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Pumpkins and Ghosts and Spiders! Oh My! Halloween Garland

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Dress up your mantle, or any part of your home, with an easy Halloween garland made with yarn, twine, and pipe cleaners.  It is an inexpensive craft project easy enough for kids.

You are going to LOVE this Halloween garland! It is easy to make using yarn, twine, and pipe cleaners. It’s also crazy inexpensive.  This craft is easy enough for even little kids to help make. Just follow the instructions for how to make a yarn pumpkin, yarn ghost, and yarn spider. Make as many as you want and hang on twine to make it into a cute Halloween garland. Use it with Halloween Luminaries on a mantle, table, or ledge to create a fun Halloween mood.

Halloween garland of pumpkins, ghosts and spiders made with yarn

Pumpkins and Ghosts and Spiders! Oh My! Halloween Garland

Yarn Halloween Garland pumpkin with ghost in background

Halloween Garland Materials:

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How to Make a Halloween Garland Directions:

For each of the three shapes (spider, pumpkin, and ghost), you wind yarn around a chair, slide it off, tie it and cut it into your shape.

Spider made with yarn on a Halloween garland.

How to make the Halloween Garland Spider

Black yarn wound around a chair.

To make the spider, one chair wrapping will make 3 spiders. Wrap the black yarn around a chair 75 times, keeping it loose enough so you can slide it off but not so loose that it falls off.

Black yarn used to make a yarn spider wrapped around a chair.

The more you wrap, the thicker and denser the pom will be. Slide the yarn off the chair, keeping the loops separate.

Black yarn tied off in sections.

Next, cut three 14″ pieces of black yarn. TIGHTLY tie the pieces around the black yarn as shown. Double knot each piece. Cut the loop of yarn on the right and left of the center (tied) strand. Cut the looped ends. You will have three spiders.

Black yarn in 3 bundles

When doing this, ensure to KEEP THE TAIL LONG (the part you tied onto the loop to make sections). Hang onto it and trim yarn to create the spider shape.

Now, you make the spider legs using black pipe cleaners. cut two black pipe cleaners in half, giving you four pieces. Place your spider upside down onto a flat surface. Lay your pipe cleaners over your tail and use the tail string to tightly attach the pipe cleaners to the body. Double knot the tail string. Using your fingers, bend the pipe cleaners to resemble legs. You can trim the tail OR use it (if you can) to hang it.

Orange yarn pom pom

How to make the Halloween Garland Pumpkins

Follow steps 1-3 above that you did for the spider, but use the orange yarn only wrap the warn around the chair 150 times. Again, this will make 3 pumpkins. After you trim your pumpkin, following the same method as the spider, you’ll need to add a stem.

To make the pumpkin stem, place the center of a green pipe cleaner across the tail and tie the tail in a double knot to affix the stem. Then, fold the pipe cleaner downward to make a stem and some vines. You can do anything you want here. Keep the tail long to hang or cut it off.

White yarn in 3 bundles made to look like a ghost.

How to make the Halloween Garland Ghosts

Do the same thing you did for the spiders and pumpkins and wrap your yarn around the chair. The ghosts take about 150 loops. Remove the yarn from the chair and cut one end, so you have a long bunch of yarn. Cut that chunk of yarn into thirds.

Now, cut six 14″ pieces of white yarn. Set 3 pieces aside. Tie one piece of yarn tightly around the center of each of the three chunks. Keep the tail separate if you want to use it to hang; otherwise, you can just add it into the mix of ghosts.

Fold the bunch of yarn down the center/in half and smooth the yarn. Tie the remaining yarn near the folded end to make a head. Trim the ghost body as desired.

Ghost, pumpkin, and spider made with yarn and tied to twine.

Put Them All Together as a Garland:

I used a fishing line to hang the garland pieces onto twine. For the spider, tie the line onto one of the strands on the top of his head. For the pumpkin, weave the fishing line through the stem to hang. And for the ghost, weave a piece of fishing line through the top of the head to hang. If you still have your tails, you can easily use those to tie them onto the garland.

Keep the trio loose. A simple slip knot around the garland will work well; that way, you can space it even once you have it hung.

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Mantle decorated for Halloween with yarn garland.

Pair the garland with our Keep Calm and Scare On a project to create an adorable, inexpensive Halloween display for your home.

