Materials needed for this project:
Garland Templates or Silhouettes (links below)
A Printer
Cardstock
Scissors
Xacto Knife (optional)
A Needle and Thread
Thoughts of creating a Halloween garland were swirling in my mind for months, and this is the result of my experimentation. The garland is made of four spooky cute illustrations, and the one pictured was created the first way, which involves cutting templates, tracing them onto black cardstock, and cutting the shapes out with scissors and an Xacto.
However, I got to thinking that not everyone may have the time to make the garland this way, as it is somewhat more time intensive. I also thought that it may be more difficult for young children to take part in cutting out the shapes if you made the garland using templates. With these things in mind, I made a second version of the garland. Just print the silhouettes onto cardstock or heavy paper and cut on the dotted lines. Thread the shapes onto your choice of hanging material, and you’re good to go!
These spooky silhouettes can also be used as gift tags or hang tags, treat bag decorations or, if you have a white or metallic paint pen, you can make them into name tags.
This is a shot of the threading process. I used black sewing thread and a needle and sewed up through the right side of the shape, sewing a second hole down through the left of the shape, and coming out the left side. This allowed me to slide the shapes over to the right as I threaded them onto the garland. The two hole “technique” allows for easy re-positioning, but it holds the shapes in place nicely, too. After all of the shapes are threaded, hang your garland on a wall or wherever, and enjoy!
Download the outlines here: Halloween Garland Template Outlines (PDF 16Kb)
Download the silhouettes here: Halloween Garland Silhouette Cutouts (PDF 15Kb)
Preview of the silhouettes, shown at about 60% of their original size.
images from Paper Crave
Hello,
These Halloween silhouettes are great!
~ Gabriela ~
Wouuu ! I love them ! For sure I’m gonna do one for my office
Sooooo cute! I love love love them and can’t wait to put up our own garland…thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much, Gabriela, Mangolyne, and Kira! I’m happy that you like them.
I *LOVE* this! It’s the best banner I’ve seen all year!!! I’ll be linking to this!
Aww, thanks Rachel!
Love your Halloween garland, got this link via Folding Trees. Thanks for sharing
This is so cute & simple! I am so excited to make this!
These are amazing!!! the little characters are so cute! This is my task for tomorrow for sure!
Nyaaappi! So cute) Thank you!
I absolutely love these. I was looking for something simple and sweet for my child’s halloween class party this year and these really hit the mark. I pasted the silhouettes onto multiple sheets of card stock (using clothes pegs to hold all the layers in place) and cut through them. I also used a circle punch for the eyes (one was a craft circle punch and the other was a regular single hole punch). This was much less time consuming for me and I was able to finish 13 trick or treat bag (with three characters each) in a few hours. I also added my own characters to add more variety. I will send you some pics once I’ve finished filling them. Thanks for such a great site!
These are fabulous! I made them the other day, you can see them here http://bit.ly/bm6F9s
These are great. I cut them out with my cricut and made a bunch for our party. Thanks for making them.
Thank you. I love the garland !!!
Shared it on my blog today and linked back to you
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Brilliant. Thank you so much for the download
They are so cute ! I will try them Thank you.
Found this on pinterest and made them with my kids this weekend. We dazzled them up with some glitter and paint. Great project. Thanks.
Merciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!…. J’adore!….
Thanks! That was such a fun fall break activity for my kids!