You can celebrate Halloween by not just dressing up as your favorite horror film character, but by also decorating your residential spaces indoors and outdoors. There are store-bought decorations you can quickly set up, however, most can be pretty common and may not be your style. This is where DIY Halloween home decor can make you feel the spirit of this festivity.
Cost-effective and personalized, a DIY Halloween home decor ensures that you can customize the fright level that suits your household without splurging too much, considering Christmas is also just around the corner.
That said, here are 5 DIY Halloween home decor using beginner-friendly materials that you can try at home.
Whether you're an avid Halloween enjoyer or a newbie trying to spice up your home during this holiday, you can try these DIY Halloween home decorations that will make your space spooktacular.
1. Balloon Ghosts
When you think about Halloween, ghosts are the first thing that comes to your mind. Luckily, this is an easy DIY Halloween home decor you can try, based on Parade Home and Garden's list. Simply inflate a medium-sized balloon with air (not Helium) and stick it on a used water bottle's mouth. Make sure it stays upright and then cover these balloons with large and crumpled tissue papers with two eyes drawn by markers.
(Photo : Screenshot from Parade Home and Garden)2. Spooky Flowers
If you have plants around the house, this is the perfect time to turn them into eerie home decor. Also taken from Parade Home and Garden's list, you can simply print out eyes or draw them, if you can make them as realistic as possible, and paste them at the center of each flower. Make sure not to use harmful glue if you plan on using real plants.
(Photo : Screenshot from Parade Home and Garden)3. Tombstone Chairs
There's no other way to celebrate Halloween than to bring back the dead. Inspired by Good Housekeeping's DIY Halloween home decor, you can cut out letters that say 'R.I.P' with a corresponding date for birth and death and put them on chair covers. Now, your house will look like a scene straight out of Michael Jackson's Thriller music video.
(Photo : Screenshot from Good Housekeeping)4. Balloon Pumpkins
Almost everyone in your neighborhood has pumpkins as a Halloween home decor. You can have them too using orange balloons with drawn faces, as suggested by Good Housekeeping. You can deflate them and hang them outside your door or inflate them and glue them around the fences, it's your call. And once Halloween is done, you can easily throw them in the bin.
(Photo : Screenshot from Good Housekeeping)5. Bloody Hand Candles
Another DIY Halloween home decor from Parade Home and Garden is a bloody hand made up of candles, perfect if you love placing scented candles around the house. Simply get a rubber glove, cut each tip of the fingers for the candle wick, and pour in a melted candle inside. Wait until it's dry and don't forget to add red wax on each fingertip for a gory detail.