Homemade Halloween Window Decoration Ideas

Before starting to create your Halloween window decorations, you should have these items on hand so that you don't find yourself stopped in your creative endeavours. Most are available at your local supermarket or craft store.

• Tape roll
• Scissors
• A black pen
• Transparent nylon thread (to hang your decorations)
• Glue
• Cutter Knife
• Coloured acrylic paint pots
• Coloured construction paper
• Lunch bags
• Paper plates
• Tea lights in glass containers

Halloween lights are also a great way to decorate your window for the holiday. First make sure that you have a window support large enough to place your Halloween lights.

Simple Skeleton Halloween Lantern

Here are the directions to make this quick and easy basic skeleton Halloween lantern for your window:

• Take a lunch bag
• Draw a skeleton on both sides of the bag
• Cut them out with a cutter knife so that you ensure the form of the bag is kept intact
• Then paint the bag black
• Fill the bag with sand and place the tea light in container inside the sand
• Then light the candle and place on the window support

Enjoy the scary look of your new Halloween lantern.

Ligthed 3D Halloween Skeleton

An alternative to the cut skeleton would be to use some white Styrofoam:

• Draw a skeleton on a piece of Styrofoam
• Cut it out with a cutter knife
• Stick the skeleton on the lunch bag you're painting black
• Fill the bag with sand
• Add a tea light in a glass container.

Now you have a superb 3D skeleton lantern to place on the window support.

Skeletons aren't the only shapes you can use to make your Halloween lantern, but if you have enough bags, you can create as many different Halloween lanterns as you want: pumpkins, ghosts, bats, spiders, etc.

There's no Halloween without a few spiders and cobwebs, of course, therefore, we're going to create a spooky cobweb for your Halloween window.

• Draw some spiders with a pen - you can easily make a spider by drawing a simple circle along with 8 legs
• Color them black, cut them out and set aside
• Draw the cobweb with a very fine pencil and, in order for the cobweb to be cut out and stuck on your window, make sure the lines are at least 2 inches in thickness and intersecting lines are of 4 inches
• Cut out interesecting lines. If you need help to form the cobweb in a realistic way, find some cobweb pictures to get inspiration.
• Stick the spiders on both sides of the cobweb and stick to the window.

Voila, you have a wonderful no cost and homemade cobweb window decoration.

Pumpkin Paper Plate Mask

Paper plate masks can make wonderful homemade Halloween window decorations. Let's take the example of a pumpkin paper plate window decoration.

• Paint an orange pumpkin on both faces of a paper plate
• Draw the eyes, nose and mouth with a black pencil
• Cut them out
• Decorate the pumpkin in the way you want
• Punch a hole on top of the pumpkin face
• Use transparent nylon thread that you will pin it to the window frame.

Halloween Pumpkin Lantern

• Take a lunch bag and draw a pumpkin face on both sides of the bag
• Draw the eyes, the nose and the mouth of your pumpkin - you can make a scary face on one side of the bag and a funny face on the other side
• Use a cutter knife to cut out the eyes, nose and mouth
• Paint the pumpkin orange, decorate it and pain the rest of the bag black
• Fill the bag with sand and place a tea light in a glass container to the center of the sand
• Light the candle and place your cute Halloween lantern on the window support.

A great Halloween decoration to make for your window is a garland. Such Halloween crafts are easy and fun to make. All you need for such purpose is some orange paper for making pumpkin garland, white paper for skeleton garland, grey paper for ghost garland and black paper for bat or spider garland.

The best idea would be to alternate pumpkin, spider, ghost, skeleton and bat when you make your garland.

Here's how to make a Halloween garland:

• Take a sheet of colored or white paper
• Draw several figures (pumpkin, bat, etc.)
• Cut them out
• Punch a tiny hole on each side of the figures
• Link them with transparent nylon thread
• Hang on the window frame.

The more figures you draw and cut, the longest your garland will be.

There are many types of garland that you can make for Halloween, you're only limited by your imagination.

Most popular Halloween symbols are ghosts, therefore, we're going to start with a few homemade Halloween window ghosts for you to make with the kids this Halloween.

Basic Ghost Halloween Window Decoration

A first way to make a Halloween window ghost is to use construction paper.

• Draw ghost different ghost shapes in different sizes
• Use a black pen to design expressive eyes and mouth
• Cut your ghostly shapes out of the sheets
• Make a tiny hole on top of each ghost and pass some transparent thread
• Use threads of various lengthes and cross them in the small holes which you have done on top of each ghost
• Make a small knot on the other side of the thread and pin to the window frame.

If you don't want to pin the ghosts, just use two pieces of tape and stick on the windows.

Contact Paper Halloween Window Ghosts

An alternative way to make spooky ghosts for your window Halloween decor is to get some coloured contact paper.

• Draw ghost shapes
• Cut them out
• Draw faces and then stick the ghosts on the windows.

Plastic Window Halloween Ghost

Another great Halloween window ghost decoration idea would be a plastic window ghost:

• Take a sheet of paper
• Draw the head of a ghost
• Cut it out
• Take a white plastic shopping bag and cut a few strips of different lengthes
• Stick them to the bottom of the ghost head
• Stick to the window.

Your ghosts will move each time some wind will enter the room; which will add to the Halloween ambiance.

Photo: Plastic Canvas for All Seasons

In the wide range of potential homemade Halloween window decorations, plastic canvas decorations are also a fantastic alternative. You can find plastic canvas decoration kits in any good local craft store and you can even find printable Halloween plastic canvas online. In the event you get online plastic canvas patterns, just make sure that you have the window hangers on hand.

Plastic canvas decorations principe is quite simple: you get a pattern on which you will work. This pattern contains numbers; which correspond to specific colours of thread. However, plastic canvas decorations require time and patience as well as a complete focus during the task but work wonders on your Halloween windows.

Photo: Ethereal Ghost Glass - Window Clings 12in. x 17in. Sheet Pkg/12

If you don't have time nor the patience to make your own Halloween window decorations at home, a quick and easy way to decorate your windows this Halloween holiday is by using window clings.

You can find them in any good local craft store as well as online and they come in several different shapes, such as pumpkins, bloody hand prints, ghosts, bats, skeleton, creepy Halloween villages, tombstones and graveyeards, etc.