1. Focus on spooktacular reading 2. Combine Halloween and science 3. Celebrate your bookish bats! 4. Get batty for your grade 5. Mummify your door 6. Do the Monster Mash 7. Celebrate Ghostbusters 8. Add cute monsters 9. Adorn your door with Frankenstein 10. Showcase your little monsters 11. Celebrate your witchy-y side 12. Incorporate spooky eyes
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How to make Halloween door decorations?
What you will need to make a Halloween wreath
- Natural wreath base
- Craft wire and wire cutters
- Glue gun and glue
- Dried foliage of your choice, including burgundy, red, orange, and brown leaves
- Dried pampas grass and wheat
- Sharp scissors or snips to cut foliage to size
- Decorations such as dried berries or fresh hypericum berries, mini pumpkins, pinecones, or a couple of stems of Chinese lanterns
What are considered the best Halloween decorations?
What’s special about Balsam Hill Halloween decorations?
- Mix Halloween decorations with fall décor. A quick way to bring the Halloween spirit into your home is by embellishing autumn foliage with Halloween-themed decorations such as spiders, cobwebs, or ...
- Display fall pumpkins indoors and outdoors. ...
- Set the mood with lighting
What are some easy to make Halloween decorations?
- Easy Paper Fan DIY Halloween Decorations from Our Little House in the Country
- Front Porch Spiderweb from Lalymom (above)
- Sticky Monster Window from Two-Daloo
- DIY Halloween Window Clings from I Heart Arts & Crafts
- Plastic Bag Ghosts from Lalymom (above) (these would be cute in a not too scary kids haunted house)
How to decorate your fall front door for Halloween?
Decorate the base of your scary Halloween door with a collection of pumpkins in various shapes, sizes, and colors. Each type, carved or not, has its own special character that adds to the overall design. Layer the pumpkins at different levels by laying down wooden crates.
Who Organizes These Competitions?
Any club, group, or staff member can organize a door display contest. In my schools, it is usually a department of teachers or a school club that proposes the contests. For instance, my fellow foreign language teachers and I host the Hispanic Heritage Month contest.
Door Decorating Contest Rules
Before you start emailing your staff about the contest, you need to carefully think out the door decorating contest rules you wish to put into place. Nothing good comes out of running a competition with no clear plan. You need to think out themes and categories, prizes for the door decoration contest winners, etc.
What Are Some Office or School Door Decorating Contest Categories I Can Incorporate?
The sky is the limit, but you do need to be mindful of time of year when choosing your themes or categories. For example, as cute as it might be to come up with a back-to-school door competition, let’s think about how frazzled most teachers and school staff are in the weeks leading up to school and after.
But Everyone is So Busy. When Will We Have Time to Decorate?
This is the BIG question. Do not implement a holiday or themed contest if your workspace cannot provide the time to put in the work. At my schools, we have a period in the day called Advisory. This is about 30 minutes of non-curriculum time, similar to what many schools may call a homeroom.
Ideas for a Hispanic Heritage Month Door Decorating Contest
Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 to October 15. For a Hispanic Heritage Month Door Decorating contest, we encourage our students to stay away from typical stereotypes and try to give a deeper look into Hispanic culture.
Ideas for a Breast Cancer Awareness Month Door Contest
Get your school or office into the swing of supporting the fight against breast cancer. Breast Cancer Awareness Month is during the month of October, which coincides with Hispanic Heritage Month, Halloween, and leads up to El Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead).
Christmas Door Decorating Contest
It isn’t just schools that have a Christmas door decorating contest. A lot of corporations and businesses organize an office Christmas decorating contest.