Decorations

Outdoor Halloween decorations – Ring Around the Ghosties

Ring Around the Ghosties

This is a really neat looking craft and pretty easy to make with materials you can find around the house, for the most part. They look especially good when circling a central pole, such as a tree or lamppost.

Here are the materials you will need:

• 6 wooden dowels
• Small white garbage bags
• Newspaper
• Masking tape
• Old white sheets
• String
• Black permanent marker

Cut your dowels to the height you’d like your ghosts to be. They can be any size from toddler height which is quite cute to larger than life which is quite spooky! Remember: the larger the ghosts, the more sheets you’ll need to use.

To make a ghost head, stuff a small white garbage or paper bag with crumpled newspaper or leaves to the size you like. Push one of the dowels into the bag, and then wrap masking tape around the neck to secure. Repeat for the rest of the ghosts.

Drape a sheet (or half a sheet, if you’re making small ghosts) over each head and tie a piece of string around each neck. You may need to experiment with cutting your sheets to the right size; here, we used a queen-size sheet for each ghost and rounded the bottom edges to the desired length.

Use permanent black markers to draw a face on each ghost.

Gather your ghosts around the tree or pole — with a foot or two between each one — and push the dowels into the earth so that the sheets touch the ground. Angle the ghosts so that they are leaning slightly backward, and then knot the corners of the sheets together as if the ghosts were holding hands.

Halloween Crafts – Halloween Ornaments with Fun Foam

Fun foam is among the essential craft items, especially among the kids. This Halloween, collect some chunks of fun foam mainly in Halloween colors of black, orange, green and white. Now, draw some ovals and circles on the fun foam. With safety scissors let your child cut them out.

While they are cutting out the base ovals and circles, you can cut shapes from the remaining pieces of fun foam. Cut out patterns like witches, scary cats, bats, ghosts, etc. These shapes can easily be found on the internet. Now stick the varied shapes you just cut on the ovals & circles your child cut earlier. Finally, punch a hole on the top. Put a string in the hole and hang your child’s Halloween ornaments wherever you wish in the house!

Here are the Halloween craft pattern templates we have on our site that you can use for this craft.

Costumes

Homemade Halloween Costumes – Groovy Hippy Costume

Wear a tie-dyed t-shirt, bell bottom jeans and sandals. Add a headband, round wire-frame sunglasses, long haired wig, and fringed vest or jacket. Peace necklaces are available now at stores.

Homemade Halloween Costumes – Pair of Dice Costume

Pair of Dice Costume

Here is a great couples costume!  Paint 2 body size cardboard boxes white. Using black construction paper, cut out a number of circles. Glue them to the white boxes so they look like dice. Cut out openings in the boxes for your head and arms and position your legs at the open end of the box.

Homemade Halloween Costumes – Ghost Costume

Ghost Costume

Begin by using face paint or make up and color dark circles around your eyes. Using a white sheet, cut out holes for your eyes.  The white sheet should be long but not so long that it might trip you.  Use a white pillowcase for a treat bag.

Homemade Halloween Costumes – Spider Costume

Spider Costume

Use black hose and stuff them with something dark and light weight. Either sew or staple the ends to keep the stuffing in place. Pin the hose to the sides of black clothing.  Using face paint, create a spider look and spray your hair gray or black. Add dark sunglasses.

Homemade Halloween Costumes – Train Engineer Costume

Train Engineer Costume:

For a train engineer, wear a pair of blue jeans, a red and black bandana and a blue jean jacket.  Wear a blue and white engineer hat, hold a whistle and lantern and you’re good to go!

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Halloween Crafts

Halloween Crafts – Paper Plate Pumpkin

Paper Plate Pumpkin

This is a super easy craft for even little kids to make. All you need is a paper plate, some orange paint or an orange marker, black and green construction paper, glue, an ice cream stick (craft stick), and some string.

Take the plate and color or paint it completely orange. Let dry. At this point, there are two ways you can approach this. You can choose to make it just a hanging pumpkin or make it into a mask. If you just want a hanging decoration, cut out eyes, nose, and a mouth from the black construction and glue on the front.

You can also make it into a fun mask by cutting out the eyes. If you like, you can also cut out the nose and mouth.

Out of the green construction paper, cut out two leaf shapes to glue at the top for the stem. If you like, you can trace your child’s hand and use those as the leaves. This gives the pumpkin a personal touch and makes it really cute!

For the hanging pumpkin, punch a hole in the top, put some string through the hole, and hang! If you are making a mask you can either glue the craft stick at the bottom or punch a hole in either side of the plate and put a piece of string through each hole which you will tie at the back!

Halloween Crafts – Sheet Ghost

Sheet Ghost

This is the easiest of all ghost crafts. All you need is a white sheet, a balloon, a rubber band, and a black marker. If you want to hang your ghost, you’ll also need some string or a broken rubber band.

Blow up the balloon and place it inside the sheet. Draw a scary face on your ghost, and you are done! To insert string for hanging, just run a threaded needle through the top – don’t pop the balloon! You can also use some string at the bottom to drape him open.

And that’s it – easy as pie!

Outdoor Halloween Decorations – Ghost Bushes

Ghost Bushes

This is a very simple craft that you make from a white sheet, a black marker or black fabric paint, and clothespins. This craft will surely make you the talk of the neighborhood and it is so easy to make, but, of course, you’ll need some bushes to make it work!

Take a plain white sheet and fold it in half. The size of the sheet depends on the size of your bushes! Place newspaper in between the fold and then go to work making the face of your ghost. You can make it scary or fun – it’s all up to you!

Once everything is completely dry, just wrap the sheet around your bush and secure in the back tightly with clothespins. After that, all you have to do is enjoy your neighbor’s compliments!

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