Vintage Halloween Crafts
Halloween is the perfect holiday for creating vintage craft items. These might take the form of party decorations or favors, home accents or craft projects intended for outdoor use. Vintage Halloween craft projects draw on the images of times past to add to today's celebrations
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Classic Halloween Party Crafts
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The simplest way to give any craft a vintage flavor is to seek out antique images or clip art. Free vintage Halloween images are available at websites such as vintageholidaycrafts.com. Download and print vintage images to make favor bags for a classic Halloween party. Purchase 7-inch paper bags and glue the vintage images to the fronts of the bags. Fill each bag with wrapped candy.
Vintage Halloween images often use figures in silhouette. Cut silhouettes of Halloween shapes out of black construction paper and hang these cut-outs on the wall.
Make a vintage garland by stapling old-fashioned cat eye masks 6 inches apart on 1-inch black grosgrain ribbon.
Home Accents
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Use vintage Halloween crafts as home accents during the month of October. Secure a pillar candle that is 2 inches in diameter and 4 inches tall in a wide-mouth quart mason jar by melting a little wax in the bottom of the jar and pressing the candle in place on top of the hot wax. Drop about 1 inch of candy corn in the bottom of the jar to surround the candle for a vintage-looking Halloween candle globe.
Frame or decoupage period Halloween postcards for seasonal wall art with a classic twist. Print out vintage Halloween images on card stock and use them to create a festive scene in a shoebox diorama.
Create Halloween tablecloths and runners using fabric with vintage Halloween patterns. Websites such as warmbiscuit.com offer classic Halloween fabric.
Outdoor Decorations
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While traditional jack-o-lanterns are a timeless outdoor decoration for Halloween, craft projects with a classic touch can create a vintage feel. Make a Halloween wreath using laminated vintage images and black silhouette cut-outs for ornamentation.
Create vintage lawn ghosts using cheesecloth and fabric stiffener. For each ghost, drive a 3-foot wooden stake into the ground and place a 6-inch plastic foam ball on top of the stake, pressing the ball about 2 inches into the stake. Drape cheesecloth that has been soaked in fabric stiffener over the foam ball and arrange. Give the ghosts a period look by adding vintage masks for faces
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