.
Step3
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.
Step4
Spray paint the can black and let dry.
Step5
Glue two 10mm wiggly eyes on the can above the hole.
Step6
Cut two skinny triangles out of white paper for the fangs.
Step7
Glue the fangs in the hole.
Step8
Glue a red bead at the top of the fangs in the middle to look like a nose.
Step9
Cut a 10-by-10-inch piece of black plastic from a trash bag.
Step10
Fold a piece of plastic in half and cut scallop-shaped edges.
Step11
Gather the plastic square in the middle where it was folded, and tie it off with a piece of black pipe cleaner.
Step12
Hot-glue the pipe cleaner to the back of the can. The wings should stick out on both sides of the can.
Step13
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

Step1
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.
Step2
Open the end of the hanger by twisting apart at the hook.
Step3
Roll a white plastic grocery bag lengthwise.
Step4
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.
Step5
Fill the wire wreath until it's nice and full. Use about 10 to 15 bags, depending on size.
Step6
Close the wire wreath by re-twisting the hook and the loose end together.
Step7
Spray paint the wreath orange and yellow. Let dry.

Completing the Wreath

Step1
Glue several bats to the wreath.
Step2
Add wrapped Halloween suckers and a big orange and black ribbon bow.

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on 11/22/2005 You need a straw wreath, Tootsie Roll Pops or Blow Pops -the amount needed is determined by size of straw wreath. Buy Halloween material and cut with pinking shears in 4X4 squares. Tie them over the pops with black ribbon and push them into the wreath.

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