Want to put up some last minute Halloween decorations? Here are some ideas for last minute spooky decorations to make your home look like a haunted house!
Garden Ghouls
How to make this really easy decoration to put at the front of the house next to your pumpkin guaranteed to thrill your trick or treaters!
What you need:
- Balloon
- Medium sized garden cane/ stick
- White bin liner/tissue paper or even an old white sheet
- Black marker pe
How you do it:
- Blow up the balloon
- Secure it to the end of the stick with sellotape/duct tape
- Arrange your tissue paper over the balloon (to be the ghouls head)
- Bunch it in around the neck with more sellotape or string
- Let the rest of the tissue paper hang
- Draw the face on with a marker pen
- Place the stick either in the ground by your front door or in a potted plant to greet your guests when they come trick or treating!
- OR you can hang them in a tree- very spooky!
Spiders Web Windows
What you need:
- Black thread/wool
- Drawing pins
- Cotton wool
How you do it:
- Secure drawing pins around the frame of the window
- Run thread across the window between the pins to make a web
- Hang cotton wool off the thread to look like cobwebs
- If you’re feeling extra creative you can even make a spider out of an egg box and pipe cleaners
Pumpkin Bunting
What you need:
- Orange crepe paper/card
- String
- Felt Tips
How you do it:
- Cut out a load of pumpkin shapes
- Children can paint/draw different faces on the pumpkins
- Depending on the thickness of the card, either make little loops out of string and stick them on the back of the pumpkins with sellotape & thread onto the string, or piece a hole in the top of the pumpkin if the card is thicker and thread the string through.
- This doesn’t have to just be pumpkins! Can be ghosts, witches hats, broomsticks or black cats!
Happy Halloween! 🎃
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