When you think of Halloween, easy Halloween costumes and the best Halloween candy you can't wait to scarf down are usually the first things that come to mind. But just like it's the one time of the year when you can dress up in your favorite funny DIY Halloween costume, why not also get creative with DIY Halloween decorations for your home? These creative ideas will ensure that every inch of your house will look unique and festive this season—not to mention just a little spooky! An added bonus— many of these cheap and easy DIY halloween decorations are seasonal enough that you can keep them around through Thanksgiving.
We've included DIY Halloween decorations for outside as well as inside. Dress up your porch with spooky Halloween wreaths, place witch brooms on the door, or hang oversized spiders that will wow your party guests. Want to fill up every room of your house with wickedly creative Halloween crafts? We've got ideas for everything from Halloween Mason jars to larger, more challenging crafts, like wall hangings. If you don't feel like taking on the task alone, get your little ghouls and goblins involved in the handiwork—there are plenty of simple Halloween crafts for kids here, too.
So prepare to become the ghostess with the mostess and treat your house to one, or more, of these DIY Halloween decorations. Just don't be surprised when you become the talk of the neighborhood.
Becky Stayner
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Transferware Pumpkins
Grab the Mod Podge. A simple trip to the color copier is all it takes to "transfer" your transferware collection to a pumpkin. Simply make a color copy of a your favorite plates and trays, then cut the paper into strips and adhere to a pumpkin or gourd with the Mod Podge.
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Pretty Sideboard
Create a seasonal sideboard by filling class cloches with pumpkins and an urn with fall foliage. The domes provide the perfect spot for displaying a selection of Jack Be Little gourds. To easily fill, hold the cloche or bell jar upside down and fill with pumpkins. Set the base on the opening (you can also use cutting boards or cake stands), and turn right side up.
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Ceramic Crocks Filled with Pumpkins and Mums
Step it up. Display flat and wide pumpkins (lMusquee de Provence, Jarrahdale, and Cinderella are ideal varieties) on top an assortment of crocks places on a stoop or front stairs. Add texture and color by mixing in potted mums.
Becky Stayner
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Grain Sack Pumpkins
Show your stripes! Strips of striped ribbon adhered with Mod Podge give white Lumina pumpkins the farmhouse flair of the dependable nubby fabric.
Becky Stayner
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Spool and Bobbin Display
Get stacking. Perch petite pumpkins on top of wooden spools and bobbins for a 60-second mantel upgrade.
Becky Stayner
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Copper Painted Pumpkins
Shine on. Pair your cookware collectibles with pumpkins coated in a metallic acrylic copper paint. Display alongside (or in!) your wares.
Becky Stayner
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Leaf Motif Pumpkins
Great trick-treaters and well-wishers with a wheelbarrow stuffed full of leaf motif and undecorated pumpkins.
To make:
Decoupage Leaves: Cut out leaves and flowers from new or vintage wallpaper or wrapping paper. Decoupage to pumpkins using Modge Podge.
Outlined Painted Leaves: Use a leaf-shaped stencil to paint fall colored leaves on green, blue, or white pumpkins. Once dry, use a white paint pen to outline the leaves and add veining and other decorative details.
Becky Stayner
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Apothecary Jar Squash
Mix and match. The amber glass vessels evoke the colors of the season, while the old-school labels on the squash (think"cyanide") serve up an "evil lab" kind of spooky.
To make the squash version: Remove the stem from a Honeynut squash and use a pumpkin carving tool to hollow out a hole and insert a cork. Use Mod Podge to attach apothecary labels.
Becky Stayner
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Etched Vine Topiary Pumpkin
This trio is the perfect sophisticated decor for greeting guests to your front door. Place directly on the porch or layer on a vintage ladderback chair with different color plaid blankets.
To make: Purchase one large, one medium, and one small pumpkin (any color combo works) that stack nicely. Remove the stems from the large and medium pumpkin. Lightly sketch a vine pattern on a pumpkin with a pencil. Use a linoleum carving tool to etch out the pattern. Once complete, attach red berries or beads with hot glue.
Becky Stayner
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Tiered Colander Pumpkin Display
Build and display a tiered centerpiece. Use it on the kitchen table, or on a sideboard.
To make: Cut floral foam to fit into the bowls of the bottom and middle colanders. Make your stack by pushing the top two colanders (footed work best) into the foam. Use mini pumpkins and bittersweet to fill the top tier and the spaces between the colanders.
