Halloween Crafts: Halloween Wind Sock

If you live in an area where it is going to be windy this Halloween, you may enjoy making this Halloween wind sock to decorate your porch and greet trick-or-treaters.

To make your Halloween wind sock you will need a six inch by eighteen inch strip of construction paper. To get that length you will probably need to tape or staple two sheets together to make it long enough. If you are using tape, be sure to use strong high quality tape that won't let loose when the wind picks up.

Lay your strip of construction paper out on a flat surface so that you can decorate it. Depending on your skill and ability you can decorate your Halloween wind sock by drawing directly on it, or glue cutouts onto it or, attach pre-made stickers to it. Remember there are no wrong designs! Have fun with it and be creative.

Once any decorations you have added to your wind sock have had a chance to dry, curl your strip of paper around so that the two ends overlap by about an inch and then, using your tape or staples, attach it securely. Now you should have a cylinder shape that's open at both ends.

On the bottom section of your Halloween wind sock you will need to attach streamers to blow in the wind. You can use lengths of crepe paper, which comes on a spool, or you can cut tissue paper in to strips about an inch wide by about eighteen inches long. You will need around a dozen strips to attach to the bottom of your wind sock. Put a bit of glue to the bottom of each streamer and attach it to the inside bottom of your construction cylinder.

On the top edge of your construction paper cylinder punch a hole on one side and another hole directly across from it. To make them extra secure put a piece of strong tape over the area you are going to punch before you punch through it. This will keep it from tearing through later when the wind picks up. Take a length of yarn about a yard long and tie one end through each of those two holes. This will give you a loop that you can use to hang your Halloween wind sock from.

Give your Halloween wind sock a chance to dry completely, and then you are ready to go hang it up. You can hang it from the edge of your porch or from a tree in your yard. If the outside weather is likely to damage your Halloween wind sock you can even hang it inside instead. Attach it to one of the air vents in your ceiling and it will blow every time the air comes on.

Happy Halloween!

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