How To Make A Spooky Garden Craft

From Pinecrest Gardens:

October 29, 2020

Halloween is upon us!!

As it is my favorite holiday, I thought it would be fun to share an easy at-home craft that combines my love for gardening and Halloween. So, this week I'm bringing you a spooky garden craft that is sure to scare!

Materials

- 1 large tree cookie (you can get these at your local craft store, or even Walmart carries them).

- Sheet moss, reindeer moss, coconut husk, or a mixture of whatever moss tickles your fancy (I used a mixture of two colored green reindeer moss, and coconut husk).

- Glue: E6000 or hot glue work wonderfully.

- Battery operated lights in the color of your choice (I used purple).

- Small Halloween themed elements, like spiders, eyeballs, skeleton bones, whatever you like, as long as they are small enough to glue, they should work.

How to make:

To make this spooky garden craft, you should first assemble the materials and lay them out in the way you plan to design your craft. My tree cookie was an odd shape, so I chose the widest part of the cookie to focus the design on.

1. First, you should start with wrapping the lights around the tree cookie. I wrapped the string lights about 3 times over, criss crossing as I wrapped. This first cross of the lights will allow for small spaces to tuck in the moss. The lights I used were 15.75ft, 1 set and battery operated. They were $7.99 from Michaels.

2. Now you can begin tucking in your different colored mosses into the lights, and all over the bottom of your tree cookie. Glue pieces as you go, and alternate colors of moss for some visual depth.

3. Continuing gluing mosses, and wrap a few more layers of lights. The lights will help hold the moss, but if you don't like the look of the wire on the mosses, you can use the moss to gently cover up the wire.

4. After you've got most of your moss and lights arranged how you like, you can add in your Halloween elements! In my craft, I used plastic bones, hands and skulls. I think plastic eyeballs or spiders would be....a scream! Secure your Halloween pieces with glue.

5. For the finishing touches, you can clip any stray pieces of moss to clean up the design. I just use scissors to cut some wild pieces from the edges.

6. Turn on your lights, and enjoy your spooky garden craft!

You may notice that the battery back is awkward and hanging from the back of your craft. To deal with that, you can either sit the craft up against a wall or shelf, hiding the battery pack behind it, or, for more permanent solution, you can get some heavy duty foam or double sided tape and tape the back to the back. You could also attach a hook and hang it, totally up to you. Since I plan to just lean mine up against my bookshelf, I didn't feel the need to attach the battery pack.

Happy haunting... I mean digging!

This press release was produced by the Pinecrest Gardens. The views expressed are the author's own.