How to Make a Trash Bag Ghost

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Fill your porch and trees with spooky ghosts this Halloween. After the holiday, take the ghost bags and fill them with leaves to make compost for your garden next spring.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • Plastic Grocery Bags
  • Poster Paints
  • Permanent Markers
  • String
  • tall, white kitchen trash bags

Step1
Use a tall, white kitchen trash bag for a large ghost.
Step2
Use a white plastic grocery bag for a small ghost.
Step3
Stuff the bottom of the bag with plastic grocery bags or leaves - just enough to make a head shape.
Step4
Tie off the bag with a long piece of string.
Step5
Paint black eyes on the ghost's head.
Step6
Tie the ghost in a tree or along the porch.

Tips & Warnings

  • Don't let toddlers play with plastic bags; they could suffocate.

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