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  2. shannon says

    Hello! I am trying to get materials to make these in the classroom for 33 kids. Do you have an estimate on how much yarn for each item? Thanks much!

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  4. Brenda says

    Since my best friend’s daughter was born on Halloween, it’s a huge family party! This will be an excellent addition – THANK YOU! How cute and clever of you.

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  5. Debra Kozlick says

    I run the “Yarning For A Cause” club at the High School where I work in Illinois. This was a quick and great project for the kids to work on for themselves! Great project! Thanks ~ DJ Koz

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  7. Kaitlin D says

    So glad I didn’t become a pinterest fail on this! I had zero confidence in this, yet it turned out great! So cute, so easy and incredibly affordable! Thank you for sharing your talent and creativity!

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  8. Emmie says

    This was so much fun to make! Thanks for sharing. I am recovering from surgery and made 3 sets while sitting in my chair. I think I will add a bow or maybe string a few small poms (white, yellow and orange like candy corn) between each of the Pom figures. Or I may just copy your example – it’s so cute as is!

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  10. Haley says

    I just made this today. It takes a lot longer than I thought because each item requires a lot of trimming after making it! I did make 2 garlands at once so it made for quite a bit more work. It came out very cute! I used twine instead of fishing line for the loops. If I had the change the instructions at all, I would use less white yarn for the ghosts. My ghosts ended up looking fat and uneven- just too much yarn. Maybe 100 or 125 times around the chair rather than 150. Thanks for sharing this.

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  14. Nicole says

    Your little yarn ghosties and pumpkins and spiders are adorable! What a great garland for Halloween. Pinned so I can make it one of these years. #HomeMattersParty

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  20. Theresa says

    I love this garland! I have fond memories of making those yarn ball creatures in childhood and trimming their ‘hair.’ I love that you used the concept to make an adorable themed garland.

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      • Keri Casler says

        I love this! I used to draw the kids I babysat copied enlarged pics of super heros from their comic books. They’d wake up the next day to a pencil drawing with a note from me. I probably should have been doing my homework, but it was way more fun to do that. Pom poms would have been a great thing to do if i knew how back then! Now I make pom poms with my after school students and they love it! Creatures, flowers, animals all made with pom poms. Love it!

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  21. Mandee Thomas says

    I love making yarn pom poms! This garland it just too cute. Pinned! I wanted to let you know that I’m featuring this post tonight at the Create & Share Link Party (7:00 PM MST)! Congratulations!!! Can’t wait to see what you share with us this week. 🙂

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  23. Diana says

    What a fun project! Just wanted to tell you that I featured it in our party this week and I will be pinning and sharing on my Facebook page this coming week. 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend! XO

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  24. Valerie says

    This is just about the cutest thing ever! Thanks for linking up to The Handmade Hangout! I’ll be featuring this on my blog when the new linky goes live today (Thurs) at 6pm ET. Hope you’ll stop by to see your feature and link up again!

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  26. Lou Lou Girls says

    Cute! Pinned and tweeted. We truly appreciate you taking the time to be a part of our party. Please stop by and party with us again. The party starts Monday at 7 pm and ends on Friday at 7 pm. Happy Monday! Lou Lou Girls

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  31. Jill says

    Hi there
    Just stopped by to let you know that I featured this on my Saturday Spotlight post this week!

    Thanks again for linking up! Hope you have a great weekend!
    Jill @ Creating my way to Success

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  35. Sarah R. says

    This is CRAZY adorable- of course, I could never have this in our house because it would be too tempting for the kitties. 😉 But I can definitely admire yours from afar. Thanks for coming by the 100th Snickerdoodle Sunday- hope you entered our Amazon Gift Card contest!! And please come back this weekend with your latest makes & bakes.

    Sarah (Sadie Seasongoods)

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  39. Erlene says

    Oh my goodness this is too too cute! I can totally see me doing this with my teen dd. Pinned. I hope you can join us on the Spooktacular Halloween Party and share some of your Halloween crafts.

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  41. Lisa says

    This is so cute…my daughters would love it and it would definitely get us in the Halloween spirit! Thanks so much for sharing at Share The Wealth Sunday!
    xoxo
    Lisa

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  43. Cheryl says

    This is super cute. I’d love to feature this next week, but can’t find Craftastic Monday on your link parties page. If you could add it, just let me know, so I can showcase your post. Thanks for sharing this at the Craftastic Monday Link Party at Sew Can Do!

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