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Outdoor Thanksgiving Decorations
Thanksgiving is a festival of prayers, food and fun. Thanksgiving is celebrated with offering Thanksgiving prayers followed by Thanksgiving feast, apart from a host of other fun-filled thanksgiving activities like making crafts and decorating homes.
Thanksgiving gives everybody a chance to unleash their creativities and imaginations to aesthetically decorate their homes. Thanksgiving home decorations involve decorating the indoors as well as outdoors.
Outdoor Thanksgiving decorations impart a colorful festive mood the house, giving a warm Thanksgiving welcome to the guest. Outdoor Thanksgiving decorations include decorating the lawn/yard, the main entrance, the pathway, the door etc.
Let us have a look at some interesting ideas that will help you decorate outdoors on Thanksgiving.
Ideas For Outdoor Thanksgiving Decoration
Thanksgiving Wreath - To Be Placed On Front Door
You need:
- Grapevine wreath
- Glue
- Glue gun
- Ribbon
- Wood
- Pine cones - small to medium in size
- Plastic or cloth pumpkins (various sizes)
- Stuffed animal - bear etc. that has fall colors
- Flowers (these are little bunches of assorted cloth sunflowers)
- Indian corn - plastic corn preferred
Directions:
- Begin with the grapevine wreath. Put the bear on the wreath.
- Glue a three by two inch piece of wood onto the wreath to secure the bear on the wreath.
- Make a small slit in the material of the bear and slip it inside the material. Now the bear will not fall off of the wreath.
- Glue all pumpkins onto the wreath. Keep about three inches spacing between them.
- Glue the Indian corn onto the wreath.
- Glue the pine cones onto the wreath.
- Place the small bunches of sun flowers all around the wreath in the empty spaces.
- With a ribbon and make a big beautiful bow. Leave the ends hanging down and make a v shape cut into the ends.
- Put a spot of glue the size of a dime in the very middle of the back of the bow and place it at the top of your wreath.
- Place it on your front door to greet all of your Thanksgiving guests.
Home Made Scare Crow
You need:
- An Old shirt
- A pair of Jeans
- A white pillow cover
- An Old hat
Directions:
- Button-up the shirt
- Stitch the shirt with jeans at the waist.
- Stuff the clothing with some hay.
- Stuff a head using pillow cover and some hay.
- Add a hat and draw a face with marker.
- Place your scare crow on front steps or have him sit on one of those bales of hay.
Mums
Mums are affordable plants that grow well in cool fall winter. They look very good as Thanksgiving yard decorations.
Old Straw Hat
Old straw hat can be hanged on your front door using push pins. The hat can be decorated using fake fall colored flowers. You can also tie a ribbon around the hat. All these things are easily available in the market at very reasonable prices.
Old Leather Boots
Old leather boots can creatively be worked with. You can plant your mums and other fall plants in these boots. To add to the fun, keep them near the scare crow that is without any shoes on.
Gourds
Gourds can be planted in your garden and prove to be very cheap. Alternatively you can buy them from local farmers market. Gourds can be lined up the steps in place of the potted plants. They do not need much watering and lasts long.
Fall Leaf Garlands
Fall leaf garlands can be made by stringing fall leaves together and hanging the garland on your entrance door frame or any other place you desire.
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