Create a spooky scene with these Halloween decorating ideas

Easy and inexpensive Halloween Decorating that you can do.

Decorating your house for Halloween can be a lot of fun and inexpensive.
When my children were young, decorating for the holidays was required!
They wanted the whole house and front yard turned into a scary scene.

Halloween Decorating for your porch

One of the quickest ways to decorate your front porch is with corn stalks. Just tie three stalks to each post with brown string.

At the base of each grouping of stalks you can add some pumpkins and gourds.

Set a couple of mums into wicker baskets placed on the steps to add a splash of fall coloring

If you have an area like a light post, you can put a couple stalks of corn on the post and place two bales of straw at the base and sprinkle the bales with gourds, pumpkins and mums.

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When you use the corn stalks, peel a few of the ears of corn open to expose the corn. The squirrels will love you and its creates a more realistic Halloween decorating scene.

Wreaths as Halloween decorations

Wreaths are really easy to make if you start with a good base material like grapevine or straw. You can find them inexpensively at your local fabric and craft stores.

Natural Wonder Wreath:
Gather leaves, seed pods, the flowering tops of grass, some small twigs and some acorns or pine cones from around your yard.
Glue the leaves to the wreath base with a hot glue gun. Try to vary the laying of the leaves so they aren't all going in one direction. Add some of the acorns and seed pods so that they are pleasing to your eye.(everyone has different tastes!)Then add some of the grass tops and a few of the twigs.

Straw Based Wreath:
This type of wreath is easy to make and is a great Halloween decoration. Just add a few tiny pumpkins or gourds to the bottom half of the wreath. Add a few leaves into the areas between the pumpkins and you have a beautiful, quick decoration.

Halloween decorating with Spider webs

Spider webs can be strung around the inside of your house as well as outside.

Use old cassette tapes, old vcr tapes or old 8-track tape ribbon as your webbing.

Don't use old typewriter ribbon! It has ink on it.

Drape the ribbon across corners of your porch, windows or in the top corner of doorways.
Add small plastic spiders for a realistic effect.

For inside areas you can use rolled cotton or cotton balls if you stretch them out.
Remember to keep webbing away from any open flames.

If you have an open porch that looks like a picture frame you can use kite string to form the webbing:
Make a circle with a piece of string about the size of a tea plate. This will be the center of the web. Tie a piece of string at each corner of the porch(top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right) bring the string toward the center of the opening and attach them to the small circle you made. Then just keep working strings around the perimeter of the opening towards the center. Once you have a bunch of strings going to the center circle you can start putting in the webbing part. Start close to the center ring and tie off the string on one of the vertical pieces. Work in a clockwise direction and when you get to the next string just wrap the string around it a few times and move onto the next one without cutting the string. Just keep doing this and work your way toward the outside. You don't have to wrap around every vertical string!. Just enough to give it a web shape.

Halloween decorating with Candles

Candles are great for lighting walk ways or brightening up your porch.

MAKE SURE FLAMES ARE SAFELY AWAY FROM ANY MATERIALS THAT CAN BURN.
Simple candle holders can be made from glass jars of various sizes.
Just paint the outside of the jars orange and when dry add a pumpkin face with black paint or with a black marker. Place a tea light inside and you have an easily made Halloween Decoration.

You can sprinkle glitter onto the jar while the paint is still wet to add an extra sparkle to the jar.

Easiest Casket to make

One of the staple items in my yearly Halloween decorating was a casket. I would make a vampire type scarecrow to rest in peace.
Visit your local furniture store and ask them for a large wardrobe box or refrigerator box. Make sure that it has all four sides still intact.
Standing the box up, make a slit in a corner from the top to the bottom. Slice the rest of either the top or the bottom section so that the cardboard will open like a flap.
Paint the inside of the box black or line with black fabric. It doesn't have to be too fancy!

Cover the the outside of the box with grey or brown paint.
Place your scarecrow or vampire into the box and prop it open by either resting his head over the edge of the box or using a small stick.