Tomato Cage Ghosts – A NO-FAIL DIY Halloween decor

July 29, 2018

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Tomato Cage Ghosts are a super easy Halloween decoration. You only need 4 materials and 10 minutes for this no fail DIY Halloween decor!

Tomato Cage Ghosts for Halloween! Such an easy DIY Halloween Decoration! This was one of my very first Pinterest inspired projects! We love all things Halloween, but especially our Halloween Spider Cookies, Oreo Witch Hat Cookies and we cannot forget our edible Frankenstein Bowls (made from a balloon mold!)

This project is crazy easy, inexpensive to make and super cute!

How to make your own Tomato Cage Halloween Ghosts!

Tomato Cage Halloween Ghosts are my favorite DIY Halloween decoration. WHY? because it is super easy, you only need 4 things and it takes less than 15 minutes to make!

This was one of my very first Pinterest inspired projects! I was over-the-moon SUPER proud, I must have posted it on Facebook fifteen times!

I also have some fabulous Halloween Desserts and treats to share! Looking for another easy Halloween craft or decoration – our Halloween Witches Cauldron is always a neighborhood favorite for our little trick or treaters!

But back to our tomato cage ghosts. …Let’s just say that I am not really the Martha Stewart type. I love to craft, but a lot of times they are total Pinterest fails. Well, not with this easy DIY Halloween craft – this was a total PINTEREST WIN!

This Halloween project is crazy easy, cheap and super cute! Not to mention, your neighbors will love it! Whenever I put it out, I get tons of questions on how to make their own Tomato Cage Ghost!!

Here is how you make your own Tomato Cage Ghost for Halloween!

Materials needed for Tomato Cage Ghost

Tomato cage
King-size pillowcase
Sharpie
String lights (white, orange, purple, etc.)

Here’s what you do:

First, once you figure out what a tomato cage is (buy at Home Depot or Lowes) and which way to place it (small end on top) it is easy from there.
Just wrap the cage with the lights (one set per ghost).
Then, make a cut about 1/4 way up both sides of the pillowcase (so it fits better on the tomato cage)
Next, use your sharpie to color some eyes and a mouth.
Finally, slip the case over the cage – and presto – you have floating ghosts!!!!

See my How to make tomato cage ghost video below!

Still not sure if you can pull it off – here is the Anyone-Can-Do-It Tutorial! A step by step pictorial on making your own Tomato Cage Ghost!

Now! Go make your own DIY Tomato Cage Ghost and share your scary pictures with me!!

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Amy | Canary Street Crafts says
August 19, 2014 at 7:39 am
Love this!! Such a cute and simple idea! We’re definitely going to have a few tomato cage ghosts in our yard this Halloween!
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- Jennifer Fishkind says
  August 21, 2014 at 9:07 pm
  Let me know how they come out!!!
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Vickie says
August 24, 2014 at 11:20 pm
So cute! I saw something similar to yours last year. Get a few big white latex balloons, put one of those light sticks inside (don’t activate yet) and fill with helium. Do this on the afternoon of Halloween. Then, that evening, activate the light stick (usually by bending it), put a large piece of cheesecloth over the balloon and secure with double stick tape on the top. Now you have a floating light up ghost. Get out the ladder and tie the end of the string leading to the balloon either in your bushes, the rain gutter, low branches in a tree, things like that. The light sticks give an erie glow and with the cheesecloth over the balloon it makes it look like they are floating! I’m going to try it this year! I may make some like yours also and have a whole haunted mansion like theme!
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- Jennifer Fishkind says
  August 28, 2014 at 3:19 pm
  LOVE this idea!
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Ashley @ 3 Little Greenwoods says
August 25, 2014 at 10:55 am
I am making these with my children this Fall! I can’t wait!
I love this tutorial! Please share this tutorial at my Show-Licious Craft & Recipe Party!
~ Ashley
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Heidi says
August 30, 2014 at 10:17 pm
Ha! So fun – My dad will love this idea! Pinning!
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Ever Marie James says
October 7, 2014 at 2:12 pm
I have two tomato cages saved from several past attempts to grow tomatoes. This is an excellent way to use them and more fun. Thanks for the tip. I hope you have some cute ideas for Christmas decorating with the cages.
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Liz Thompson says
December 30, 2014 at 5:49 pm
Just now I had the chance to come back here and thank you for the tutorial, it was a lot of fun! I made one small change though, I used large white trash bags instead of pillowcases. It worked out perfectly, thanks a bunch. I hope you and your family have a wonderful blessed new year!
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- Jennifer Fishkind says
  January 4, 2015 at 2:48 pm
  What a great idea! Would love to see a picture if you have one!
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Sweet PEA says
August 26, 2015 at 7:38 pm
I think I’m going to try these this Halloween. I never think I have enough decorations, and this would be neat to do with my daughter.
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Sherry says
September 24, 2015 at 7:49 am
Halloween is really exciting.. Can’t wait to do this kind of stuff..
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LORENE gRAVES says
September 28, 2015 at 12:11 am
why not get se of the solar lights small ones then at night you got you goblin no wires or them stick that fade out the sun will energize thru the day
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LORENE gRAVES says
September 28, 2015 at 12:17 am
seems like my post went blank if it did sry but gonna say it again buy the small solar lights thru the day sun charges them so night time got your ghost and you don’t gotta worry bough electric lines or batteries if it rains so im gonna try that bet it will work great
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Pamela Jones says
October 3, 2016 at 3:22 pm
I see at the bottom of the cages, they are on boards. How did you secure them? Can’t wait to try this!
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- Jennifer Fishkind says
  October 3, 2016 at 7:25 pm
  Actually, I just have the boards there to hold it down. You can use stakes to hold them in place – I just didn’t have any.
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Ivory says
July 31, 2018 at 12:22 am
Though I am not ready for summer to end, I will make this project for our Halloween decor.
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kanchipuramsarees says
September 28, 2018 at 10:06 am
Make a cut about ¼ way up in a king-size pillowcase and use a sharpie to color some eyes and a mouth
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October 20, 2014 at 10:43 am
[…] Tomato Cage Ghosts – Take a tomato cage (buy at Home Depot) and wrap the cage with string lights – preferably yellow, white or orange. Make a cut about ¼ way up in a king-size pillowcase and use a sharpie to color some eyes and a mouth. Slip the case over the cage and you have floating ghosts. […]
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