I know I have mentioned this before but I love updating our holiday decor each year with fun, budget-friendly decor items! Bonus if it’s something we can do during craft time! This tassel ghost garland was so easy and fun and the kids love it! Here’s how to make your own:
HALLOWEEN TASSEL GHOST GARLAND
First step is to gather up supplies for your homemade ghost garland. Please feel free to use whatever you have around the house! Using colored yarn would be fun or even using ribbon or felt! This kids Halloween craft is meant to be simple and fun!
Supplies
- White yarn (I used some similar to this but any yarn will do!)
- Scissors
- Scotch or masking tape
- A book (the size of the book will determine the size of the tassel)
- Black embroidery floss or beads (for the eyes)
How to make your tassel ghost garland
Now that you have all of your supplies, you can start making! This is seriously SO easy!
1.First, you will want to cut a piece of yarn about 8-10″ in length and tape it to the spine of your book. This will hold the tasseled yarn together.
2. Next, you will wrap the yarn the other direction around the book. Continue wrapping until you have the size of tassel you desire. (I wrapped ours around about 30 times.)
3. When this is complete, you will release the tape on the spine, and tie the piece of yarn in a double knot around the wrapped yarn.
4. After this step, you will take your scissors and carefully cut the yarn along the opposite side of the book, or where the pages open. (Careful not to cut your pages…this is why a board book works great but any book will do!)
Assembling your tassel ghost
5. Once you’ve cut through all the yarn, you have the first step of the tassel complete! Next you will want to trim another piece of yarn from your spool that is about 8-10″ in length.
6. The next step is to lay your tassel and tie it with the cut piece of yarn to create the ‘head’ portion of the ghost. Wrap and tie tight once, then continue wrapping around to use up more of the yarn, then tie tight in the back and trim off any extra yarn.
Adding eyes & details to your ghost
You are seeing the shape now! Your tassel is essentially complete but it will look more ghostly once you add the eyes! Here’s what we did to create the eyes:
Take a 3″ piece of the black embroidery floss. You will chose one of the strands of yard in the head and tie the floss around it, knot it three times, then wrap around the back and knot one last time, then trim. Repeat for the other eye!
There are many different ways you could add eyes and details (Embroidery floss is what we had on hand!) You could use beads, felt or googly eyes. You could also add other facial features!
Finally, you will string all of your ghosts together along one long strand of yarn! Just slide the yarn through the head of the ghost to where you want it, and tie the string one time around, then repeat with the other ghosts. Pair this craft with our fun Felt Jack-o-Lantern craft for lots of Halloween fun!
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Cute, Spooky Fun Halloween Craft
This is such a fun and easy way to add some cute and spooky spunk to your holiday decor! When you have your tassel ghost garland complete, please share on Instagram and tag me so I can see how you used it to decorate! I am always looking for new ideas!
Happy All Hallows Eve!
