Make Halloween Ornaments from Corks – Free Template

Don’t throw away those champagne corks, make cute ghost and bat Halloween ornaments out of them!

I was gifted a big bag of corks and champagne corks and the rest of the supplies for this craft came from Dollar Tree.

By the way, I love wine corks. You can make so many things out of them! So far, I’ve used them to make a beautiful Wine Cork Tray, Cork Sailboats for Summer, and Lucky Wine Cork Gnomes for St. Patty’s Day.

These ornaments were really easy to make and they came out so cute. I kept a few for myself and I put the other ones I made around wine bottles to give as Halloween party gifts.

If you’d like to make this simple Halloween craft, grab your hot glue gun, acrylic paint and a few other supplies list below and I’ll show you how to make them.

Supplies

• Corks
• White and black acrylic paint
• A medium paintbrush (to paint corks)
• A fine paintbrush (to paint eyes)
• White fabric scraps for ghosts (I used an old polyester t-shirt)
• 2-inch (or wider) wire ribbon (I’m using burlap ribbon that I spray painted black)
• Black felt (for bat ears)
• Flat white thumbtacks (or paint thumb tacks white)
• Small picture hanging screw eyes
• Scissors
• Stickpins
• Hot glue gun
• Batwings Template

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How To Make Halloween Ornaments From Corks

Painting and Prep – Start by twisting a screw eye into the top of each cork. Paint your corks white (to make ghosts) and black (to make bats). I also painted the screw eyes at the end because they were too bright shiny gold.

Bat Ornament Instructions

Download and print the Batwings Template from the Supplies List above. Use stick pins to hold the batwing template in place and align the template along the top of the 2-inch wire ribbon.

You can use a wider ribbon but it needs to be a wire ribbon. The top wire of the ribbon is what gives the wings shape.

NOTE: I had brown wire ribbon that I just spray painted black so that is an option if you don’t have black. I actually think this worked better to hold the ribbon shape and stop fraying at the bottom.

Next hot glue the bat wings onto the black cork by folding each wing over 1/4-inch and hot glue from top to bottom. Bend the wings a little like an accordion (shown below) to position them. Last hot glue felt on for bat ears!

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Ghost Ornament Instructions

You will need six or seven 4-inch squares of white fabric to make one ghost.

Use flat thumb tacks and tack the fabric at the corner all the way around the cork. If you don’t have white tacks, you can paint them white with acrylic paint like I did below.

Paint eyes on with acrylic paint and a fine brush to finish, then hang them up and enjoy!

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MORE fALL CRAFTS TO TRY:

• Easy DIY Potion Bottles for Halloween – Free Labels
• Paper Plate Mummies
• DIY Tinsel Spider Wreath
• 15 Fall Tiered Tray Decor Ideas – Easy DIYs

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Watch A Video

Link to the full tutorial here –> Easy Sew Ghost Plushie – Free Pattern

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