10 Halloween Decoration Ideas
it's the most wonderful time of the year… Yeap I love Halloween over christmas
- Carved and Painted Pumpkins: The basic and classic option is always the best choice. Carved pumpkins with fun faces at your front door will always be the number one option.
- Fake Cobwebs: Cover corners, furniture, and doors with fake cobwebs. Add plastic spiders for a more realistic and eerie effect. You can take it further by using black trash bags to make giant spiders.
- Spooky Lighting: Use colored LED lights (they’re very cheap) in classic colors like orange, purple, or green. You can also use real or electric candles inside lanterns or pumpkins.
- Floating Ghosts: Floating ghosts are very easy to make. Use coat hangers with balloons, white sheets, and string. Hang them on the porch or from tree branches—kids love them, and they’re my favorite!
- Graveyard in the Garden: You can use fake tombstones (or make them yourself with styrofoam) to create a mini graveyard in your garden. For a creepier touch, add skeletons peeking out of the ground or plastic hands emerging from the soil.
- Haunted Door: The front door of your haunted house is very important. Decorate the door with a Halloween wreath made of dry branches, cardboard bats, or torn black fabrics, and add some fangs made of paper. It’s fun to see the kids’ reactions!
- Haunted Mirror: Place a mirror on a dark wall and decorate around it with dim lights and spooky figures. You can use mirror decals that simulate apparitions or eerie messages.
- Potion Corner: What’s a haunted house without potions and spells? Create a table with jars filled with colored liquids (you can use food coloring and water), labeled as potions. Add old books and candles to complete the look.
- Bat Curtains: This requires some crafting skills. Cut bat silhouettes out of black cardboard and hang them with transparent thread from the ceiling or curtains to create a shower of bats—a simple but effective spell. Pro tip: you can find bat templates online.
- Themed Table: A Halloween party is always a great addition. If you’re hosting a party, decorate the table with black or purple tablecloths, plates, and napkins with spooky designs, artificial candles, and a centerpiece with skulls, small pumpkins, and spiders—everyone hates spiders.
It’s always worth mentioning that the main goal is to have fun and share with the neighborhood kids. Anything you can add to make the celebration a success is always welcome.