HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Because Halloween and Thanksgiving are so close, I thought I would get a jump start before you start throwing away all your pumpkins after the last trick-or-treaters leave tonight!! It is still fall and the winter chill has not fully set in, so we might as well keep feeling festive and re-use our Halloween decoration
.Here are some ideas to transform your pumpkin and other decorations from Halloween to Thanksgiving!
1. Use leaves from your yard or leaf garland and
wrap an old wreath or a styrofoam donut to create a very colorful wreath for
your front door
2. Display hollowed-out pumpkins filled with potted fall flowers for a stately
on your front steps or a gorgeous table centerpiece.
3. Adapt Christmas lights
for the Thanksgiving season. Position branches in a pot half filled with small rocks..
Fill in the top of the pot with gourds and pumpkins to add a splash of color,
and wrap strands of lights around the bare branches.
4. Turn an old or summer planter into a pumpkin perch for fall. Hot-glue corn-husks
to a straw wreath form and set the wreath on top of a planter and place a
pumpkin in the wreath. This way you won’t have to put them away for the holiday
seasons!
5. Add some pizzazz to your front yard by lining a walkway
with pumpkins.
6. Poke holes in the top of your left over Halloween pumpkins with a
screwdriver and insert leaf-covered or bare branches with lights into the holes
and flank your front door for a dramatic entrance for family and friends.
7. Spray paint tiny gourds and pumpkins in a metallic gold
and bronze and put them in a large vase or serving vessel for a table
centerpiece.
8. Cut off the top of the gourd and scoop out the goods to
create a perfect “flower vase” for your fall flower arrangements and Thanksgiving
centerpieces.
9. Paint your mini pumpkins from Halloween in a white or
cream color and place them on candle holders, on top of your mantel for a nice display.
10. Use colorful ears of corn with their husks left on and
wrap around glass hurricane using twin for a dramatic Thanksgiving candle
holder.
Tis' the season to give THANKS
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