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37 Easy Halloween Crafts Ideas for the Most Boo-Tiful Home Ever

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Our easy Halloween crafts will help create a spooky look for your home—inside and out. You'll find plenty of creative crafts ideas for a fun Halloween. With spooky ghosts, smiling pumpkins, and a few other eerie friends, our Halloween crafts will help you set the scene for a frightful evening.
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Painted Pumpkins with Webbed Shapes

Painted Pumpkins with Webbed Shapes
Credit: Scott Little

Create 3-D designs that resemble spiderwebs on painted pumpkins for a look that will brew major envy in your neighborhood.

Make the Halloween craft: Trace a moon on one pumpkin and a bat on another using a pencil. Leaving the traced shapes unpainted, paint the rest of the moon pumpkin black and the bat pumpkin white. Hammer a crafts nail every ¼ inch around the edges of the moon and bat, making sure the nails are slightly above the surface of the pumpkin. For each pumpkin, randomly wrap string in a contrasting color around the nails to create the webbed design. Finish by looping the string around the adjacent nails to create an outline.

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Colorful Paper Garland

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Turn ordinary paper straws and crafts foam into a DIY bat garland that will turn any mantel into a festive Halloween display.

Make the Halloween craft: Cut pieces of black foam into bat shapes and use a large needle to string them onto a thin rope. To add color, cut Patterned Paper Straws ($9, Amazon) in half and use a needle to string them into a coordinating garland. 

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Spooky Black Cats

Doorway with Halloween décor, cats, moon, stars
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Black cats and Halloween go hand-in-hand. This year, dress up your porch with a few black cats of your own.

Make the Halloween craft: To make the figures, cut cat shapes from black foam core and use tape attach the back side to something heavy  (like a mason jar filled with rocks or sand) so they stand up straight and don't blow over in the fall breeze. Add paper stars and a celestial-inspired wreath to the front door to complete the look.

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Honeycomb Monster Garland

Colorful paper lantern monster garland on wood wall
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Whether you’re prepping for a Halloween party or decorating the mantel, this colorful Halloween garland is our new seasonal go-to.

Make the Halloween craft: Start with a multi pack of Rainbow Honeycomb Shapes, ($13, Amazon), string them together using fishing line or thin twine, then use crafts paper, markers, and googly eyes to add monster features.

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Pom-Pom Monster Wreath

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Once you learn how to make yarn pom-poms, this fuzzy monster wreath comes together in just minutes! All you need is a wire wreath form, a few shades of green yarn, like this 4-Pack of Green Yarn, ($16, Amazon), and a few Oversize Googly Eyes ($6, Amazon).

Make the Halloween craft: Make them pom-poms, then use leftover yarn to tie the poms to the wreath form. Use hot glue to secure the googly eyes. 

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Witch's Cauldron Craft

Witch's Cauldron Craft

Off-the-shelf supplies make a big impact when gathered together to create spooky Halloween crafts. Make this one before your next Halloween party.

Make the Halloween craft: Choose sticker or die-cut letters in a style or size to your liking and hot-glue to a plastic bucket. Pull apart some polyfill and drape inside and to the side of the bucket to imitate bubbly witch's brew.

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Webbed Walkway

Webbed Walkway
Credit: Cameron Sadeghpour

Even if you don't have paving stones, you can re-create this simple Halloween theme pathway to your front door.

Make the Halloween craft: Purchase new pieces of stone in various sizes; piece them together and "draw" a spiderweb using black electrician's tape. Spread the pieces apart and lay on the ground for an "eek" entrance to your home.

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Skeleton Hands Wreath

Skeleton Hands Wreath
Credit: Jacob Fox

Prep a literal round of applause for trick-or-treaters by making this easy Halloween wreath.

Make the Halloween craft: Apply a few even layers of silver spray paint to nine plastic skeleton hands (available at dollar stores). Add a liberal amount of hot glue to the back of the hands and affix in place around a small chalkboard circle. Write a spooky phrase with chalk, and hang the wreath with string.

 

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Blingy “Boo” Pumpkins

Blingy “Boo” Pumpkins
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If you're not a fan of a pumpkin's slimy insides, skip the pumpkin carving and opt for this chic pumpkin decorating idea instead.

Make the Halloween craft: Pick three pumpkins of varying sizes: small, medium, and large. Cut the stems off the two bigger pumpkins. Paint all three pumpkins black. Trace a "B" on the small pumpkin, the first "O" on the midsize pumpkin, and the second "O" on the large pumpkin. For each pumpkin, fill in the letter outline with metal-leaf adhesive and place a silver-leaf sheet on top. Brush the silver leaf in place using a soft bristle brush until no excess leaf remains. Gently brush the silver-leaf letters with a sealer, and outline each letter with decorative tacks. Complete the look by stacking the pumpkins, starting with the largest on bottom.

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Painted and Stacked Pumpkins

Painted and Stacked Pumpkins
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If your decor tends toward the less-scary side, try this clever craft to repurpose ordinary pumpkins. This craft idea for Halloween is chic and will stand out from the scary crowd.

