8. Glowing Eyes

This project is super fun and easy, and can be quite an easy "scary" component to add to your outdoor decorations!  (And best of all, it's cheap!)  All it takes is a little bit of beforehand planning, and that's all!
 
Materials:

• Empty toilet paper or paper towel rolls
• Scissors
• Black marker
• Eye templates (you can find some here and here)
• Some kind of razor
• Glow sticks
• Duct tape
• There is an optional possibility of needing wax paper, but we'll have to see!!
• Optional: colored pencil, or regular pencil, or even a pen

First take your toilet paper rolls (paper towel rolls will need to be cut in half).  You will also want to cut out parts of your template eyes.  If you aren't a visual person, you can use any sort of writing utensil to color in the areas of the template eyes that will have the light shining through them.  Keep in mind that any areas that stretch from top to bottom will need to touch the outside of the eye in order to not get cut all the way out.  Once you have decided which areas of the eyes will need to get cut out in order for the light to shine though, use a pair of scissors to cut those parts out of the template eyes.

After this, you can take each template eye and use the black marker to trace the pattern on to your paper towel or toilet paper rolls.  Again, if you aren't a visual person, you can color them in so you can see which parts will need to be cut out.  Next, using your razor, you can cut those colored pieces out to leave behind the holes that your glow stick light can shine though.  As for the glow sticks, you can usually find tubes of them at Target or a craft store for only a dollar so don't get caught paying five dollars for 10 glow sticks!

To finish this project off, place the glow sticks inside (after cracking them to light up) and put some small pieces over the ends so the light doesn't shine out, and that's it!  Glowing eyes to place in the bushes.  Sometimes, you will be able to see the glow sticks too defined through the toilet paper rolls.  In cases like this, you can take the glow sticks and wrap them in a small piece of wax paper to diffuse the color and no more glow stick pieces looking at you!