Becky Stayner
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Bittersweet Wrapped Pumpkin
This simple craft, which is perfect for decorating your fall table, only takes three supplies and just a few minutes to make. If you can't find bittersweet vine, try using grapevine and attaching berries with hot glue.
To make: Wrap white pumpkins with bittersweet vine, holding it in place with t-pins and hot glue.
Evin Krehbiel
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Wine Bottle Candlesticks
An eerie flicker is a must at any Halloween gathering. Paint wine bottles with matte-black spray paint. Once dry, insert an orange taper candle in each opening.
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Bushels-of-Fun Halloween Party
Hang round wood cutting boards that have been transformed into pumpkins with the help of orange wood stain, paper leaves, and pipe cleaner tendrils at your family-friendly affair. A candy cane garland is fashioned from paper plates that have been painted with stripes of orange and yellow craft paint. Display a seasonal arrangement in a vintage metal container and add height to the buffet with mini hay bales and wood crates.
Evin Krehbiel
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Bubbling Cauldron
Easily add spooky fog by simply adding dry ice (available in grocery stores) and a little water to a cast-iron Dutch oven.
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Horror Novel Door
Long before scary Halloween movies were made, people were getting chills from frightening novels. So why not incorporate these spooky classics right onto your Halloween decor?
Make the Book Door: Cut long, thin rectangular pieces of differing colored kraft paper (we used red, gray, and black). Draw titles of books on the paper. Outline letters with gold paint pens. Fill in outline with paint pen or gold acrylic paint. Attach to door with double-sided tape. Add large bushel basket and buffalo-check doormat.
Evin Krehbiel
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Creepy Spiderweb Wall
Add layers of creepiness to a Halloween buffet with sticky looking spider webs and eerie black painted branches. Simply stretch fake spider web material across the buffet wall, wrapping it around and though branches that have been spray painted black.
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Silhouettes Party Buffet
Spooky silhouettes cut from black craft paper add creepy character to this Halloween buffet spread. Crows adorn an oversize mirror, owls stand watch over the food, and hands try and break free from a layer cake that is topped with crumbled cookie "dirt" and crawling with creepy plastic spiders.
Evin Krehbiel
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Spiderweb Cake
Adding an easy decoration to a store-bought cakes will make your guests think you put in a lot of effort. Simply transfer white frosting to a piping bag fitted with a small tip and pipe onto cake in a random pattern so that it resembles spiderwebs. Top with plastic spiders.
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Spooky Tattered Curtains
Dotted Swiss fabric turns eerie when transformed into a torn and tattered curtain. Serve sinister lychee eyeball punch in a vintage battery glass and scatter silhouettes of rats, made from black craft paper, around the display.
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Vintage Harvest-Inspired Door
Your decor doesn't have to be super scary. Pretty vintage pumpkin and harvest prints will still conjure up feelings of Halloween.
Make the Harvest Door: Download fall-themed vintage seed packets and print on 8 1/2- by 11-inch cream-colored paper. Adhere to door with double-sided tape. Add vintage crate planter and pumpkin doormat.
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Paper Silhouette Decor
Liven up a plain white mantel with layers of chilling Halloween-themed silhouettes made from black and red craft paper. The matron of the house dons an oversized paper witch hat, while extended family members carry pickaxes and show off bloody vampire teeth.
Bats fly around the scene and land on a garland made from black cording. Red flames lap from the fireplace while coiled snake andirons stand guard. Create a pumpkin cluster by cutting out silhouettes of family members. Attach them to a pumpkins with Mod Podge and trim with black cording or sewing trim.
Evin Krehbiel
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Giant Balloon Spiders
What's the opposite of curb appeal? That's what you'll get when you place an oversize arachnid on your front door.
Make the spider:
Make the body: Blow up one large black balloon for the body and one smaller black balloon for the head. Tie the two balloon knots together to form the spider.
Make the legs: Wrap eight lengths of unfurled wire hanger or 12-gauge craft wire with black faux fur, holding in place with hot-glue. Twist ends of four lengths together, creating bundles of legs. Repeat with remaining four lengths.
Assemble the spider: Wrap a black pipe cleaner around twisted ends of leg bundles. Wrap pipe cleaner around "neck" of spider where balloons are tied together. Wrap fishing wire around leg to hang.
