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Spooktacular Plant Stakes
A project by inspiredfriend Cari Kraft



Supplies
PDF printout of hand x-ray and/or vampire bat
heavy white card stock or matte photo paper
scissors
brown inkpad
glue stick
bamboo skewer (found in the grocery store)
florists wire or other thin wire

For Both
Print out PDF's for three different sizes of spooky plant accents.
Bat PDF
Hands PDF
Cut out sizes of hand or bat that looks best with your plant.

For Hand
Glue opposite sides of hand together so it is double sided. Age edges of both printed sides with brown ink pad. Cut a bamboo skewer down, it depends on how deep and dense the foliage on your plant is but for the hand you want it to look like it is reaching out of the plant. Then slice a slit through the top of the skewer and wiggle it open enough to slid the bottom of the hand into the slit. Adjust the hand deeper into the slit and tuck the skewer into the soil of your houseplant. AAAccckk!!! Who is buried in the Baby's Tears?!?!?!






For Bat
Ink the edges of both printed sides with brown ink. Take 10 inch piece of wire and wrap it around a three inch piece of skewer to make a spring. Leave an inch tail at the beginning to sandwich between the two side of the bat cut out. Slide the spring slowly off the skewer, about two thirds off. Now your bat is on a spring. Poke skewer into the dirt of your plant. Arrange leaves to hide the skewer. Stretch the spring out gently so your bat wobbles a bit around in the air. Now cover your hair!!!!!