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	How to Decorate With Alien Cocoons for Halloween

If you are looking for a change from the daily designs for Haloween, this is a change that you can incorporate without incurring any major costs.

Steps

1. Prepare a backdrop for your lair, unless your walls look quite eerie by their look. Lay out a roll of dark paper or fabric big enough to cover your space, and spray-paint them to give dimension and color of your choice.

2. Cut and hang the backdrop, like wallpapering, only not as accurate or strong. Measure the height of your walls and cut sheets 3 or 4 inches longer from your prepared paper or cloth. Fix them to the wall with duct tape (rolled to be two-sided), black thumbtacks, carpentry staples, cord and hooks, or any way such that they remain fixed. Use the left over paper to cover your ceiling and any empty patches.

3. Design the cocoons. Unpack and extend a rope of spiderweb, as per the instructions on the bag. Hang most of the length in the place where it will remain undisturbed. Keep it steady by tying it to a hook or asking a helper to hold it, some feet away from the free end. Fan out the free web till it is 1/2 feet wide. Blow up a balloon, or stuff and wrap shut a bag, and tie it evenly in the fanned cobweb. Cut the cobweb with the scissors and twirl it on the top of the bag or balloon to gently fix it, so it has a tail of web on the same side as the bag's handles or the knot of the balloon. Repeat with the other balloons or bags, till you have a big cluster of web-covered globules to hang in every nook of your entryway. Keep a bag of web spare.

4. Colour the cocoons. Apply layers of gray, black, and any other colors you want on them to mask the print on the grocery bags or the surface of the balloons, mild the white webbing, etc.

5. Tie the cocoons in clusters from the ceiling. Tie them by their tails using tape, carpentry staples, or anything else appropriate for your ceiling, keeping the bigger ones at the back and hiding any Albertsons logos that might be visible. Let them cluster up and stand against one-another.

6. Repaint the cocoons, unless you have installed a backdrop previously. Deepen the shadows, mask flaws, spray the tails to merge into the backdrop, etc.

7. Add a last layer of web. Uncoil and stretch your final bag of web, break a big piece and distribute it evenly all across a cluster, strengthening the cocoons and further hiding them in mystery. Do the same for other clusters, distribute the other web decoratively around the front of the door or any other place you can think of. Spray paint the webbing covering the clusters so it merges into the walls and doesn't look very stark white.

8. Remove the scraps, check the display from afar, and include anything else lying around that you think might fit.

Tips

· Balloons are lighter and have better shape than stuffed bags, but dark ones are quite rare.
· To hang heavy stuff like skeletons, hang them with string and hide the string with web.
· Open your screen door and observe the path it swings along; keep your cocoon clusters away from it.
· If the tails of the cocoons go on stretching, attach a string directly to the bag handles or balloon tip and hang them with it.

Warnings

· Look out for fire hazards. With lot of paint-soaked webbing floating around, keep the jackolanterns far away.
· Tacks, staples, and nails will harm your walls and ceiling. Take permission and use them judiciously.
· If there is a porch light in your ceiling, drill a hole in the backdrop so it doesn't burn leading to one.
· A high wind will rip apart this display.
· Spray paint harms your lungs etc. along with your clothes, floor, door, and all other exposed surface near your working area. Use a drop cloth.

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