Halloween Homemade Scary Decorations

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Making Halloween decorations at home requires from you to have some supplies on hand or to go to your local craft shop in order to have all the needed materials ready before you start any project. Here is the basic craft equipment needed:

• Various craft paintings: black, white, orange, etc. (pots)
• Gold and silver paint (pots or spraying cans)
• Colored pipe cleaners
• Silver, gold, black and white markers

Obviously, most households already have standard craft supplies like a pair of scissors, glue and tape.

And So, let's begin our crafting project: it's going to be a pleasure!

Oh and by the way, just click here to download a free Happy Halloween book that includes Halloween coloring pages, recipes, songs for your kids as well as a bunch of Halloween ideas for adults :)

The first crafts we are going to produce are spiders, they are quick and elementary crafts and spiders are among the most favorite Halloween symbolic representations. It is the most inexpensive craft as it necessitates recyclable material.

Here is the material you'll need:

• An egg carton;
• 8 pipe cleaners;
• 1 pot black paint;
• Pair of scissors

Directions to make a Halloween spider:

• After you have cut each and every egg cup, paint them black
• Add points to feature the eyes with white or orange paint or glue wiggle eyes which will provide a fun look to your spider;
• Make four small holes on two lateral faces of the cups
• Insert a black or colored pipe cleaner in each hole and stick or glue them to the cup
• Shape the pipe cleaners
• Use polyester thread to hang the spider.

The possibilities for making unique Halloween homemade decorations are endless, just find some items to make, get the necessary material and spend some time with your children creating your own and personalized decorations.

Recycled Hat of a Witch

If you kept your pointy black hat from last Halloween, here is a really original and quick manner to recycle it. All you have to do is stick Halloween items like spiders and cobwebs or fake hands or fingers, and pin the hat to your front door.

You may even reuse the hat for Thanksgiving by exchanging the Halloween items with leaves, berries, and other Fall items.

Homemade Halloween Centrepiece

If you have a bread basket, you won't have to spend a dime to make this nice centerpiece as you can reuse your existing Halloween decoration items.

Directions:

Fill the basket with some maple leaves;
Add cobweb, mini pumpkins, spiders...

Money saving tip: keep the basket for Thanksgiving as by just removing the Halloween items and placing grapes and pine cones into the basket you'll easily move from one holiday to the other one.

Get Ready for Trick or Treating!

Gather as many little pumpkin plastic containers as possible and fill them with candies. Voila! Treats are ready to be offered to the children who will knock on your door on Halloween Eve.

(Halloween hat photo, courtesy of Purplemoon from Gardenweb)

A Halloween Snowglobe can be made from an old glass jar, plastic bugs and small stones.

To create this Halloween decoration, simply:

• Clean out the glass jar and dry.
• Fill the jar with Karo syrup and place the glass stones and tiny plastic spiders in the jar.
• The top of the jar can be sealed in place with some silicone caulking to prevent the liquid from escaping.
• Once the caulk has dried and the rim of the jar is secure, the Halloween Snowglobe will be slimy

Halloween Candelabra

• Paint candelabra with black paint
• Place orange wax lights
• Hang cobwebs on the candelabra for a spooky Halloween effect!

Make a Halloween Tree

• Get a vase where you will place some bare branches
• Recycle old small Christmas tree balls by painting them black, white, and orange
• Drawing Halloween shapes on them will add your personal touch to the balls
• Hang those balls on the branches.

Halloween Homemade Tree Decorations

There are many other Halloween tree decorations to choose from: colorful painted ghosts, black cat, witches, spiders made out of cardboard.

Another option would be to make a wonderful Halloween garland with popcorn or dried pasta painted orange.

(photo courtesy of Purplemoon from Gardenweb)

Here is a very unusual idea that will let you reuse your Halloween decorations while economizing some money.

If you have some ceramic pumpkins, you should reuse them. Indeed, rather than buying new Halloween decorations, paint those you wish to throw away with gold or silver spraying can for a luxurious decoration; black and/or white for a monochrome style, paint your pumpkins with black crackle paint which would provide them with a scary old look.

Take a black, white, silver or gold marker and draw a few shapes on these new pumpkins such as black cats, white witches, a black mansion...

Children love bright colors therefore you would wish to paint your pumpkins in various bright colors such as orange, green, etc. Draw Halloween shapes on the pumpkins or stick Halloween candy beads or other Halloween craft items on them.

Teenagers will appreciate pumpkins painted with metallic color paints, glow-in-the-dark, sparkling colors.

Pumpkin Jar

Here is a first idea on how to recycle your former Halloween decoration items.

If you have one or more glass or plastic transparent jars, fill them with small plastic or ceramic pumpkins; alternate pumpkins with maple berries and leaves.

Have bigger jars? You will reuse them as well: paint the jars black, white, gold, orange, or whatever color you want and pour in your Christmas lights.

Halloween Homemade Illuminations

This is an original and unusual Halloween homemade decoration. For this, you will re-use materials you already have; whether it's from the last holidays or things you have in the attic or the cellar.

Paint small jars; their shape is not important and can be any shape you want for as long as you paint them black, white and/or orange. Make use of a gold or silver marker and draw a few Halloween shapes on them and insert a tea light candle into each jar (for greatest effect, make use of scented tea light candles).

Here's an example of a painted jar: paint a jar white, draw the eyes and mouth of the murderer in Scream and in five minutes you get an unique and customized ghost light.

Place your Halloween candles on a black tray and put the finishing touches (i.e. insert mini pumpkins, maple berries and leaves, etc.)

Picture: courtesy of Luvstocraft, aka Karen from Gardenweb Forums who's a GREAT artist and creates wonders!

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