10. Illuminated Ghost Garland

For today's entry towards the countdown to Halloween, we will learn how to make illuminated ghost garlands!! These are a really fun way to spruce up a string of small lantern lights and make them Halloween festive!

Materials:

• Strand of white lantern lights
• White cotton fabric (about 2 square yards)
• Write string (easy to find at craft stores; thread may work as well)
• Scissors
• Black marker or sharpie

Begin by cutting the fabric into 14 inch squares, one for each of the lanterns in your strand.  After this, take each square and make a valley fold (line up one corner with the corner on the opposite side).  This should form a triangle shape.  Folding in half again should give you another triangle shape with one of the tips being the center of your square.  Cut off that tip of the triangle in order to make a small hole in the center of your square fabric.  Repeat with each of your squares.

Carefully remove a lantern from its light, and slide the light though the hole in your fabric square.  Once you replace the lantern, it's a simple matter of bringing the fabric over the lantern and tying the string underneath in order to form the ghost shape. (Again, make sure to repeat for each of the lanterns in your strand.)

Finish by using your black marker to draw a ghostly face on it and voila!!  A super easy strand of ghost garland completed!  Hang these cute decorations inside or out, either way, it makes a fun decoration that can be enjoyed in the day time or the night. 

Come back in just two more short days to enjoy number nine in our countdown to Halloween: Yarn Spiderwebs!!  Wow, we'll be at number nine already, how time does fly!  Be sure to begin gathering some materials for Halloween!