How to Create Your Own Halloween Decor
The month of October brings ghosts, goblins and plenty of trick-or-treaters, so join the fun by putting Halloween decorations in and around your house. Save your money for candy and costumes by creating your own decorations instead of purchasing premade ones. Use your creativity --- and your family's help --- to create festive Halloween decorations for inside and outside. Take advantage of the richly colored fall landscape as you plan your decorations. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Pumpkins, miniature and standard sizes
- Old clothes
- Newspaper or hay
- Paper bag
- Large pieces of cardboard
- Fake spider webs
- Black construction paper
- Clear string
- Black tablecloth
- Plastic spiders
- Large pillar candles
Instructions
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Outdoor Decorations
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Go to the local pumpkin patch to pick out a pumpkin or two. Place the uncarved pumpkin outside your front door in the weeks leading up to Halloween. A day or two before Halloween, gather the family to carve the pumpkins. Carve a simple jack-o-lantern with eyes, a nose and a mouth or use a kit to carve a more elaborate design like a witch's face or spider. Place a votive candle in the carved pumpkins to make them shine.
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Build a homemade scarecrow. Collect some of dad's old clothes, like a pair of jeans or overalls and a flannel shirt. Stuff the clothes with newspaper or hay to simulate a body. Draw a face on a paper bag, fill it with newspaper and add it to the top of the stuffed shirt. Sit the scarecrow on a bale of hay in your front yard.
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Transform your front yard into a creepy graveyard. Cut large pieces of cardboard into tombstone shapes and spray paint them gray. Write "RIP" or funny epitaphs on the tombstones. Use hot glue to attach a wooden stake to the bottom of each tombstone and stick them in your front yard. Add fake spider webs to the tombstones for an added touch of creepiness.
Indoor Decorations
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Cut out simple bat shapes using black construction paper. Punch a hole into the top of each bat and thread clear string through it. Hang the bats from the ceiling in your house. Place multiple bats in doorways for a garland look.
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Drape your dining room or kitchen table in a black tablecloth. Spread a fake spiderweb down the middle of the table like a table runner and place plastic spiders in it for a spooky effect. Place large pillar candles in the middle of the table to add some creepy mood lighting.
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Pick up some miniature pumpkins at the pumpkin patch and paint your favorite Halloween scenes on them. You can paint faces on the pumpkins or holiday-themed items like spiders, witch's hats or skeleton faces. Use the small pumpkins as a kitchen table centerpiece or place them on end tables throughout the house to add a bit of Halloween cheer.
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References
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