How to decorate a house for Halloween with your own hands

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

There are many ways to decorate your house for Halloween with your own hands without a major investment. A beautiful, well-thought-out design will give the family a great mood for the whole holiday.

2019 Halloween home decorating ideas

Halloween has been celebrated for centuries. Over the centuries, decorating ideas and traditions have emerged, many of which are associated with nature. Therefore, special attention should be paid to such attributes of the holiday.

First, go to the area in front of the house where you can create unique decorations.

1. Leaves are one of the main attributes of the holiday. Therefore, do not remove fallen leaves for two weeks in order to then make the most of it for decoration.
2. Gather the leaves into a tight, elongated pile and stick your old boots into it. This will depict a leafy dead body in front of the porch.
3. If there are trees near the entrance to the house, decorate them for Halloween 2019 with a spider web of threads, gauze ghosts, spiders and other animals symbolizing the holiday.
4. Be sure to place a scarecrow near the tree and paint it red with paint that simulates blood. It is this scarecrow that should become the main symbol of the holiday. Therefore, special attention should be paid to its decoration.
5. Place the carved pumpkins along the path leading to the house and place the candles inside. Decorate the area near the house with LED strips emitting green, purple or red light, hang lanterns with candles inside or with LED bulbs on trees, bushes and a fence.
6. Decorate the porch with cobwebs, and next to it, place the silhouettes of cats, witches and ghosts, cut from a large piece of cardboard.

Pay special attention to the courtyard and guests who come to your house for Halloween 2019 will be in a festive mood.

How to create a pumpkin decor

Pumpkins with candles inside are considered to be one of the most significant Halloween decorations. And if in Europe they are sold for a penny, and you can buy them in large quantities, in Russia it is very expensive to decorate a house with pumpkins. Therefore, there are many options on how to decorate a house for Halloween with your own hands without a pumpkin, creating an imitation of it that will look chic.

Building Powder Pumpkin

If there is cement lying around in the garage that is idle, we use it to create interesting decorations. To do this, knead 1 kg of building powder to the consistency of sour cream without lumps

We put the composition in an old stocking

We fill it so that we get a round convex shape, and we twist the end into a tourniquet

We tie the workpiece with thick ropes and leave it until the cement has completely solidified

Cut off the excess stocking and remove the ropes. A wonderful gray and white pumpkin is ready

Papier-mâché pumpkin for Halloween 2019

Take the black balloon and inflate it by half. We do not tie the tip, but glue it tightly with a plaster so that air does not come out

We fix a thick thread at the base of the ball and wrap it around the workpiece, fixing it on top and in the middle with tape

We do the same on all sides 4-6 times to create an imitation of the seams on the pumpkin

We remove the plaster and inflate the balloon until the threads cut into it. We close the hole with a plaster

Pour PVA glue into a separate container and, dipping a brush into it, glue strips of newspaper to the ball. For a stable fixation of the future pumpkin, put it on a peanut butter lid or in a shallow plate

We fix the tail made of paper from above

We paint the craft with spray paint orange, and the upper part green. We leave it to dry completely and put it in the place intended for it

Pumpkin made from ready-made materials

In a creative store, we buy a blank in the form of a foam pumpkin. We fix wax crayons along the entire diameter of the white pumpkin with a glue gun

We take a powerful professional hair dryer or a professional construction one and heat the pencils to such an extent that they begin to melt

The paint will spread over the entire surface of the pumpkin, leaving interesting bright patterns

When the workpiece is dry, put a nice plate with treats on it

If you want to quickly carve a pumpkin

Choosing the largest pumpkin you can find in the supermarket. Cut out the inner part.

