To celebrate Halloween in style, the first thing you need to do is set the right festive mood. And you don’t need to spend a fortune to do it. For decorations, you can just use whatever you have on hand or grab a few cheap supplies at any stationery store for a couple of bucks.
Get into the holiday spirit, gather your friends and family, and let’s make some awesome DIY Halloween decorations! After all, we make our own fun. AdmiGram.com has five wonderful, simple ideas to help you easily decorate your party, apartment, or office.
5 Simple DIY Halloween Decoration Ideas
Halloween Paper Pumpkins
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To bring that festive Halloween vibe into your space, you’ll need bright construction paper in shades of orange and yellow, some string, scissors, and glue or paperclips. Use the scissors to cut the paper into wide strips, shape them into pumpkins, and secure the ends with glue or clips. You can use the string to hang your finished pumpkins from a chandelier, curtain rod, or anywhere you like.
Cotton Ball Ghosts
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Depending on what you want to decorate, you can make small ghosts for your computer monitor or larger ones to hang on your front door. For the mini version, you can even use cotton swabs. But if you decide to go big, you’ll need loose cotton balls. Just cut a ghost template out of white paper, shape the cotton into balls, and glue them to the paper. Cut a spooky face out of dark paper, glue it on, and add a piece of string to hang it up.
Halloween Spiders and Webs
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You can transform your office with these creepy spiders in just a couple of minutes. All you need is some string, glue, paperclips, and an inflated balloon or a plastic bottle to help shape the web. Wrap the string around the neck of the bottle or a slightly inflated balloon. Apply glue to the strings and gently blow on them to help the glue set. Carefully remove the web from the bottle or deflate the balloon. If the web gets a little misshapen, don’t worry — it actually makes it look even more realistic! Hang it from a chandelier and attach a few spiders made out of paperclips.
Ghost Balloons
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If you don’t feel like messing with paper and glue, ghost balloons are here to save the day. All you need to do is buy ready-made helium balloons or grab a balloon kit with a portable helium tank at a toy store. The first option is, of course, cheaper and easier. Once you have your helium balloons, just bring them to life with a black sharpie. To make your ghosts look even cooler, buy some shiny wrapping paper at a flower shop, cut it into fringes, and attach it to the bottom of the balloons.
Spider Lairs
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If you have some dark flower pot saucers lying around, it’s time to turn them into a cool Halloween craft. You can also use a disposable paper plate painted black with a marker as a “spider lair.” Depending on the thickness of your string and your patience, you can weave either a simple web or a more complex one. After that, just cut a spider out of paper and glue it onto the web.
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