Halloween Decorations You Can Make
This Halloween there are lots of ways to decorate your home – both inside and out without breaking the bank.
All you need are some basic craft supplies, some imagination, and just a little bit of muscle and you can transform your home into a haunted mansion that even the Adam’s family would be proud to call “Home Sweet Home.”
Below are some great Halloween craft and decorating ideas, but be sure to also check out all the Halloween decorations we’ve found. They are probably not as expensive as you think!
- Black paper silhouettes make inexpensive Halloween decorations and look amazing peeping out of windows, along staircases and baseboards, and adhered to mirrors. Find any template on the internet (there are tons to pick from). Try to find simple ones that are easy to recognize, like rats, mice, witch’s hands and hats, crows, and bats. Simply use the template to cut out of black construction paper and adhere with tape. They’re easily saved for next year.
- Make your own blood and write on the mirrors. It’s just a mix Karo syrup and red food coloring. Write scary sayings like – “I’m watching you” or “Beware” on the mirrors and hang some inexpensive cobweb along the top and sides.
- Get white helium balloons and use permanent marker to create easy ghost faces. Tie glow sticks to the strings and float them around the house – both inside and out.
- Have your children make some monster hands. Use brown cardstock and square off the fingers of the handprints before cutting out. Fingernails should be black and square-shaped. Paint some cotton balls black, pull into small pieces, and glue to the knuckles to represent hairy hands. Adhere around doorways to give the appearance that they are just around the corner waiting for you.
- Print out some witch’s pointy black shoes and add shiny silver buckles and make some striped green and purple stockings. Have them hiding underneath a sofa, table, or chair.
- Again, use black construction paper to make large, oversized letters and spell out Halloween phrases like, “Boo”, “Beware”, “Hilda Lives Here” and tape to the walls.
- Any large cylindar-shaped container, like an oatmeal box can be covered in guaze to represent a mummy’s face. Gently separate the guaze to insert plastic, googly eyes and you have a mummy container to add Halloween goodies in.
- Purchase some green, purple, and black foam. If you can find foam with peel-off adhesive on the back- you’ve just made your job even easier! Cut the green and purple foam into round and almond-shaped eyes. Cut pupils out of the black foam and adhere into the center of the eyes. Stick them around walls, mirrors, or trees outside and you have “monster eyes”.
