Halloween is coming! It is true that these are American festivals and that what we celebrate is All Saints’ Day at the national level, La Castanyada in Catalonia, and Magisto in Galicia. However, celebrating Halloween is the perfect excuse to dress up and have parties at home. Here are some ideas to decorate your house with homemade crafts for a Halloween party.
Doormat of the Witch of the East (The Wizard of Oz)
Let the party begin! But first … Let’s see who dares to enter your home with this rug!
With this craft with which you will take advantage of the doormat in your house, you will surprise your guests as soon as they arrive:
The witch in the photo is just any witch and not the Witch of the East from The Wizard of Oz because her stockings should be black and white and her shoes red, but that also looks great, right?
You will need a doormat, preferably black and white striped socks, pool noodles or papers to fill the socks, and preferably red shoes.
Difficulty level: Easy.
You can also put the legs next to a wall so that it really looks like the house has fallen on top of it:
Terrifying front door
Will they dare to pass the threshold of the door?
Give a gloomy touch to the entrance of the house with a handful of bats that watch over it:
You will need one of these bat silhouettes, black cardboard or felt scissors, and blue tag or masking tape.
Difficulty level: very easy.
Illumination with ghostly garlands
Every party needs proper lighting. If it is a Halloween party, you will also need ghosts … If we put the two ideas together, we have these beautiful garlands of ghosts that are very easy to make, which will serve as a homemade Halloween decoration: you don’t have to be a crafts expert to do this!
You will need a garland of round bulbs, white cloth, white thread, scissors, and a permanent marker.
Difficulty level: easy.
You will need a string of Christmas tree lights, plastic cups, and googly eyes.
Difficulty level: Easy.
If you are more like witches than ghosts, we invite you to make a luminous garland with black cats. It’s very easy to do:
You will need a strip of lights, black cardboard, scissors.
Difficulty level: very easy.
Possessed family
This idea to decorate on Halloween is super original and personalized: print black and white photos of the family and use red garland light bulbs and other details to give you:
You will need a strip of red lights, black and white photos, cotton, scissors.
Difficulty level: easy.
Ice bucket with a pumpkin
Can you think of a more original way to keep your drinks cold on Halloween? Half a pumpkin will suffice for this homemade Halloween decorating idea.
You will need half a pumpkin, a knife to empty it, and ice cubes.
Difficulty level: Very easy.
Centerpieces for Halloween
Another way to decorate the table is to empty a pumpkin and make a nice and original centerpiece for Halloween with it:
You will need a pumpkin, flowers, knife.
Difficulty level: Very easy.
If you don’t want to have to fiddle with a pumpkin, you can just make black paper flowers!
You will need a fountain or vase where to place the flowers, crepe paper, or tissue paper.
Difficulty level: medium.
Platanasmas and Mandalabazas
Not sure what to put for dessert? If you are on a diet or do not want to start cooking pastries, bet on these amazing Platanasmas (Banana-Ghost) and Mandalabazas (Mandarina-Calabaza):
You will need half a banana and chocolate chips or raisins for the Platasmas and mandarins and celery for the Mandalabazas.
Difficulty level: Very easy.
You can also work on it a little more and make ice cream “Platanasmas” like the ones in the photo below:
You will need coconut butter or white chocolate for the topping, raisins for the eyes, and banana.
Difficulty level: Easy.
The broom piñata
With this broom, more than one will ask to be spanked in the ass … And it is filled with candy!
You will need a broomstick, two paper bags per broom, black tape, scissors, candy.
Difficulty level: easy.
Vampiric napkin holder
If in your Halloween celebration there is a dinner in between to sink your teeth into, in your homemade Halloween decoration with crafts you cannot miss these napkin rings. They are nothing more than vampire dentures from the bazaar used as such, but they look great. Also, you can put them on later!
You will need plastic vampire dentures.
Difficulty level: Extremely easy.
Ghostly mirror
A ghost reflected in the mirror! A very original idea and easy to do, with translucent vinyl paper:
You will need translucent vinyl adhesive paper, scissors.
Difficulty level: very easy.
Mummified candles
Let’s continue with the lighting: you already have the ceiling, but some candles give an even more gloomy (but adorable) touch to your house. We propose these two mummy-shaped crafts:
You will need glass jars, gauze, plastic eyes, and candles.
Difficulty level: Very easy.
Boxes or jars with light as an alternative to pumpkins
If you don’t want to use a real pumpkin, you can take a cardboard box and cut it up like one. Once done, you just have to cover it with orange colored paper and put a candle inside:
You will need a cardboard box, orange crepe paper, a candle, scissors.
Difficulty level: easy.
Another option is to use painted glass jars, disguised as pumpkins, and put candles inside:
You will need mason jars, orange paint, a black permanent marker, string, candles.
Difficulty level: medium.
Tortured candles
If the previous craft has seemed too lazy and cute, sign up for this one, because it gives a lot of grief:
You will need white candles, red candles to undo the wax and nails.
Difficulty level: Very easy.
Halloween punch
Every party needs a drink. For Halloween, you can use any punch or sangria recipe to which you later add disgusting toys or disgusting jelly beans; But if you opt for a non-alcoholic drink, we give you the recipe for this one:
Ingredients: 1 can of lemonade, 2 bottles of water, 1 sachet of strawberry Tang, 1/2 cured sugar, 1.5l. of Ginger Ale or tonic, lots of ice, joke eyes, and worm gummies.
