Halloween Eyeball Wreath

Halloween is one of the most decorated holidays; people spend millions to dress up their homes – and themselves – for the strange holiday. Anything goes, too. From cobwebs, to skeletons, to vegetables with strange faces, the goal is to buy or create the eeriest decorations for your home. Some decorations you buy or make are chintzy and don’t hold up, but they’re still fun to put up on Halloween. This year, though, why not make a decoration that will last for many years. After all, there will be many Halloweens to come. An eyeball wreath isn’t hard to make and, once it’s finished, you’ll have a door decoration you can use year after year.

Shop at a dollar-theme store or another place to buy novelty eyeballs. They’re sold at many stores during the Halloween holiday and they’re not expensive. They generally come in a bag of several for a buck or two. Of course, you’ll need quite a few to make a wreath. In addition to the eyeballs you’ll need a Styrofoam wreath form. These are found at any craft store and they’re not expensive.

Some types of novelty eyeballs can simply be glued onto the wreath form. For these, start inside the ring, and make rows of the eyeballs, using hot glue to secure them. Move to the front of the ring, and then the outside, to finish. Glue the eyeballs on so that they’re butted together and so that they’re in nice, neat rows.

For jelly-type eyeballs you might find it creates a more secure eyeball wreath if you use straight pins. For each eyeball, poke a hole in the bottom of it with a pin, then put the head of the pin in the hole. Use a thimble and push the eyeball further onto the pin, and push the pin into the wreath. Cover the whole wreath with the eyeballs.

A bow can be added to the wreath, if you want, by simply using a straight pin or two to attach it. On the backside, use a peel-n-stick picture hanger to hang the wreath. Or, make a hole in the back and use it for hanging the wreath on a nail. The wreath is squishy, eerie, and lots of fun to make. Hang it on the door, year after year, and check out the looks on the faces of your visitors when they see it.
Eyeball Wreath


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