Fun Outdoor Halloween Decoration

We have two large trees in our front yard and for years I have strung a giant spiderweb between them for a Halloween decoration. If you don't have trees that are accommodatingly placed, the top of the web can be attached to the eaves of your house, but if you do it this way, the shape would be more rectangular. Any kind of thin rope will work. Each year when I take the web down, I loosely tie together the long tails that wrap around each tree; the next year, I don't have to start from scratch and the web isn't in a tangled mess(it took me a few years to figure out this trick). Please don't look at the patchy grass in these photos - we have wonderful, huge shade trees, but they are murder (literally) on bermuda grass and our Oklahoma heat makes growing shade grass a challenge.  My poor husband is constantly fighting this losing battle - the elements always win.

To make your web: tie four lengths of rope between the two trees, then tie five pieces of rope to the middle of the rope at the top. Each of these five pieces will radiate out to form the downward spokes of the web. Tie each one around the horizontal ropes as it goes down. Make a loop at the end of each of the radiating pieces and slip a metal stake (I use a coat hanger snipped into shorter lengths and bent into a crook at one end) through the loop and into the ground to anchor it. Then, cut long pieces of rope and, starting at the top horizontal piece, tie it to each line you pass, making the third layer on the web. Add a large, plastic spider (mine has an elastic loop that I use to attach it to the web) and you have a cool outdoor Halloween decoration. Happy haunting!!