Halloween Tree

Ok, here is a little more holiday decorating for you all! I do so enjoy the holidays, even moreso since I became a mama. So when a holiday arrives, we really try to have fun with watching seasonal movies, enjoying fun foods and making decorations. And really people, nothing says holiday like a tree, am I right?

The Halloween tree is a project that I first saw years ago in a Martha Stewart catalogue. All that you need for this is a tree branch that might have fallen in your own back yard + ahem, some spraypaint. When we first started having a Halloween tree, years ago, our tree branches were on the smaller side since we did not have many decorations. However, as the years went on and I found decorations in a variety of random places, our branches needed to be bigger. Finding our "tree" actually became a tradition in itself and each year the Monks will remind me of the year I randomly pulled over to the side of the road as I drove home from soccer practice to pick up a tree brach that had fallen. The kids were hysterical as I crammed this giant branch into the trunk of my mama suv while the traffic passed on by. This is our third year using this branch, as it really was a great size and shape.

{Monk + Fif, circa 2009}

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To make one of these yourself, you will need some black spray paint for your tree branch, {I used the remaining black paint for the terracotta pot that the branch would be placed in}. To hold the branch secure inside the pot, we used some of the green foam block that is typically used in floral arrangements...and a couple of bricks, depending on how large your tree is! Then we covered the base of our tree in spooky looking green spanish moss. And there you have it, a ghostly Halloween tree.
xo.