{"id":22677,"date":"2014-10-09T05:27:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T10:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22677"},"modified":"2014-10-09T12:29:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T17:29:16","slug":"monster-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=22677","title":{"rendered":"Monster Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/monsterdoor-238x300.png\" alt=\"Monster Door\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Last Halloween the lifestyle webzine goodtoknow had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodtoknow.co.uk\/family\/galleries\/35015\/monster-doors\">&#8220;monster door&#8221; decorating contest<\/a> using materials like party streamers and paper plates.  The project is super-simple&#8211;it&#8217;d be a great activity for kids&#8211;and adds a little whimsy to your exterior.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the design submissions were pretty similar: Crepe-paper streamers for hair, paper plate eyes, and the mouth, eyebrows, and other details made with tape (the type of tape isn&#8217;t specified, but you&#8217;d want to use painter&#8217;s tape or something else that&#8217;s easy to remove lest it peel the paint off your door).  A couple of them were a little more creative: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodtoknow.co.uk\/family\/galleries\/35015\/monster-doors\/6\">This<\/a> polka-dotted critter with horns is cute, and I particularly liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodtoknow.co.uk\/family\/galleries\/35015\/monster-doors\/11\">this<\/a> three-eyed monster; covering the whole door with brown paper and letting the red-painted wood represent the mouth is a great idea.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get a little more creative, there are plenty of other ideas floating around the ol&#8217; intertubes.  <a href=\"http:\/\/honeyandfitz.com\/2011\/10\/27\/diy-halloween-front-door-mummy\/\">This<\/a> crepe paper-mummified door is cute and could hardly be less expensive.  I also like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyou.com\/budget-home\/crafts\/halloween-door\">this<\/a> fur-covered door with scowly eyes, with the caveat that it&#8217;d be more costly&#8211;faux fur ain&#8217;t cheap&#8211;and would take a bit more work to put up.  On the plus side, it could be stored and reused.<\/p>\n<p>For a somewhat more restrained decoration, I&#8217;m quite taken with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countryliving.com\/crafts\/projects\/outdoor-halloween-decorations?click=main_sr#slide-8\">this<\/a> flock of bats scattered across the front of the house.  The description says that they&#8217;re made of felt, but they could just as easily be made of construction paper.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in a block-party sort of neighborhood, it&#8217;d be fun to challenge your neighbors to a door-decorating contest.  Trick-or-treaters would certainly be impressed to come upon a whole street full of monstrous doors.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via Janice)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Halloween the lifestyle webzine goodtoknow had a &#8220;monster door&#8221; decorating contest using materials like party streamers and paper plates. The project is super-simple&#8211;it&#8217;d be a great activity for kids&#8211;and adds a little whimsy to your exterior. Many of the design submissions were pretty similar: Crepe-paper streamers for hair, paper plate eyes, and the mouth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23325,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22677\/revisions\/23325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}