Halloween is a great time for decorating your homes. Many homeowners spend days making their houses look spooky and fun. In certain villages, homeowner associations even come up with contest on which house is well decorated. Many homeowners are so eager to win in this contest that they turn their house into a cemetery or haunted house. For many, decorating the house means spending a lot. One of the common issues in home decorations is the cost in making the house beautiful and attractive. Well in fact, this is not always the case. You can successfully make Halloween decorations even if you are on a tight budget. This is when DIY comes in. There are many DIY Halloween decorations that can give the same effect as those of commercially available decorations.
DIY Halloween decoration ideas that you will love
Here are some tips on how to create DIY Halloween decorations that you can display indoor and outdoor:
1. Tin can luminaries – if you already have kept cans, then you will not be needing to spend a lot of cash. With the use of nail, add hole on to the cans of patterns at your disposal. Use tea candles to illuminate the cans. Line them over your porch or in areas where you want them to be.
2. Floating witch hats – these hats are good ways to light up your porch. These decors light up and can attract kids and tell them that you are ready for trick or treat.
3. Black o’ lanterns – place them in your front porch or in the living room. These great Halloween decoration looks like cute black cats. These black cats are made from stacked pumpkins and a candle that can give a spooky Halloween glow. Place them on your front porch or steps to attract kids for treat or trick. They are easy to make and no mess to worry.
4. Floating ghosts – recycle old plastic soda bottles and transform them into wonderful Halloween decorations. Even kids can make these ghosts with adult supervision needed. Decorate your porch or living room with these cute little ghosts.
5. Spooky Halloween candle light cups – easy to create decor project. All you need are old or new plastic cups as well as LED lights. Just like the other DIY decorations, these are ideal for the porch or stairway.
6. Halloween luminaries – this project will cost you only with minimal amount. You can use recycled bags or wallpapers and other supplies. These bags appear great on the porch rail or lining the stairway.
7. Chicken wire ghost – with the use of chicken wire or any other fencing materials available in your home, shape them into scary ghost. These are great for hiding in wooded areas and scaring people. Have few of these around the yard for a fun and exciting yard.
8. Candy corn centerpiece – Halloween tables are not complete without the candy corn centerpiece. All you have to do is to spray paint the candy corn colors onto old glass bottles and then decorate them however you want. Make several of them to create a wonderful display.
9. Hanging bat chandelier – of course Halloween is not complete without bats. With a few black bats, you can create your own chandelier to decorate the porch or living room. In this project, you will be needing black card stock, qilting thread and embroidery hoops.
10. Crafty pumpkins – pumpkins is one of the oldest and widely used decor for the Halloween. All you need to do is dress up your pumpkin with various accessories such as buttons, ribbons, markers, and others. Be creative and imaginative in creating this beautiful Halloween decor.