How to Make Vintage Halloween Decorations
- 1). Build a scarecrow that looks as if he stepped out of the past. Prop him up with boards and sticks and outfit him with old worn blue jeans, a faded plaid shirt and a large straw hat. To really give your new friend a vintage look, make his head out of a pumpkin. Wrap the pumpkin in a burlap sack with a smiling scarecrow face painted on it. Tie an old length of frayed rope or raffia at the base of the melon to give your new pal a neck.
- 2). Easily make vintage pumpkin decorations to bring the past to life. Purchase basic inexpensive plastic masks with elastic stapled to them that feature vintage characters and animals. Choose from Frankenstein, Dracula, witches and animal faces that are colored with a vintage look in mind. Place the masks on the front of large pumpkins and line your driveway and/or walkway with them.
- 3). Make tasty decorative vintage candy bundles to display and pass out to children by wrapping classic candies together with raffia or ribbon. Choose candies such as Charleston Chew, 5th Avenue, Necco wafers, candy buttons, Chick-O-Sick, Mallo Cup and Sky Bar.
- 4). Make spooky candle features out of antique decorative candelabras. Burn candles long enough to have them melt long wax drips on your candelabras so that your decorations look old and used. Allow a couple of the candles to burn almost all of the way down. Maintain the aged vintage look by adding fake spider webs and dust to the candelabras. Choose candelabras that are black or silver. Select tarnished candelabras if possible.
