I really just added the creepy cloth across the front, but it makes all the pictures of our ancestors look kinda scary, right?.
The “body” of the haunted house is made up of full-sized felt pieces spaced out with smaller black rectangles.All pieces were attached with hot glue..
The “real” version has a few details that ours doesn’t, so we tried to add in a few easy details, like the scalloped edging there, to make it feel a little more special..Cutting out the pockets was pretty simple, especially since the “inspiration” model had slightly imperfect looking pockets too.It just makes it look more “haunted”!.
We cut out a few ghosts, pumpkins, and (the piece de resistance!)a little spider, stuck em’ on, and had some instant Halloween fun to hang up anywhere we wanted.. To mimic the different fonts and types of letting and numbering in the inspiration version, we used a mixture of scrap booking stickers and hand-drawn numbers..
Overall, the effect is not too bad!.
The time commitment overall was probably about 2 hours spread out over a few days.. Well worth it I’d say to start a new tradition that just may last for years!.I did one last year and of course it was an instant hit.
Here’s what I put together this year!.Of course, the one my gramma made for me was all nicely wrapped in pretty colorful papers, but this version suits us just fine this year.. Paper lunch bags, folded over and clipped with clothes pins and a little red and green ribbon for cuteness!.
I expected a cheeky remark or two about the plainness of the packaging, but I knew Kennedy wouldn’t care one bit once she got to start finding out what was inside..But you know what?