I haven’t started decorating our home for Halloween this year and truthfully I haven’t done much decorating in the last couple of years now that my boys are teenagers. It was a lot funner to decorate for the holiday when my boys were little and more excited for Halloween and to go Trick or Treating. I mean I do always pull out some of our decorations as it gets closer to Halloween, but just not as much as I have in the past. And so today I thought I’d share some of my past Halloween decorating ideas with you in case you are looking for some fun ideas, and also I’m hoping that this post might inspire myself to do a little bit more Halloween decorating this year as well. 🎃
Idea #1: Decorate your fireplace with ALL of your Halloween Decorations. I think it makes more of a statement if you add a lot of Halloween decorations to one particular space rather than have things spaced out here and there. If you Don’t have a fireplace, then try this idea on a bookshelf, sideboard, or whatever surface you have available. See what fun story you can create.
Idea #2: Add Lots of Bats!! I have these rubber bats from the Dollar Tree and they always make such a statement. Here I have tucked them into shutter doors. You can achieve this same look by tucking them into window blinds, or by just taping them to your walls. Bats are cute taped to a front door as well.
Idea #3: Decorate your kitchen. You may not think to decorate your kitchen for Halloween, but why not? Here I had decorated this little nook in our kitchen and I even set up a fun spot for my boys to eat their dinner.
Idea #4: Give the most attention to your front porch. If you plan to pass out candy to trick or treaters then make sure to have a spooky but welcoming front porch. I think the front porch is the funnest area to decorate for Halloween because it will always be the most seen. Add lots of Pumpkins and decorations to create a fun stop for those little trick or treaters.
Idea #5: Hang up a giant Spider. We have so much fun with this giant spider, as you can see above we have it on our front door and pictured below it’s hanging up in our sunroom window. This spider was a gift from an Uncle years ago, but HERE are some kinda similar ones.
Idea #6: Tilt your Picture frames. This is so simple but fun. Go around your home and tilt your picture frames for a haunted house look. You can also add cobwebs and bugs to them. Even better if you have a whole picture gallery wall like this one: Dollar Store Picture Gallery Wall.
Idea #7: Hang a Skeleton Garland. Another simple idea is to add a strand of skeletons to a shelf or mantle. Take a piece of twine and hang little skeletons from it to create a spooky garland. (THIS ONE HERE is fun and lights up).
Idea #8: Decorate a Coat Rack or Wall Hooks. Hang your Halloween decorations from the coat rack in your entryway. Most likely you have some sort of coat rack in your entryway to begin with. Just move your coats to a temporary location and turn the hooks into a fun display. Hang a leaf garland, rubber snakes, cobwebs, crows and skeletons from the hooks.
Idea #9: Create a Spooky Catch-All basket. Have a catch-all basket or tray where you typically place things like; keys, wallets and glasses? Instead fill it up with feathers, bugs, and other spontaneous curiosities.
Idea #10: Hang a Halloween Wreath. Speaking of feathers, one year I created this Disturbing Bird feather wreath for our front door. My boys collected these feathers and I tucked them into a grapevine wreath and added black crows to it. Creepy, Right? See it here.
Another creepy wreath I’ve created was this SNAKE WREATH. Here, I just tucked rubber snakes into a grapevine wreath that I had spray painted black.
Idea #11: Set up a fun Table scape. You can have fun decorating each place setting by adding rubber snakes in the bowls, leaves and rubber flies scattered about, and my Free Printable Polaroid Name cards.
Find my Free Polaroid Halloween Printable HERE.
Idea #12: Decorate a Pumpkin and use it as Halloween Decorations. The best Halloween Decorations of all are Pumpkins. Place your decorated pumpkins around your home and really that is all you need to have a Halloween decorated house.
How adorable is this Mummy Pumpkin? Find my Instructions to make one HERE.
Idea #13: Re-think your yard art. Sometimes all you need to create Halloween decorations is Black spray paint. This swinging bird garden stake was not intended as Halloween Decorations, it was a rust color before, but after I spray painted it black, it definitely now screams Halloween. Look around your yard, Bird baths, gnomes, owls, etc. could all be made over into Halloween decorations with just a little black spray paint.
Idea #14: Create a Haunted Library Display. On your mantel, or even on a bookshelf, gather your books and create a spooky haunted look with them using cobwebs, spiders and rats. Even better if you have Scary book tittles mixed in. You can also turn the book spines inwards to give the display an overall aged look.
Here is a full look at my Scary Halloween Mantel. See more of it HERE.
Idea #15: Decorate your Chandelier. This chandelier gets decorated for almost every holiday. At Christmas it has snowflakes, for birthdays it has streamers, and for Halloween it has bats or skeletons hanging from it. Do you have a chandelier that you could decorate? Cobwebs around it would be fun too.
Idea #16: Decorate your House Plants. Have you ever thought to decorate your houseplants before? Why not? The leaves are a great spot to add birds, crows and owls, and you can turn the dirt into a mini graveyard by adding skeleton hands, tombstones, or whatever other decorations you already have.
And those are all my ideas for Halloween Decorating. Did you get any new ideas for your decorating? Perhaps I’ll be back to share some more ideas as I decorate our home this year.
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Thanks for stopping by today,
Emily
