Halloween Ornaments and Decorations

Halloween is near, so you must be planning to deck up your home and set the spooky scene that’s perfect for this occasion. Look out for some ideas on ornaments or decorations that are sure to create the frights and delights on this festive season.

Ideas for Halloween Ornaments and Decorations

Given below are some ideas on how you can adorn your home during this spooktacular festival:

Door and Porch Decor

Halloween-themed paper lanterns: Deck up a white paper lantern with lengths of black ribbon spread along its surface.

Print jack-o-lanterns with templates obtained from different websites.

Paste these jack-o-lanterns onto the white paper lantern. Hang the white paper lanterns to your porch to give a warm welcome to your guests.

Bountiful door decor: Halloween is the harvest festival. So, decorate your doorway this season with items that reflect the bounties of nature. Pumpkins, gourds, flowers, and squash can be used for a bountiful decor at your doorstep. Paint jack-o-lantern faces on the pumpkins and gourds for a fancy decor.

Jack-o-lantern door display: A unique way to adorn your front door is by dressing it with jack-o-lanterns. Create jack-o-lanterns with foam pumpkins,

paint the facial features, and create the silk leaves and bittersweet. Give your decorations a spooky touch by placing an artificial crow on the top.

Doorstep urn display: Create Halloween ornaments out of inexpensive urns available in crafts stores. Apply spray paints on the urns and fill them with cotton batting and crafts foam. Glue white branches to the foam. Cut off pieces from a construction paper to create bats, black webbing, creepy spiders, and fabric leaves for a scary sight.

Frightful decor on front door: If you’re willing to decorate your home and set a dark mood, cut black paper of the size of your windows and door glass. Trace and cut out shapes of structures associated with Halloween. Cover the cutouts by a yellow tissue paper. This is to ensure that your groovy designs look bright in the interior lights. To add a special touch to your decorations, place a series of glowing pumpkins along the way to your door.

Frightful mummies: Set the scene for a frightful experience by placing dirt-stained mummies at the door. Use plywood to create the framework for the mummy figures which are covered with muslin and have wig-head skulls.

Outdoor Halloween Decorations

Skeletons playing croquet: Create horrifying skeletons busy playing croquet for a scary makeover of your garden. Just tie the skeletons to long stakes on the ground with the help of fishing lines. Use the fishing lines to fix the croquet mallets to the skeletons. Place a glass of drink on one hand of a skeleton seated on a lawn chair. One of the best ideas to liven up the décor is to place the skeletons in different poses, which will keep passers-by guessing as to what’s going on exactly!

Outdoor decor with pumpkins: Pumpkins are one of the popular Halloween ornaments. You can actually use them for a variety of decorations, be it for your front door, lawn or home interior. Paint uncarved pumpkins and trace letters with stencils so as to engrave scary words like “danger” and “caution” onto their front part. Just place the pumpkins on your walkway, and your neighbors will find it attractive indeed!

One of the Halloween decor items that can brighten up your festivities is a lantern pumpkin. To create such lanterns for illuminating your front step, simply carve long triangles onto the pumpkins. Place candles inside the pumpkins so that they look like Chinese lanterns. Keep the pumpkin lanterns in the garden urn adorned with autumn leaves and berry vines.

Hanging bats decor: A host of creepy creatures can help create a frightening landscape in your yard. What you can do is create a bats’ cave with the following tools and materials.

Tools and materials:

Half-bat template Bone folder Thick black paper Painters’ tape Instructions:

Print a half-bat template.
Fold thick black paper down its middle part.
Keep the half-bat template on the fold and trace.
Cut out the bat-shaped structure and unfold the black paper.
Crease the wings with a bone folder.
Make holes in the tail, head, or wings to create bats that are upside down or which have their right side up.
Hang the bats from the ceiling with painters’ tape.

Wagon wheel: Place small pumpkins and gourds in between the spokes of an old-fashioned wagon wheel. Just place the wheel against a tree so as to give a rustic touch to your backyard.

Indoor Halloween Ornaments and Decor

Webbed chandelier: Use an old umbrella to create a light fixture. Get rid of its fabric cover and create a spider web over the ribs. Just fix some plastic spiders and battery-operated lanterns to the ribs with bent wires. Tie a rope around the handle of the umbrella. Hang the webbed chandelier from the ceiling with the help of a plant hook.

Bouquet of fright: One of the creepy Halloween decorations is a bouquet of fright. Get a bunch of roses with black feathers and place them in a vase which has black netting. Place a few plastic spiders for a scary sight. Spooky table decorations: Unleash your creativity with some exciting crafts to decorate your table during this special event. Get an orange tablecloth with scary cat patterns cut from black felt. Glue the cutouts to the cloth to create the perfect table decor for this festive season.

One of the interesting table decor ideas is to craft a fenced-in centerpiece. Create a yard with miniature fencing and place Spanish moss, gourds, and pumpkins within it. Place some ghoulish figures like a black cat or a turkey for the fear factor.

As an alternative to the above option, you may create a fall foliage tree centerpiece. Get some branches from your yard or the nearby florist’s shop and place them in a decorative pot with fall leaves. Fill the pot with rocks and moss. Glue the fall leaves to card stock pieces and tie them to the branches. This item can be used for table and window decorations.

One of the interesting ideas for Halloween ornaments is a mummy head centerpiece. All you have to do is place self-made mummy heads over votive candles run by battery. Take some uncanny craniums and place them on glass stands. This will make the perfect centerpiece for your party table on this festive occasion.

How to prepare mummy head decor

Blow up balloons to the size you prefer.
Spray nonstick cooking spray on the balloons.
Cut a plaster cloth into strips having 1 inch width.
Smooth the surface of the cloth with your fingers.
Decorate the balloon with such strips of cloth placed in a crisscross pattern while leaving some vacant space on it.
After drying, pop the balloon.
Remove it from within the mummy head.
Make a hole in the bottom of the head so that you can place the votive candle.

Witch Head Vase: Fill a tall vase with feathers and branches and tie them from the ceiling to make it look like a pointy hat. Decorate the vase with a green mask to create the face of the witch. Place it in the front hall in order to give a surprise greeting to your guests.

Halloween Decorations and Crafts by Kids

Floral treat: Provide your kids with a jar filled with candy corn. Let them place a small waterproof container with floral foams and chartreuse spider mums inside the jar. That’s how they can create a floral treat on this special event.

Creating spooky figures: Let your kids cut circles in black and orange colors from a construction paper so as to create witches and pumpkins. Use these Halloween crafts and give your home a groovy look!

Boo in the face: Your kids may love to paint uncarved pumpkins white. Help them create peering eyes using different colors to make a funny yet scary home decor item.

Decorative banner: Let your kids create a banner with which they can greet your party guests on this festive occasion. They can type the words “Happy Halloween” in computer by using special fonts with a larger size. Help them print out the letters individually. Then trace these letters on black cardstock. Then cut out the pieces of letters and add grommets to the topmost point of each letter.

Arrange the letters in a black ribbon to create the banner. Tie the extreme ends of the black ribbon with an orange ribbon and form a bow. Fix the ends of the ribbons with two hooks on the wall of your room.

These Halloween ornaments are sure to give a unique look to your home and its surroundings during this spooktacular event.