Upcycle an old black or orange sweater into some Halloween-inspired embroidery.
Make spooky Halloween snow globes with a Mason jar, some glitter, and glycerin. Use a hot glue gun to attach the scene you want inside, like a witch at her cauldron or several monsters lurking. Add the glitter and pour in the glycerin, then hot glue the lid on and you’re done.
Make your own
greeting cards this Halloween with all the sinister ideas you can think up. If you don’t use snail mail anymore, you can also make several
unique cards, print them, and turn them into a clothespin garland as decoration.
Bury a skeleton in the garden, except for his hands. Pose them to look like the skeleton is clawing its way out.
Make your own spooky spirits to hang anywhere you want. Throw long pieces of cheesecloth over mannequin heads, hang them from the ceiling, and you’re done.
One of the easiest Halloween craft ideas is also one of the coolest. Set dozens of slithering toy snakes under the edges of your welcome mat, and this scream-worthy craft will get plenty of reactions on Trick-or-Treat.
Start with a prop witch’s cauldron, then fill it with purple, green, and orange ornaments. To give it an overflowing, bubbling look, glue several ornaments to the cauldron’s lip with even more “pouring” down one side.
Collect bendy but still dead-looking twigs from the yard, then fashion them into a wreath. Spray paint the wreath and add some fake spiderwebs for good measure.
Make bat cutouts from black construction paper and attach them to the sconces all around your home. This simple addition turns existing décor into something frightful.
Spice scent sachets are like portable potpourri, and you can make them extra seasonal by using cinnamon and cloves for that unmistakable autumnal aroma.
Wrap your whole front door in cheesecloth, leaving just enough space in a slit at the top for a pair of googly eyes.
Cut out a great big silhouette of a witch and set it in front of one of your upstairs windows. Backlight it every night with a creepy orange lightbulb until after Hallow’s Eve.
Halloween paper craft ideas include lots of cutouts used in glowing lanterns. For this idea, fashion construction paper into small square half boxes in alternating colors of black, silver, and white. Set them out one after the next along your mantel or up the garden path and illuminate each with battery-operated tealights.
Wooden ladders aren’t only for chic towel storage in interior design magazines, they’re also a Halloween craft prop. Lean a small ladder against a wall and use its rungs to set up your completed Halloween crafts. There might even be space for some miniature Jack-o-lanterns.
Attach a faux raven to a big wreath and hang it in your doorway for a sinister statement.
Turn your door into a monster with big sheets of colorful paper taped up as the skin and a massive monster face drawn on top.