Difficulty level: Easy.
Another very original option is to fill a latex or plastic glove and put it in the freezer. The result is a gloomy hand-shaped cube:
Living shrubs
If you have a garden or terrace with some bushes, take advantage of them as a homemade Halloween decoration; they are quite easy to do and the result is quite dark …
You will need kitchen paper tubes, butter, and scissors, red cellophane, a string of Christmas lights.
Difficulty level: Easy.
Halloween gummies basket
What’s Halloween without the treats? Take advantage of this idea to decorate by recycling glass jars; Place them at various points in your house and fill them with jelly beans for your guests to nibble on.
You will need glass jars, black and orange or yellow oil paint, a brush, very wide adhesive tape, permanent marker, knife, plastic-coated wire, and pliers.
Difficulty level: Medium.
Pumpkin-vampire
Use the plastic dentures that you have leftover from the napkin rings to complete your homemade Halloween decoration with this original vampire pumpkin.
You will need a small pumpkin, round headpins, plastic vampire teeth, a dump knife.
Difficulty level: Medium.
Homemade ghosts
How about a REAL ghost figure for your Halloween decor?
To do this, you will first have to mark the shape with a bottle, a ball, and a wire. Then cover it with a cloth and sprinkle it with starch. When it is dry, remove the supports … Tadaaaá!
You will need a bottle, ball, wire, gauze, or transparent cloth and spray starch.
Difficulty level: Easy.
This other craft is much easier to do and the result is more fun:
You will need a white crepe paper bell, black cardboard or black crepe paper (Pinocchio), scissors, gauze.
Difficulty level: Easy.
Tangerine-Pumpkin for drinks
If there has to be something for Halloween, it’s pumpkins. Many pumpkins, even in the drink. So those who want to have a Coca-Cola or an orange Fanta … Put this original “slice” as decoration:
You will need half a tangerine and a knife or sharp cutter.
Difficulty level: Easy.
Homemade cobwebs
Cobwebs cannot be missing in your homemade Halloween decoration. Unless you have not cleaned for months to get them, we recommend that you take note of these two ideas to make these homemade spider webs with crafts:
Making the cobwebs out of garbage bags:
You will need black garbage bags, scissors, and a cello.
Difficulty level: Medium.
You can also use crochet tablecloths as spider webs:
You will need crochet doilies, plastic spiders to decorate.
Difficulty level: Medium.
Or, make the cobwebs with wool; using a water balloon to shape it and blowing it up at the end:
You will need water balloons, glue, wool, plastic spiders to decorate.
Difficulty level: Easy.
Here you can see more information about how to make this homemade Halloween decoration craft with wool.
Homemade Halloween balloons
Don’t miss the balloons! Of course, they are Halloween. That is, they look like ghosts or skeletons:
You will need: white and/or orange balloons and a permanent black marker.
Difficulty level: Very easy.
Ice cubes with insects
Halloween is a party to play jokes, and one of the most famous -especially to make them to older people who are not expecting them- is to serve the drinks with ice cubes that we have put to freeze with plastic figurines of flies, spiders, and other disgusting insects:
You will need an ice bucket, water, and plastic figures of spiders and other insects.
Difficulty level: Extremely easy.
Bloody shot served in a syringe
How about a few shots in one drink? For this, the best way is to inject them with a syringe directly into your throat. For an even more Halloween look, make red cocktails to pretend to be blood:
You will need syringes, red drink (for example Shirley Temple).
Difficulty level: Very easy.
Blood transfusion bags
This idea is super fun and practical also to go out there in disguise. These are bags that mimic those of blood transfusion, which you can fill with red drinks such as Shirley Temple or punch.
We have not found instructions to make them yourself, but these are very cheap and come with little cards to indicate the blood type, a straw, a clip to stop the “blood” flow, and even a funnel to fill them easily.
Terrifying Terrarium
You can make a special terrarium to decorate this Halloween. It is a small terrarium, only instead of having nice motifs inside … It has bugs! (yes, plastic):
You will need glass jars, branches, plastic insects or other dolls, water, glue.
Difficulty level: easy.
Embalmed brain-cauliflower
There is nothing more disgusting than an embalmed brain… Although if you don’t like cauliflower, you probably find it just as disgusting.
Take cauliflower and put it in a vinaigrette like the typical pickles and you will get a homemade Halloween decoration of the most disgusting and that in addition to being a homemade Halloween decoration, it is edible.
You will need 1 cup of wine vinegar, 3 cups of white vinegar, 1 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of salt, 1 tablespoon of black peppercorns, 1 tablespoon of brown mustard seeds, 5 red onions, and 2 heads of cauliflower.
Difficulty level: Medium.
Bloody towel
If your problem is that you need last-minute homemade Halloween decoration … You will only need a towel worth destroying for that purpose:
You will need a towel, red paint, and your hands.
Difficulty level: Very easy.
Spooky leaves
How many ghosts have we already carried? Anyway, they are never enough, and that is why we are going to give you another very easy idea to create them: decorate by recycling tree leaves.
You will need tree leaves and paint.
Difficulty level: Very easy.
Hanging monster eyes
Another very easy craft to do is this last one, which is also quite scary. A garland with giant eyes:
You will need paper plates, a printer, wool, scissors, tape.
Difficulty level: very easy.