John Kernick
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Effortlessly Eerie Living Room
These decorating tricks are so easy, it's frightening. Take a page out of Miss Havisham's book and use sheet-draped chairs to give your room the look of ruin. Then, string a cheesecloth "cobweb" across a mirror and secure curly willow branches in candlesticks with museum wax.
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Set the (Crime) Scene
Time's a ticking! Take a cue from the first Nancy Drew mystery, The Secret of the Old Clock, and deck the walls with new, vintage, and DIY'd clocks and keys. (Psst: Can you spot the ones made of paper?) For another thematic touch, decoupage pumpkins with photocopied pages from the series.
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Paper Candy Corn Door
Can't figure out what to put on your door? Get inspired by your favorite Halloween sweets—like candy corn.
Make the Candy Corn Door: Create a candy corn-inspired "quilt." Paint wide stripes, using acrylic paint (we used orange, mustard, cranberry, and gray), on thick artist's paper. Once dry, cut into equal-size triangles. Cut a 2-inch paper trim in a corresponding color. Attach to door using double- sided tape. Add whitewashed woven planters and "Lobster Rope" doormat.
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Cameo Cookie Display
Give treats the scary treatment. Display Cameo cookies in a wood box filled with store-bought Spanish moss. Nail a tag made from torn paper and stamped with a spooky crow silhouette to the box. Stamp glassine bags with a spider so guests can take cookies to enjoy later. To make the cookies, use a Cameo silhouette-shaped cookie cutter to cut the Cameo outline from slice-and-bake sugar cookie dough; bake as directed. Once cool, apply white royal icing to the portrait and "frame," then coat with sparkling black sanding sugar, shaking off any excess.
Brian Woodcock
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Morgue Drawer Door
Enter if you dare! This door decoration is perfect for anyone who's looking to send chills down their guests' spines.
Make the Door: Attach three precut 20- by 30-inch pieces of foam core together with spray adhesive. Attach a piece of black paper, cut to size, to the top piece of foam core using spray adhesive. Insert the rectangular piece of two 6-inch stainless steel T-hinges between the first and second pieces of foam core on one of the short sides; "screw" in place. Place a 6 1/2-inch handle on the opposite side; "screw" in place. Cover exposed edges of the foam core with silver duct tape, folding any excess to the back. Make two more doors.
Adhere to house door with heavy- duty self-adhesive Velcro. Cut five coffin shapes from black and gray kraft paper. Paint letters on gray coffins with red acrylic paint to spell "morgue" and attach to black coffins with double-sided tape. Hang a plastic chain above the door and attach coffin cutouts with hot-glue. Add plastic pedestal planter painted Titanium Silver by Rust-Oleum and "Swiss Cross" doormat.
Brian Woodcock
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Spider Wreath
We get the creepy crawlies just looking at this spider web wreath. Isn't that the feeling you want all of your Halloween decorations to drum up?
Make the Wreath: Tie six pieces of white string across a 14-inch foam wreath form, making sure to loop each one at the midway point of the first piece attached to create a central point. (This is the base of the web and should have 12 "spokes.") Tie a long piece of string to the center point; weave and loop from the center out to create the web. If you run out of string, tie another piece to the end and continue weaving. When you reach the wreath form, tie off at your ending point. Move the twine up and down to create uneven gaps in the web. Wrap the wreath form with white burlap ribbon and attach faux spiders with hot-glue. Loop a piece of white burlap ribbon around the form to hang.
Brian Woodcock
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Broomstick Door Décor
Welcome fellow witches with this coven-inspired broomstick door idea. It's really simple to pull off if you're looking for a last-minute Halloween design.
Make the Door: Drill a small hole in the handle of two large outdoor brooms. Hammer five small nails in front door. Hang two brooms, right sides up, through holes. Hang a third large broom and two small "witches brooms" by threading the bristles over the remaining three nails. Add black plastic Grecian urn planters and "Spirit Board" doormat.
Brian Woodcock
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Candy Wrapper Pumpkins
Show off your favorite candy by displaying it on your pumpkins. You can even go for a rustic look and select vintage candy wrappers.
Make the Pumpkins: Print copies of candy labels from Pinterest; cut into 1-inch strips. Attach to pumpkins using Mod Podge, working to line up the design as best as possible.
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