My daughter was upset.

We had gone to get the Halloween decorations out of storage (or as my husband calls it: “the money pit”**) and had left the gate code at home. And we wouldn’t have time to retrieve the decorations for a couple days.

We stopped at a drugstore on the way home, and I had an idea. Escewing the double-wide isle full of Halloween decorations in the middle of the store, I spent around a buck for a bag of jumbo-sized cotton balls.
Because, of course, cotton balls are the backbone of Halloween decorations. No, really!

Add a tissue and marker in some eyes, and you have little ghosts. String them together for ghost garlands, or just place them strategically all over the house.

Stretch out cotton balls for spider webs: add to mirrors, mantles, candle sticks, and wherever they will look spooky. If you have any plastic spider rings, bugs, etc you can tangle them in.

Paint or marker them black, and add little legs made out of black paper or twist ties and you have little spiders.

Orange paint and a bit of black marker and you hace mini jack-o-lanterns.

Stretch them over wire and add glitter and you have fairy wings.

Grab some gold paint and pretend you’re Martha Stewart (What would Martha do?)

Make the kids exercise their imagination, and let them do whatever silly craft idea they come up with. Hang it up proudly.

We didn’t get back to the storage unit for over a week, but my daughter didn’t notice, because we had already decorated.

**Storage units are a bad bad bad bad bad idea. Bad for the environment, bad for your wallet. We have plans to not have one anymore by the end of the year. Reduce and reuse! Or, in this case, donate.

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