It feels like the last minutes before Halloween. You look around, and it seems like everyone else is ready. How in the world are you going to squeeze Halloween into your already overstuffed schedule?
You can start in your front yard with some floating ghosts who invite trick-or-treaters to your door. Then you can dress up the walk, and front door with two can’t miss projects.
Step inside to dress up the entryway with seasonal trimmings that can double as a tablescape for your Halloween party.
At the heart of it all, your very spooky dining room, where a cauldron of bats flitter along the walls. A creepy tablescape hints at the party fun to come, while mummy candies excitedly mark your guests’ places.
Easy Lighted Hanging Ghosts
Let us start in the front yard. You will need a way to let all the trick-or-treaters know you are loaded with candy just waiting for them.
A spooky light is a perfect hook to draw them to your front porch. These clever paper lantern ghosts are irresistible.
Battery-operated lantern lights will keep them lit all night long. Just draw some ghostly faces with a black marker to quickly finish each one.
You can hang them from a convenient tree branch or a shepherd’s hook with a bit of string.
You will need paper lanterns, paper lantern lights, round plastic table covers, black markers, some string, and a place to hang them.
The Easy Lighted Hanging Ghosts are a quick and effective invitation to your Halloween home.
A Creepy Crawly Halloween
Why stop with a wreath? Turn your entire front door into a Halloween statement.
You can make the web from bulky 6 gauge yarn.
Start by making the innermost circle. Next, make the web spokes by tying them to the center ring and taping them to the door.
Once you have your web shape, weave some larger circles around the center.
Spiders are fun and easy.
Use half styrofoam balls that you spray paint black. Chenille stems make up the legs. Poke some holes in the balls to make it easy to insert the legs. Then hot glue the legs in place.
The entire neighborhood will enjoy A Creepy Crawly Halloween when you finish this project.
Easy Halloween Craft Ideas: Milk Jug Ghosts
You can create some seasonal lighting for your porch quickly and easily with this project.
If you have kids at home, you have empty gallon milk jugs. And if you don’t, I bet you know a neighbor who does.
This is a great kid’s craft. You can draw a face for the little ones to color with the marker. While the bigger kids can use their imaginations to create a signature look.
Rocks for ballast and mini lights for illumination wrap up this easy project.
You’ll need some empty milk jugs, a black Sharpie marker, a craft knife, some rocks, and mini lights.
You can turn Easy Halloween Craft Ideas: Milk Jug Ghosts into a fun last-minute family project.
Super Simple Mummy Jam Jar Lanterns
I think everyone has some empty jam or canning jars. You can use them to add a spectral sparkle to your Halloween decor.
They work well as lanterns on an entry hall table. You might put them in the window to invite trick-or-treaters or other guests to your home.
You can make them the luminaries of your Halloween tablescape. Put them on a jet black runner with a gauze strip overlay. Sprinkle some Tanna leaves (bay leaves) as accents.
Who knows, you might even catch sight of Boris Karloff in the shadows.
You’ll need some google eyes. Surgical tape works best, but washi tape works too.
In a few minutes, you will have some Super Simple Mummy Jam Jar Lanterns.
Bats In The Belfry: Easy Halloween DIY
While you’re getting ready for the Halloween party, you might decorate the walls.
Spooky places always seem to have lots of bats. You can create your own colony with this papercraft.
Once you create a template, cutting out duplicate bats is a breeze.
Make sure you use a safe adhesive, so you don’t mark the wall.
You’ll need black cardstock, a bat template, some adhesive to hold them to the wall.
This is the kind of craft you can do while you watch TV. So fire up your favorite reruns while you make some Bats In The Belfry: Easy Halloween DIY.
DIY: Painted Ghost Gourds
This versatile ghostly trio can help you out of any number of last-minute jams.
They would love to guard the entryway candy bowl.
You can invite them to dinner as the focal point of a Halloween tablescape. A short runner, bunched burlap, and some plastic spiders give a splendidly creepy air to your table.
You’ll need some gourds, white spray paint, and a black paint pen. Make sure you give them a couple of coats of paint. You want them completely white.
Give each one of them a face that fits its shape, and you’ll be a success with DIY: Painted Ghost Gourds.
Mummy Candy Bars
Last but least – the treats.
You need something to add a special holiday dash to your party table. But who has time for the whole Martha Stewart treatment?
Candy mummies. They are done in a flash. And they are adorable.
You’ll need some google eyes. Surgical tape works best, but masking tape will do in a pinch.
You could amp up the creativity with some washi tape.
Plus, the kids will love helping you!
Any flat candy makes good Mummy Candy Bars. I’ve even seen the idea done with lollipops!
Final Thoughts
These seven projects can fit into the most crowded schedule. They may even give you a chance to get into the holiday spirit. Best of all, they all work together to create a sure-fire spooky decor.
All in all, you will pull off another successful season with a handful of quick projects.