5 easy and cheap homemade Halloween decorations!
If you are fed up of spending money each year on Halloween decorations that end up broke, lost or thrown away after the party, then don’t fear because Blossoming Gifts is here! Catch the DIY bug and create some awesome homemade decorations, you can even get the kids involved to help. We have searched high and low to find the most easy homemade decorations to trick out your house for the up and coming holiday! So don’t run off to the shops and spend more money when you can save your pounds with this cheaper alternative and trust me, these homemade decorations will look even better!
Spider Egg Sacks
These globe-shaped spider sacks will have your guests terrified, especially those spider haters. You can make several eight-legged sacks and suspend them at various heights, drape them over curtains, hang from railings, decorate light fixtures and much more!
Materials:
- Foam Egg
- White batting
- White stockings
- Plastic spiders in a various of sizes
- Glue
- Hooks (whatever you need to hang them up with)
Steps:
- To make each egg sac, wrap a foam egg in white batting.
- Pull a white socking over the ball.
- Position smaller plastic spiders inside, between batting and stocking; glue larger ones on the outside.
- Hang from ceiling using hooks or whatever you can find!
Ghostly Lanterns
Ghostly Lanterns are cheap, cheerful and very effective. All you need to do is to draw spooky faces on empty, clean gallon milk jugs with a black marker pen then just fill the jugs with lights. So simple, quick and easy! Decorate your porch or walkway with a ghostly Halloween glow!
Boo Bottles
Raid your recycling bin to make these glass ghosts in four easy steps, you can use any type of bottle you want! First, remove labels and caps from the bottles, but make sure you clean the bottles thoroughly! Next, spray-paint them white, then with a black marker pen draw on scary faces. Lastly, throw in some colorful straws for cute centerpieces.
Cobweb Coasters
Your boo bottles will look even more creepy when they are sitting on these spindly saucers. All you need to do is hook five ‘bobby pins’ (I am sure the women will have quite a few of these lying around!) onto a 3/8-inch flat metal washer. Then, wrap twine around and thread through each bobby pin. Finally, spray-paint everything white for that ghoulish look, and scatter plastic spiders around the table.
Front Door Mummy
Make a scary first impression with this five minute mummy door decoration! Firstly, tape paper streamers to the front door, or any door for that matter, make sure the paper tape is overlapping the strips to give it that ‘wrapped look’. Second, cut sheets of black and white construction paper into circles to make big spooky eyes. Lastly, place the eyes on the top of the door and tape to secure, as easy as that!
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