After you have all the Halloween decorations in place this year, and you’re down to the small details, it’s fun to create a Halloween terrarium to spook guests who happen to look over on one of your shelves or a table. When they see a spooky jar terrarium you’ve made, they’ll want to run. Make several different ones and place them around the house to create eerie accents for your Halloween party or just to decorate for the season.
Use a baby food jar or a larger glass jar. Options include a mayonnaise jar, olive jar, or even a honey jar. Clean the jar and remove the label completely. Hot, soapy water, when you soak the jars overnight, will usually work to remove the label, but you can purchase a label-removal product if you simply can’t get it off.
Find a twig in your backyard and use it in the terrarium. The stick should be at least a little shorter than the jar itself. The perfect stick will have a few twigs which protrude from the main stick. Theses can be trimmed down to size in order to fit them into the jar. Use hot glue to attach the twig to the inside of the jar lid. Then, decide how you want the Halloween terrarium to look.
Glue on plastic bugs, miniature bats, rubber snakes, or something similar. Make sure that the items you glue to the stick – as well as the stick itself – will fit back inside the opening of the jar. Use spray paint to paint everything all black, all gray, or all white, including the stick.
When the paint is dry you can then glue moss to the inside of the lid, around the stick. You can also glue tiny pumpkins – also painted – to the moss. The moss, however, should remain green. Carefully slide the branch and its attachments into the jar. Screw on the lid and set the Halloween terrarium anywhere in your house.
There are many things you can use to make the spooky terrarium. Paint a miniature craft bird, put in some plastic spiders, or even cover the branch with cobwebs. You can also use the cobwebs to decorate the outside of the jar.
The Halloween terrariums might be small but, once someone notices one of them, they’ll shriek in horror. Okay, they probably won’t shriek, but they’ll definitely find the little terrariums spooky and ideal as a Halloween oddity.