This year we were assigned in the clinic to decorate the area with a Halloween meets superhero theme. I had my hopes up a month to several weeks prior and I was very much eager to start Halloween preparations but we only got the go signal to do it 2 days before Halloween. Still, I tried to give my best effort with the little time we had. I had asked for so much art materials but ended up using only a few items since I really lacked the time to do it. I’ll walk you through the process of creating our decorations and hope that you pick up a thing or two that you could try in the future. By the way, most of the decors here were inspired by various arts and crafts ideas from the internet and I am just sharing how we all made it possible and combined different elements to create our design.
- Bats on the wall– these were cut out bats that my co-workers got from the internet. It was a great idea that they chose different sized bats with varying shapes which made the decoration more interesting instead of plain some of the paper used where folding so it also made the illusion that the bats were flapping their wings and they were arranged in such a way that it frames our television.
- City Skyline Backdrop– this is very simple to make and all you need is a thick cardboard, a ruler, a pencil, a glue, and some colored paper. At first, I drew with a ruler an imaginary skyline kinda like that of the skyline in Batman where people would beam out his logo so he could get to them and know their location. After drawing the skyline we cut it out and stuck small squares to serve as windows of the buildings.
- Superhero beams– this one is easy. we just printed out logos of different superheroes and glued them to a piece of paper shaped into a light beam. Then we randomly stuck them on the skyline just like that in batman. We also added comic book sounds like BAAM!, POOP!, ARGGH! on the black backdrop so it gives the illusion that the superheroes are already in the city fighting off bad guys.
- Trick or Treat- We then cut out the letters from a comic book type picture from the internet to form the words. However, I guess I made the wrong color combination in the background cardboard we used because instead of the letters standing out it became so much harder to read. My bad 😛
- Scary balloons- We just used regular white party balloons here and blew air into them. They served as scary ghosts in the decor since we were asked not to make the decor too scary for the children so this was how answered that specification. I used a permanent marker to draw the scary faces, eyeball, and monster cat on the balloon and the marker dried up really fast and was very easy to use. They are super easy to do and requires little to no imagination at all. We stuck them to the wall using a regular scotch tape.
- Superhero mask- I downloaded several free masks on the internet and printed them out on regular paper after which we stuck them to cardboard using glue and placed a stick so children can hold and use them for picture taking. There are many awesome masks on the internet that would ask for payment for the images so just be diligent in looking for free and high-quality photos.
- Ghost stool- This one is a very resourceful and a witty idea made by my co-worker. Here he just laid a plain white cloth on a stool and then stuck blackened pieces of paper to create the face along with a crafted ribbon on the side to make the ghost cuter. 😉
Hope you got a thing or two from our simple Halloween decor. I don’t get to see the children enjoying our decorations because I am always busy consulting patients but it really makes me happy hearing from the inside their cute laughter making them forget they were sick in the first place. I hope to create other decors this coming Christmas and New year. I will definitely be posting that too here in my blog.
Happy Halloween! Pray for you dearly departed relatives!
Love,
Arenbi
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