Homemade Halloween Decorations

It's Halloween! It's Halloween! The moon is full and bright / And we shall see what can't be seen On any other night. Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls, Grinning goblins fighting duels / Werewolves rising from their tombs, Witches on their magic brooms / In masks and gown we haunt the street / And knock on doors for trick or treat / Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh! tonight it's Halloween! - Jack Prelutsky

Halloween celebration without decorations is incomplete. Halloween, the most awaited festival throughout the year just like Christmas is celebrated with great fun and excitement. Wearing scary costumes and decorating the house in most eeriest way adds to the fun during the festive mood. There are many ways to decorate the interior as well as exterior of your house during Halloween. Here are some scary homemade decorations to have a haunted holiday.

Decorations for Halloween

This has been broken up into two sections, namely indoor and outdoor decorations. Take your pick and have a blast this Halloween.

For Indoor Decoration

Bat Silhouettes
If you have decided to wear a bat Halloween costumes, then why not decorate the house in the same way with scary decorations. As we know that shadows and darkness are symbolic of Halloween, so black paper bat silhouettes are the best decorations to haunt the house with lurching shadows and calamitous black bats. Draw bats of different sizes on the black chart paper to create an illusion that some are far away and some are near. Draw some bats in a flying position to stick them all around and few in hanging position to stick on windows and doors.

Creepy Candle Shadows
The bright day ends followed by the dark and a miserable night and candles with crazy silhouettes popping out would be very scary. These creepy decorations cast dramatic shadows all around the room. Draw few silhouettes on a black construction paper and cut it with utility knife. Stick it to one end of the wire and make a loop at the other end so that it fits around the bottom of the candle holder. Now bend the wire and position the image in such a way that it is above the candle and away from the flame. You can adjust the cutout to bring variations in the size of the shadows.

Pumpkin Vase
Some simple Halloween crafts, especially Halloween decorations can add beauty and joy to the celebration. Halloween flower vase is simple to make. Take a pumpkin and cut it from the top, take out all its pulp. Put a cylindrical container inside it, pour water and arrange thorny flowers in it. You can also paint outside the pumpkin with different weird images.

For Outdoor Decoration

Frightening Scarecrow
Hey! Do you want to cast a spell over your neighbors? Then, making pumpkin-head scarecrows would be a great idea. You can make a complete family of scarecrows. Take two thick sticks, eight and six feet each and make a cross. If you are making a boy, make him wear a shirt in the horizontal stick and tuck the shirt in the pant that is on the vertical stick. Stuff hay in it and sew the shirt and pant with thread and needle. Place a face carved out of a pumpkin on the top. Make this sculpture stand at the center of your garden.

Glowing Ghosts
You don't even need to collect many things for this, what you require is glow sticks, balloons, white cloth and a black marker. Turn on the glow stick and insert it in the balloon, blow the balloon and tie it properly. Cover the balloon with a piece of white cloth and make the face with marker. Hang the little ghosts on the tree. Such simple outdoor decoration idea can be made quickly and easily.

Demon Footprints
Draw large footprints with sharp nails on a thick chart paper and cut them out. Start sticking it on the ground right from the beginning of the front yard till the entrance of the house.

So these were a few homemade Halloween decorations and Halloween crafts that you can implement and welcome Halloween. You can even follow a theme like graveyard theme, all pumpkin theme, spiders theme, etc., to decorate the house. Enjoy!