Here’s 5 quick, creative, and cheap ideas to decorate your home for Halloween. Halloween comes next week and here are a few tips to help you get your home ready in a jiffy:
Decorate for Halloween
1. Lighting change – Replace your home’s outdoor lights with orange light bulbs for a festive Halloween look. You can also buy some orange ot purple Halloween string lights to hang near or around your front door. Check out some of the local stores for creative lights like bats or cats to string up in the trees like you would do for the holiday season. Lights are also great around your windows or porch to let the children know you are ready for them.
2. Use old Halloween costumes by creating a few festive scarecrows by stuffing past year’s Halloween costumes with straw and prop up in your yard or pose in a chair. Stuff an old pillowcase with straw to create the head and draw a face with marker or paint. You can also use them inside windows to look as though they are peaking out and looking to frighten the trick and treaters!
3. Use pumpkins & gourds – If you are not up for the time and mess of pumpkin carving, buy an assortment of pumpkins and gourds and draw faces on them with markers or craft paint. It’s a great craft for young kids too. There is always multiple uses for these at Thanksgiving so add some straw bales and/or some cornstalks that can take you through the fall and Thanksgiving season.
4. Give masks new life – Use masks from Halloweens past as decorations for your front door or entryway windows. Back-light them to make them extra spooky. Old sheets can be stuffed and made into ghosts or you can use smaller white garbage bags and stuff the head, put a string around the neck and hang them from a leafless tree!
5. Light your walkway – Use clean, gallon milk jugs to create ghost lights by using a black marker to draw a ghost face on each jug. Fill each jug about halfway with white Christmas lights, which can be strung between the jugs. You can also use the luminaries for Christmas and change up the lights to orange and purple to give them a different effect and using them for another season of fun.
Remember to keep everything well lit and safe going up to your doorway especially with groups of children so they do not stumble or fall. Give the walkway and the door landing as much opoen space as possible. Let your imagination go and remember what you enjoyed as a kid!
