{"id":1464,"date":"2012-10-08T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2012-10-07T23:20:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T04:20:03","slug":"happy-halloween-a-decorating-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/10\/happy-halloween-a-decorating-idea.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween: A Decorating Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1465\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo5.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1465\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1465\" title=\"photo5\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo5-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo5.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OOOOOOOoooooo&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love my ghosts! Last year my ghost door hanging and my 10 hanging ghosts got moldy from one too many humid Florida Octobers. So I trashed them rather then packaging them up with all of our costumes for a year.<\/p>\n<p>This year I decided to make another batch of ghosts&#8230;and I figured I&#8217;d share this fun and easy homemade Halloween craft with you! And you get to recycle\/repurpose plastic grocery bags, so win win for reducing waste!<\/p>\n<p>Materials required:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One package of Gerber white flatfold diapers. I&#8217;ve included a picture of the package label below. Don&#8217;t get &#8220;prefolds&#8221;; they won&#8217;t work. You could also buy a cheap white sheet set and cut the fabric into approximately 2&#8242; x 2&#8242; squares.<\/li>\n<li>Transparent monofilament, such as inexpensive fishing line. This will make the ghosts appear to float.<\/li>\n<li>Stuffing for the heads of the ghosts: I used plastic grocery bags, preferably white ones like Walmart.<\/li>\n<li>Twist ties or pipe cleaners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s all pretty straightforward: wad up 2-3 plastic grocery bags and cinch them in a diaper with a twist tie or pipe cleaner. Then thread a needle with some monofilament (about 1 yard per ghost) to make a hanging loop through the top of the head. \u00a0Simply hang them outside on your favorite tree or under your favorite eave&#8230;and let them blow in the wind!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1467\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo3.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1467\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1467\" title=\"photo3\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo3.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the packaging to the diapers I picked up at Walmart.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1466\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo4.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1466\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1466\" title=\"photo4\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo4-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo4.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We have fishing gear, so I didn&#8217;t have to travel far to find some monofilament&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1468\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1468\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1468\" title=\"photo2\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo2.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thread the monofilament through the very top of the ghost.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love my ghosts! Last year my ghost door hanging and my 10 hanging ghosts got moldy from one too many humid Florida Octobers. So I trashed them rather then packaging them up with all of our costumes for a year. This year I decided to make another batch of ghosts&#8230;and I figured I&#8217;d share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,74,185],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-nC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1493,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/11\/halloween-2012.html","url_meta":{"origin":1464,"position":0},"title":"Halloween 2012","date":"12 November 12","format":false,"excerpt":"It was the saddest thing, not being home for my boys' Halloween. 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