I've recently been put in charge of our church's activities. I'm really into it! My first one to plan was our Trunk Or Treat. I went to my trusty notebook full of pulled out magazine ideas and chose a couple to try. Martha Stewart is always a good place to start as well. She had the idea below of the hanging decorations.
I will warn you that the directions that come with some of her projects are not great. This one had no suggestion of what kind of paper to use so I chose scrap booking paper. After folding my first 12x12 paper into a fan my hands felt arthritic. This project just did not work. My back up plan was to use newspaper which was free and much easier to work with. I chose not to add the faces, it didn't look good with the newspaper.
My next project idea was also by Martha Stewart, candy corn pom poms. Aren't they cute?!!
Again, the directions to these could have been better. My outcome wasn't near as pretty but good enough.
Here are my homemade decorations all together.
I did not have a beautiful backdrop for my hard work but I'm happy with the overall effect.
On the food tables I crafted some arrangements with sticks, more newspaper pinwheels, and some dollar store black birds. I also used purchased Spanish moss. I could have used some out of our tree but I didn't want to risk bugs getting into the food.
I learned all kinds of things working on this party. I am considering doing another blog especially for these events. I was hoping one already existed but if it does I haven't found it.
I think a blog with that theme would be great. I do auction decorations for our school. Total learning curve on how things work and come together. We never have a big budget so we have to stretch the dollars.
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