Halloween comes in no time once after the fall starts. So, the earlier you start preparing your Halloween decorations, the better. Besides creative spooky costumes for Halloween’s trick or treat, you need to set the stage for incredible fall decorations at your home too. However, if you are worried about the amount of money these pumpkins, cauldrons, and other spooky decoration stuff cost, then read on!
Turning your spook on does not necessarily have to burn a hole in your pocket. You can have the best house decoration in the neighborhood without going too overboard with your budget. No matter how you choose to celebrate Halloween – either by enjoying lots of horror movies or hosting a costume party – you can decorate your house on a budget in the spookiest ways possible.
Creative Spookiest Halloween Decorating Ideas
1. Tombstone Chair Covers
This is one of the best ways to bring out the spooky graveyard look in your home without much effort. Print out a template of a tombstone and make stencils out of print. Use a craft knife to do so. Stick your stencil to a chair cover and pin it firmly.
Dip foam in black fabric paint and gently dab the insides of the stencils to paint the covers. Let it dry completely so that the color does not mess up when you take out the stencil. If you don’t want to do all that hard work, you can also buy these spooky Halloween chair covers from Amazon.
2. Macramé Ghost Faces
If you are good at crafts, such as creating macramé, you can prepare this decoration even at the eleventh hour. For this, you need to paint the embroidery hoops black and dry completely. Then, cut white macramé cords into 12 to 14 equal pieces (about 50 inches long).
Follow the instructions for making creepy ghost decorations:
- Make Lark’s head knot by holding two pieces of macramé cords and folding them in half. Now, have the folded ones wrap around the black hoop and pull the tails through it. Secure the loose ends and then repeat the process to complete the loop.
- Make square knots by creating Lark’s head knots, leaving one cord across the top of the loop. Now start with the left cord and wrap it over the next two on the right. Take the fourth one and wrap it behind the last two threads on the left. Pull to tighten the knots and complete the knots across the loop.
3. Vampire Leaves
This decoration can be a fun activity with kids too. Just gather maple leaves and spread them separately on a newspaper on the floor or out in the garden. Spray them with matte black paint and let them dry. Use a white marker to make creepy bat faces on them, and voila! You can stick them on your accent wall or around the entrance door.
4. Spooky Hanging Lanterns
Paper lanterns are the best for giving your house a Halloween makeover. Cut out some paper stickers in the shape of Halloween bugs and stick them on the inside of the paper lanterns. Hang the lanterns with a backdrop of black walls or wallpaper and see them glow in the dark.
5. Snake Wreath
Have the best-decorated porch in the neighborhood this Halloween by creating a door wreath made of snakes. Yes, you read it right: with snakes!
Buy a dozen of plastic snakes of different sizes and lengths. Weave them together between the wreath’s twigs to creep out your neighbors. Use hot glue to stick the snakes in woven patterns. This makes the best DIY outdoor Halloween decorations of all time.
6. Spider Web Glasses
Give your cutlery a Halloween makeover too. Grab some black puff paint and draw cobwebs on the sides of your glasses. The web design will look more cool when you serve neon-colored drinks in them.
7. Spooky Staircase
Another great Halloween decorating idea is to give your staircase a Halloween treatment and decorate it with twigs and paper bats. For this, take a lot of twigs and paint them black with spray paint. Weave them throughout the banister and stick paper bats on the staircase. You can also use string lights or candle lights to lighten up the stairs when everything is dark.
8. Light-up Spider Web
Give your scary Halloween decorations a touch to technology and create an illuminated spider web. Use LED strip lights to make a light-up spider web sprawled across your front porch to the roof. Hang the string lights in a way that shows your house covered in a spider web.
9. Hanging Witch Hats – Spooky Halloween Decoration
Give your entrance a look from the Harry Potter and attach the witch’s hats to the ceiling using strings. Hang the hats in front of your doors and let them sway with the wind. They will give off the feeling of floating hats.
10. Drip Candles
Old wine bottles can come in handy if you want to create a drip-candle effect. Spray the bottles black with black paint and place candles in them. Let the candles burn and drip the wax randomly over the bottle. Now, spray the dripped wax black here and there without fully coloring them up to turn the spookiness up a level.
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Spookiest Halloween House
Your wish to have your home decorated for Halloween is just an article away! Grab the things you need to have the best-decorated home and enjoy your day with friends and family. Halloween is the best time to channel your inner horror-lover in decorating your house and impress your visitors. I hope you have fun making these spooky Halloween decorations.
