Best Easy DIY Halloween Decor Ideas

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Íme, néhány dekorációs ötlet Halloweenre, természetesen angolul.  

Halloween is here and it is time to begin getting into the spirit of the season and to start decorating your home if you will.

You don’t even need to like pumpkins to get into the spirit of things (although it definitely helps) but there are plenty of options for do-it-yourself Halloween home decor if you think outside the box, even just a little.

So take a look at this list of easy do-it-yourself Halloween home decor ideas, and you just might be able to have some fun.

1. Glowing Eyes

Want to terrify people with some glowing eyes around your apartment? Just take some toilet rolls, cut eye shapes into them, insert a couple of glow sticks and cover the ends. Simple.

2. Fake Pumpkins

If pumpkins are too heavy or you simply don’t like them, then just make your own. Get some foil tubing from a hardware store and a piece of pipe for the stem. Arrange the tubing in a circle and spray orange.

3. Ghost Candles

It doesn’t get any easier than picking up some tall, white candles and drawing ghost faces on them with a sharpie.

4. “The Nightmare before Christmas” Light

Take a cheap touch light. Take your sharpie and draw the face of Jack Skellington from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare before Christmas.

5. Blood-Dripped Candles

Light a red candle and drip the wax around the edge of a white candle to give the appearance of blood.

6. Garage Door Victim

If you really want to freak people out,stuff some old clothes with straw or paper and leave the top half under your garage door, then splatter the front of the door with ketchup.

7. Cardboard Zombie Window

Cut some cardboard into long pieces and paint a wood grain pattern onto them and attach to doors or windows for that “boarded-up” look. For an added touch, attach plastic skeleton hands or even draw eyeballs on ping pong balls and have them peering through.

8. Eyeball Flowers

Buy some plastic eyeballs or use the ping pong ball trick (cut them in half to mimic eyeballs) and then glue them in place in the center of fake roses. Obviously, the darker the flowers, the better.

9. Watermelon Brain

Peela watermelon so the white part is still visible, put it in a bowl and cut a brain pattern into it. This is great for those who don’t like pumpkins.

10. A Head in a Jar

Take a panoramic photograph of somebody’s head and print it in color, then curl the paper up, put it in a jar and freak everybody out.

11. Another Head in a Jar

If the previous head-in-a-jar trick seemed like too much effort, just take some old doll heads, wrap them in lace or cheesecloth, and put them inside a bell jar.

12. Cheesecloth Ghosts

To make these ghosts just put some type of ball on top of a soda bottle and use some wire to arrange the position of the arms. Drape the cheesecloth over the top and spray with starch. Once they are dry, these will be able to stand up on their own.

13. PVC Mummy

If you have PVC piping, some old clothes and a mask, you too can throw together a pretty awesome mummy.

14. Styrofoam Tombstone

If you have access to an iron, you can make a pretty impressive-looking tombstone. Just draw your design onto a piece ofstyrofoam and then engrave it with the soldering iron in a well-ventilated area. After that, spray it gray and add some extra details, and voila, a realistic-looking tombstone.

Source: littlethings.com

What’s Halloween? Can you fill in the gaps in the text using the words given?

evil, All Souls’ Day , harvest,  bonfires , new year, Celtic, ghosts, dead

How did Halloween begin? The holiday traces back to the ancient …… (1) festival known as Samhain. The ancient Celts from Britain and Ireland observed the start of the …… (2) on November 1, …… (3). The day marked the end of summer and the …… (4). Folks came to believe that on October 31, the worlds of the living and …… (5) overlapped before the start of the new year. October 31 became All Hallows Eve, a time where the …… (6) of the dead could return to destroy the harvest that was stored for winter. People set …… (7) on hilltops to ward off the ……(8) spirits before the start of the winter season.

Key

1. Celtic

2. new year

3. All Souls’ Day

4. harvest

5. dead

6. ghosts

7. bonfires

8. evil

Vocabulary

to get into the spirit of sg

valaminek a hangulatába kerülni

pumpkin

sütőtök

do-it-yourself, DIY

csináld magad

to think outside the box

a szokásostól eltérő módon közelíteni valamihez

glowing

világító

to terrify

megijeszteni

toilet roll

vécépapír guriga

shape

alak

to insert

belerakni

glow stick

világító rúd

fake

ál, utánzat

foil tubing

fóliából készült flexibilis cső

hardware store

vas- és fémáru bolt

pipe

cső

stem

kocsány

candle

gyertya

ghost

szellem

sharpie

alkoholos filctoll

nightmare

rémálom

touch light

érintős, elemes lámpa

blood-dripped

vértől csöpögő

to drip

csöpögtetni

wax

viasz

appearance

kinézetel

blood

vér

victim

áldozat

to freak out

kiakasztani, megbotránkoztatni

to stuff

kitömni

straw

szalma

to splatter

befröcskölni

cardboard

kartonpapír

wood grain

faerezet

pattern

mintázat

to attach

odaerősíteni

boarded-up

bedeszkázott

plastic

műanyag

skeleton

csontváz

eyeball

szemgolyó

to peer

kikukucskálni

to mimic

imitálni

to glue

ragasztani

to peel

meghámozni

watermelon

görögdinnye

visible

látható

brain

agy

to curl

feltekerni

jar

(befőttes) üveg

doll

baba

to wrap

becsomagolni

lace

csipke

cheesecloth

pamutkarton, géz anyag

bell jar

üvegharang

soda bottle

üdítőitalos üveg

wire

drót

starch

keményítő

mummy

múmia

tombstone

sírkő

styrofoam

hungarocell

to engrave

gravírozni, vésni

soldering iron

forrasztópáka

well-ventillated

jól szellőző

realistic-looking

igazinak kinéző

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