6 Easy to Make Halloween Decors for Your Space

Whether you caught the DIY bug for putting together sprayed pumpkins or milk jugs around your yard, decorating the walls with bats,  baking spooky Halloween cupcakes or  you are just getting crafty for the very first time in your life, these DIY Halloween decors make it easy to bring in the holiday spirit in your space inexpensively. It is impossible to overdo Halloween – the more decorations you have, the more protection from evil spirits on Hallows’ Eve.

So, don’t waste money on expensive lamps, lanterns, mantel decors, ghosts and spiders. Use the following ideas and get inspired to make one-of-a-kind decors.

Halloween Scarecrow

Greet your trick-or-treaters with a scarecrow mascot. Depending of your style, you can go with  formal or casual, female or male, scary or friendly mascot. To create its body use lumber: a 1×4 for the shoulders, a 2×4 for the main post, and four more 1x4s for the arms. To secure the elbow joints, you can use fasteners and wood glue. Use plastic gourd and and old clothes (pants, shirt, hat, boots) to make it more interesting.

Flying Ghosts

Hang some flying ghosts on the trees in your yard. To add movement to your outdoor decor make them with gauze fabric and balloons.

Boo Bottles

To make these cheap boo bottles you will need some glass bottles. Then remove the caps and labels, and spray-paint them white. Using black marker, draw scary faces. This easy diy decor can be perfect centerpiece for your dining table or coffee table.

Lace Pumpkin

You can think about spraying your pumpkins with white paint to give them a new look. For more glamorous look, you can spray them with gold or black color. To give the pumpkins more elegant touch, wrap them in strips of lace. If you don’t have lace at home, you can use your headband. Fit the peace of lace around the widest part of the pumpkin and that’s it.

Ghostly Lanterns

You can make ghostly lanterns for your home and yard easily, using clean gallon milk jugs. You just need to add white candles or light bulbs into the jugs and draw spooky faces. The jugs can also be painted in some bold color, like orange, purple or green.

Blood-Dripped Candles

This is one of the easiest idea on the list. You will need two candles: red and white. To give the appearance of blood, light the red candle and drip the wax around the edges of the white one. You can make two or three candles in different sizes and place them on your dining table as a decoration.