Witch's Broom And Parking Sign

Halloween Witch's Broom Parking Space

Broom made from paper grocery bag and branch

Witches Must Park Brooms

What you will need for this project:

Paper grocery bag
Small tree branch
Black fabric or black twist tie
Brown paint
Black magic marker
Scrap piece of wood
Dollar store hook setScissors
Twine
Paint brushes or dollar store cotton swabs to paint with
Glue
Hand drill/Push Drill
Pencil
Screwdriver

To make the faux broom bristles, I cut open a paper grocery bag, pulled off the paper handles, and cut out the bottom of the bag.

I crumpled up the paper and held it under a faucet sink to get it completely wet.

Squeeze out excess water and open the paper up.

Arrange the paper so that it is an oblong bag. Twist tie it at the top and let dry.

I used a cotton swab to paint it with the brown paint. You will not get every area because of the crumpling. Cover some areas twice so that you have light brown and dark brown shades in addition to the light tan bag showing through. This give it lots of contrast and a textured look.

When the brown paint was dried I use my black magic marker to add random black streaks. Again, this is for contrast and a textured look. You can keep repeating the paint and magic marker until you like the look of it.

I took a tree branch that I collected during the fall/winter season and spray painted it with a metallic gold spray paint. The branch will be the broom handle. The picture above was taken before I painted the bag. 

Tie the painted bag to the golden branch with either black fabric or a black twist tie. 

That's it! You've now got a faux witch's broom.

To make the broom holder I just screwed some dollar store hooks into a scrap piece of wood I had. With a pencil I marked where the hooks would go. I used my push drill to drill the holes.

Then I screwed the hooks into place.

I printed out the words (Witches Must Park Brooms) from my computer onto a sheet of paper that I cut out and glued to my board. 

You can hand letter any message you would like if you don't have a computer printer.

Then attached some twine to the back of the board to hang my sign with and placed my faux Witch's Broom on the hooks to complete the project.