Feel free to draw large triangles in place of the eyes with a marker on the outer surface. And then move on to the next steps:

We make a deep cut in the place of the mouth in the form of a bow. If it's scary to do everything blindly, download the template on the Internet, translate it onto cardboard and draw outlines along the workpiece

We outline the lines in the form of elongated triangles and cut them out with a sharp knife

Cut off the peel and cut it in half

We stick a toothpick into the slot on the pumpkin and prick the fang on it

We repeat the same steps, filling the mouth of the ghost pumpkin

We make the eyes according to the same principle, inserting the cut out circles and pricking them onto toothpicks

Cut off half of the leg from the old jeans and fill it with crumpled newspaper

We insert a sock filled with paper into the sneaker, and put a denim blank on it

Insert the "leg" into the mouth of the ghost pumpkin and pour red paint over the part of the fabric that is inside, and paint several pumpkin fangs

2019 Halloween gauze ghosts

We take a large bucket and stick two shorter sticks into it on the sides and one long one in the middle. We inflate balloons of any color and fix them on the base.

And then we do the ghost step by step:

Pour good quality PVA glue into a bowl and add the same amount of filtered water. Stir to get a homogeneous mass

We take a large piece of gauze and dip it into the composition. We squeeze and take out

We straighten the fabric and put it on the balls. Leave it to dry completely. Everything here will depend on the quality of the glue and the air temperature in the room where the craft was left

We cut out two identical ovals from black colored paper and attach them in place of the eyes with glue or double-sided tape

We remove the blank from the base and put it on the window or just in the room where the party will take place

2019 Halloween paper decorations

If you are looking for how to decorate a house for Halloween, but want to do it yourself, master classes with step-by-step photos will help you create real miracles out of paper. And most importantly, you can save time and organize your party in a budget and easy way.

Pumpkin surprise

Cut out a circle of any diameter from orange fabric or corrugated paper, but not too small

Pour your favorite sweets into the middle of the pattern and collect in the shape of a circle

We connect the edges with a thin thread, and then a strip of green paper, wrapping it around the protruding tail

Press down on the green tip with your fingers, flattening it to shape

We put such blanks with sweets on the table. So that the guests immediately understand that this is not just a decoration, we cut one of the pumpkins, allowing the sweets to crumble on the table

Decorating with threads and other materials

There are a few more ideas on how to quickly decorate your house for Halloween with your own hands. The options are shown in mini-master classes with photos.

Thematic tableware

It is not necessary to buy glasses decorated for the holiday. We will make them ourselves by arranging glasses for other drinks in the same way.

For this:

1. Cut out triangles and stripes from the oracle.
2. Remove the protective film and fix it on the outside of the glass. It turns out very pretty faces.

If it was not possible to find a black oracle, we cut out the blanks from cardboard and fix them on glasses and glasses for drinks with ordinary or double-sided tape. It will turn out to be no less cute and interesting.

Halloween-themed interior design

These simple and original ideas will help you decide how else you can decorate your house for Halloween with your own hands, working with traditional pictures in the style of the day.

We decorate the walls

To make everything look beautiful, buy a black fabric and fix it with small nails, double-sided tape or safety pins on the wall. Smooth out the folds so that the background is evenly distributed, and leave to sag for 1-2 days.

Then we proceed to the design:

1. Cut out a large diameter circle from cardboard. If you want to make the figure three-dimensional, take a cardboard box and draw a circle, and then glue it over with yellow colored paper.
2. We fix the full moon on a black fabric background.
3. Using templates, drawn independently or downloaded from the Internet and translated onto paper, we cut out silhouettes of bats from double-sided colored cardboard.
4. We attach them to double-sided tape on the yellow silhouette of the moon.
5. If you want more decor, you can cut out silhouettes of houses, trees, cats, owls and other animals from purple and white cardboard and fix them on the wall.
6. We inflate balloons of light shades and draw with a dark marker the eyes, nose and mouth. We hang them in the room against the wall.

You can watch the video for original ideas on how else to decorate your house for Halloween with your own hands. Perhaps some of these ideas will be liked and will be implemented in your home.

There will be many interesting parties on Halloween 2019, which are organized by popular clubs. With these design ideas, you will be able to organize a chic party at home with your closest friends. And believe me, the decoration will be no worse than in a bar or club.