Halloween Mobile

Halloween mobile

This project was pretty easy and fairly inexpensive.

I bought some spider web coasters from Michaels and a large felt spider for the middle. I also bought an embroidery hoop to hang everything from. I had some fishing line and black craft paint already.

I painted the embroidery hoop with the black paint and took the hardware off and glued the two rings together - if you don't take the hardware off then the hoop won't hang evenly because it will be too heavy on one side. Then make a criss-cross pattern around the hoop with the fishing line so you have something to hang the spider from in the middle. I also made a hoop in the fishing line to use to hang the mobile from when it was done. Then cut varying lengths of the fishing line and attach to the web coasters and tie around the edges of the hoop.

Sorry about the picture quality, I took these at night in my kitchen but hopefully you can see how I tied the fishing line. It was also super hard to take a picture of the mobile while hanging, but here's a few shots:

Another Halloween project complete!

Halloween frames

I love this time of year. Halloween and Christmas are my favorite holidays for decorating and crafting. This was my first DIY project for Halloween this year.

I started with six $1 frames from Michaels. Then, I painted half of them with black spray paint and the other half with black craft paint and a foam brush. You can see the wood grain more in the spray paint version and those ones are also a little shiny compared to the matte finish with the craft paint. I would say they took about the same amount of time since I had to do two coats with the spray paint to get a good cover so I would use whatever you have on hand.

After your paint is dry, you are ready to decorate. I bought a 12x12 piece of scrapbook paper with six images on it that I used in each frame. Then I used buttons, paper, ribbon and glue dots to decorate the frames.

Now I just need somewhere to display them...