Halloween is the one time for excessive decorating in the year. With the entire neighborhood coming at your door, there is no limit for decorating your yard. You can welcome the spooky occasion by revamping all the parts of your home. No matter how you decide to decorate, you’ll definitely need a jack-o’-lantern or two to welcome trick-or-treaters. Here are 21 of the best Halloween decoration ideas.
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Top 21 Halloween Decoration Ideas
Make a Snake Wreath
Scare the neighbors with a weird wreath laden with plastic snakes. You can collect a range of plastic snakes and a wreath structure. Begin with the biggest snakes and tie them in between twigs in the wreath. Repeat this until all the plastic snakes are used. Hot glue can be used to fasten them to the wreath itself.
Choose a Palette
Restricting your home’s color palette to only some colors produces an appearance that is perfect for Halloween. For instance, pairing black-and-white with hues of orange is a great option. Metallics are a must-have for any Halloween-centric vignette, so combining gold, copper, or silver for some extra shine is a good idea too.
Design Some Magic Books
Make new books look like old leather-bound volumes by wrapping them in a leather jacket that you have distressed and aged. Group them as a vignette besides wine bottles, which can be styled as potion bottles, to add a hint of scary sophistication.
Craft a Cobweb Wreath
Extend a fake web onto a foot-long embroidered hoop and then close it. Trim any unnecessary webbing off from the posterior and insert a few tiny spiders at the front to give it a more realistic appearance.
Dress the Windows
Give your home a scary remodeling instantly with curtains wrought with designs relevant to Halloween, such as ghosts, animals, and other motifs, to change the look of your windows and doors.
Present a Shadowy Scene
With sticky sheets of black vinyl and just a little bit of imagination, you can change any ordinary part of your home, such as say, the garage door, into a scary scene befitting Halloween.
Hocus Pocus Sign
Get started with a witchy business by putting up a Halloween sign. Such signs can be homemade or store-bought and can display anything from scary pumpkins to ghouls and whatnot. Aluminum signs are better as they last from year to year.
Create a Vibrant Front
Make your home entrance one remember for trick-or-treaters, with pots on the front porch filled with colorful elements such as sweet potato vine and purple fountain grass, encircled by typical Halloween decorations like lanterns and pumpkins.
Planting Scary Doormats
Would anyone dare to enter your home if the first thing they see is a doormat that shocks them? Doormats having a scary message at the entryway, coupled with accessories such as cobwebs, will determine the tone for the rest of your ghost-infected home.
Grim Reaper Halloween Tombstone
A scary DIY graveyard can spook trick-or-treaters before they get their candy. Making one out of papier-mâché with a spooky scepter can give a haunting feel to your décor.
Set a Scary Tone Safely
Dry ice combined with scary elements can make some amazing Halloween decor but, this subzero substance must be used safely. Liquid nitrogen is fantastic in giving smoky effects to your décor.
Ditch the Wreath for a Basket Instead
Make swapping out your Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations a snap by upgrading multiple wreaths for a single straw tote or basket you can fill to fit the season. Bonus: Add vinyl house numbers for a custom touch.
Tiny Ghost Town
Matte black spray paint turns craft store birdhouses into an eerie mini landscape. To bump up the creep factor, add oversized spiders, rubber snakes or faux birds to your scene.
Whip Up a Little Poison
Don’t toss that old bottle. Instead, turn it into sleek Halloween decor. To get the look: Thoroughly clean the glass; once dry, coat each bottle with one coat of spray primer and 2-3 coats of matte black spray paint. Add a handwritten label and display your potent potables as a group.
Craft a Litter of Black Cats
Turn a sheet of plywood into these simple cat silhouettes that keep a baleful eye on Halloween visitors with glowing eyes created by backing moon-shaped cut-outs with small, battery-powered lights. This is one of the best Halloween decoration ideas.
Light Up Your Front Porch
Prep your front porch or entryway for the arrival of trick-or-treaters or Halloween guests with the sweet aroma of candy-corn-filled hurricanes. To create them, place pillar candles inside clear glass hurricanes of different sizes then fill each hurricane, roughly halfway, with candy corn. For safety, be sure to blow out the candle before it burns below the candy.
Fake Some Formaldehyde
Fill lidded jars with water, green food coloring, rubber creatures (like mice, snakes, bats or insects), leaves or dried flowers to give any room the look of a mad scientist’s lab. This is one of the best Halloween decoration ideas.
Turn Scrapbook Paper into “Specimens”
Just stamp creepy animal shapes — like vampire bats, snakes or spiders — out of colorful card stock to create a collection of “specimens” to fill a shadowbox-style frame.
Phantom Chair Slipcover
Use gauzy fabric and cheesecloth to give a traditional dining chair a tattered, ghostly silhouette for Halloween. With raw edges and a simple shape, this slipcover is a snap to make using basic sewing skills. This is one of the best Halloween decoration ideas.
Turn a Pumpkin into a Candy Dish
Cut a faux pumpkin in half to create a cute lidded container for serving Halloween candy. The waterproof foam interior also makes these a great cooler when filled with ice and beverages.
Turn Your Family into Pumpkins
You can add signature characteristics to pumpkins and gourds that resemble your nearest and dearest. Fresh produce, felt, a permanent marker and a few bits of clothing are all you need.
Happy Halloween!
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