From wicked witch leg doormats to Day of the Dead pumpkins, these 10 horribly easy homemade Halloween decorations are brilliant fun to make with your kids!
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Halloween is a firm favourite with kids every year (nothing to do with all that candy…), and decorating the house is always part of the fun. Whether you dig out the same bunting and skeletons every year or fancy trying something new, this list has plenty of easy, budget-friendly ideas the whole family can make together.
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Easy Homemade Halloween Decorations
Wicked Witch Doormat
Image: Parents.com
This fun idea from Parents.com uses striped stockings, stuffed and paired with witchy shoes, tucked under the doormat for a spooky welcome. You could also pop your witchy legs into a flower or plant pot (upside down, of course).
Paper Roll Spooky Eyes
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Make spooky eyes out of toilet or kitchen roll holders. Cut out different pairs of eyes, then place glow sticks inside and tuck them into bushes and trees to spook out passers-by.
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Tombstones Halloween Decoration
Image: BHG.com
This fun idea from BHG.com makes a graveyard of tombstones for the garden by painting foam board black and adding funny inscriptions in white paint pen.
Glowing Face Masks
Image: Pinterest
This is a spookily effective decoration idea. Pick up some craft masks and hang them outside on a wall with glow sticks or battery-operated tea lights inside, so they glow eerily once it gets dark.
Broom Parking Station
Image: Hubpages
This idea from Hubpages makes a Broom Parking station using a few cheap brooms and a homemade sign with a Halloween pun — “all others will be toad”.
Halloween Light Tree
Image: Homemidi
This idea from Homemidi lets you double up your outdoor lighting for both Halloween and Christmas. Wrap your tree in lights, add Halloween touches like a spooky web, then simply swap the decorations for Christmas ones once Halloween is over.
Halloween Door Silhouettes
Image: Instructables
These door silhouettes look brilliant and would definitely turn heads on the street. Full instructions are on Instructables — they used thin plywood, but sturdy cardboard panels would work just as well.
Halloween Bat Staircase Decoration
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A simple but effective idea — wrap orange Halloween lights around your banister and stick bat shapes to the wall. This makes a great afternoon craft project: get the kids cutting out lots of bats, or pick up ready-made bat sticker sets on Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com. (If you buy through our Amazon links, we get a small commission.)
Halloween Spiderweb Doorway
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Make a cool spiderweb door decoration by constructing the web from white string, then adding lots of different sized toy spiders. (That big one is genuinely creepy!)
Day of the Dead Pumpkins
To celebrate the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos, which falls close to Halloween, try making Day of the Dead decorations for your pumpkins. You’ll need white and coloured paints to create sugar skull designs.
Abbey Co Seattle has a step-by-step for how they did theirs, and BHG has a full tutorial for a carved and painted version, including how to decorate a sugar skull pumpkin, with a free printable stencil.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need lots of craft skills to make these Halloween decorations?
Not at all. Every idea on this list uses simple materials and techniques — painting, stuffing old tights, cutting card, or threading string — so they’re achievable for parents and kids working together, whatever your skill level.
Are these decorations budget-friendly?
Yes. Most use things you may already have at home (old tights, cardboard, string, paint) or cheap items from a discount store, like the broom parking station or paper roll spooky eyes.
Can younger kids help make these?
Many of these are great family projects. Painting pumpkins, cutting out bat shapes, and stuffing witch legs are all easy enough for younger children to join in with, while older kids can take on trickier jobs like the door silhouettes.
What if I don’t have pumpkins to paint or carve?
The Day of the Dead pumpkin idea works with any size or shape of pumpkin, real or artificial, so you don’t need anything special to give it a go.
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