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DIY Halloween Decorations to Woo Your Neighbors with Spookiness!
Halloween is one of our favorite holidays, celebrated on October 31st. Preparations start early, and you can feel the excitement and thrill in the air the whole October month. It is the chance to celebrate, have fun, and experiment with your creative and wild side to create costumes, recipes, and decorations both inside and outside.
The fun and thrill you get from walking past windows filled with creepy decorations and porches brimming with carved and lit-up pumpkins is beyond explanation. If you are just like us and excited to celebrate this October festival, then keep reading this blog post, as this will be your ultimate guide for some DIY Halloween decorations.
Ideas for DIY Outdoor Halloween Decorations :
1. Lantern Path
Create a pathway with candles and lights covered with pumpkins, used jars, and bottles for that eerie glow to welcome guests and trick-or-treaters to your home. You can use LED lights, battery-operated lights, fairy lights, and tea lights. You can create spooky lanterns with battery-operated lights and black paper.
2. Floating Witch Hats
You can hang witch hats with lights in them on your front porch at different elevations to create an eerie and spooky ambience as if the hats are floating.
3. Painted Pumpkins
You can paint your pumpkins in many colors along with cute little designs on them. It would be a little unique and stylish among the same old carved pumpkins.
4. Giant Spiders
Get hold of all the supplies from your local craft shop and start creating these giant spiders with crochet or wool. Create big red eyes with red marbles. It will surely scare many on your driveway.
5. Halloween Painted Rocks
Rock painting is a very good way of involving children to add their expertise this Halloween. Paint the rocks and pebbles black, red, orange, or any dark colors or with bright colors too so that you can outline little figures on them in another color which will give a spooky feeling.
6. Tomato Cage Glowing Ghost
Get hold of the tomato cages from your local garden center. Wrap them in strings of fairy lights and then cover them with white sheets or tablecloths. Put black cutouts to create the eyes, mouth, and nose of the ghosts. It will be the best type of DIY Halloween decorations for outdoor that will give an eerie feeling and goosebumps.
7. Tin Can Lanterns
You can turn trash cans into can lanterns very easily. This way, you can recycle the trash and reuse it every year. Clean the tin cans, paint them in colors, and put in string lights and fairy lights to glow your pathways, windows, and porch.
8. Wooden Candy Corn
Give your finished candy corn a worn look with a dash of antiquing wax, and people will think it has been very old. You can reuse this every year.
9. Cardboard Tombstones
Am sure your garage is brimming with all those Amazon boxes. It’s time to reuse them and recycle them. Use these cardboard boxes and cereal boxes to create your graveyard. You need some spray paints and markers to create the graveyard with tombstones in front of your garage.
10. Creepy Ghost Trees
Cute and creepy is what you might look out for, and for that, this is the DIY Halloween decorations for outside. Decorate your garden trees with strings of battery-operated lights and then cover them with white sheets or tablecloths and mark the eyes, noses, and mouths to give the feel of ghosts on the trees.
These are mostly DIY decorations for the outdoors. Below are some mentions of what you can do very easily to decorate inside your home by recycling and reusing things you already have.
Ideas for DIY Halloween Decorations Indoor:
1. Colorful Hanging Ghosts
You can hang colorful ghosts made of paper and clothes, which are all available at home. Create eyes, nose, and mouth with black or red markers or paper cuts. Insert fairy lights to make your home glow with eeriness.
2. Concrete Skull Candle Holders
This is a bit hard to make and needs some work, but it can be reused every year. Use plaster of Paris to create skull candle holders. You can source the plaster of Paris and the moulds from a local craft shop. And then create these. Add in tea lights or candles to make your room glow.
3. Potion Bottles
It’s time to use all your wine bottles, canisters, and rich, vintage-looking bottles in Halloween home decor items. Turn them into potion bottles with colorful liquids inside and label them with cards mentioning the type of potions, like evil or poison or for hallucination. You can create a corner with fairy lights to give a glow.
4. Paper Bag Lanterns
Reuse and recycle paper bags into lanterns to decorate your home and even your porch and pathway. Cut out the eyes and mouths and let them glow with fairy lights.
Who says Halloween decorations are expensive and tricky? You can achieve a spooky-looking interior and exterior using some creative ideas from our list.