Make the Halloween craft: Purchase real or crafts white pumpkins; trace a design imitating lights on the pumpkins. Using yellow and black crafts paint, fill in the designs. Stack the pumpkins on flea market or new balustrades painted glossy black.

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Framed Spider

Framed Spider
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An inexpensive frame and plastic spider make a creepy combination in this easy Halloween craft.

Make the Halloween craft: Remove and discard the glass from the frame; insert a piece of web-pattern paper cut to size. Using crafts glue, add decorative stripes on an oversize plastic spider. Attach to the paper with a dab of hot glue.

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Pumpkins in Picture Frames

Pumpkins in Picture Frames
Credit: Cameron Sadeghpour

Decorate the front of your house with these alluring, Pinterest-worthy portraits that add a Halloween twist to your outdoor decor.

Make the Halloween craft: Cut an artificial pumpkin in half and spray-paint each half white. Once the paint is dry, stick tape along the natural indents of the pumpkin pieces to create stripes and then spray-paint the halves black. Let the paint dry before removing the tape. Hang the pumpkins and frames using picture hooks.

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Oversize Faux Spiders

Large DIY fuzzy spiders climbing in a line down stairs
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Our DIY giant spiders can be made in three different sizes so you can easily decorate any space in the house—even the roof! We used the small size here.

Make the Halloween craft: Create the body of the spider using halved foam balls, then use wire and foam tubing to create the spider legs. Add hairy brown fabric to the body (attach with hot glue) and you'll have a whole gang of spiders to place around the house.

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Vintage Magnifying Glasses

Vintage Magnifying Glasses
Credit: David Prince
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Magnify the fun on your beverage table or buffet with this spellbinding centerpiece.

Make the Halloween craft: Adhere our small, medium, and large downloadable vintage images to magnifying glasses. Place the magnifying glasses on a newspaper or book page for a more believable trick.

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DIY Pallet Decorations

Halloween Pallet Signs
Credit: Alice & Lois

Transform ordinary wood palettes with a few strokes of paint! This Halloween project couldn't be easier.

Make the Halloween craft: Cover a wood pallet board with white paint, then freehand three ovals in black paint to form a ghost face. Repeat with orange paint and create a smiling jack-o-lantern to match.

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Spooky Halloween Wreath

diy black halloween wreath with spider on wood door
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This spooky Halloween door decoration couldn’t be easier to create! This DIY spider wreath is made from a simple grapevine wreath, spray paint, and a wood bead spider.

Make the Halloween craft: Pick up a plain grapevine wreath and spray paint it black. To make the spider, string together a few Natural Wood Beads ($16, Amazon) and paint the creature black too. We attached everything on our wreath with hot glue, but you could use wire as well. 

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Paper Lanterns and Bats

Paper Lanterns and Bats
Credit: Cameron Sadeghpour

Looking for Halloween paper crafts? A cute and clever collection of crafts and party basics lends this fall front porch an enviable sense of Halloween style.

Make the Halloween craft: Paper lanterns—black, silver, and white—hung at alternating heights offer visual interest and a backdrop to a few "sleeping" cut-out paper bats. Plastic spiders scatter across a trio of simple pillows with the aid of hot glue.

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Silhouette Hands and Feet

Silhouette Hands and Feet
Credit: Adam Albright 

Equal parts humorous and Halloween-themed, this ingenious outdoor Halloween craft is great for a shed or a garage, or even a series of front yard windows.

Make the Halloween craft: You'll need bright colored cardstock or tissue paper and black cardstock. Cut out the bright color to fit the windows; set aside. Cut outlines of hands and feet from the black cardstock. Attach the hands to the bright cardstock and adhere to the windows using removable tape. Attach the feet to the base of the door or house.

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Bug Plates

Bug Plates
Credit: Brie Williams
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Use orphaned plates and platters to create dishes with ginormous insects.

Make the Halloween craft: Download our free images, below, then use them to create custom decals that work on smooth, nonpourous surfaces. Follow the decal-paper manufacturer's instructions to transfer the images. Then stick the decals to the dishes and spray on a coat of clear high-gloss acrylic finish. Hang your infested dishes in a swarm for intimidating impact.

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Spiderweb Doormat

Spiderweb Doormat
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Set the mood for a spooky event and welcome guests to your home with this easy spiderweb doormat idea.

Make the Halloween craft: First, cut a 3x4-foot mat into a 36-inch diameter circle with heavy shears. Using chalk, draw a spiderweb on the mat. Cut pieces of clothesline to fit your design. Singe the ends of the clothesline to keep them from fraying. Use heavy-duty white glue to adhere the pieces to the mat, covering the chalk lines.

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Propped Halloween Ladder

Propped Halloween Ladder
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The great thing about Halloween is that you can lower or boost your scary decor based on your own preferences—or your kids’ ages. Here, the vibe is decidedly friendly, thanks to the collection of smiley-faced carved pumpkins and gourds, stacked cleverly on half of an old ladder.

Make the Halloween craft: Select carvable elements that vary in shape and size for visual interest, and tuck in other seasonal accents—here, crows—around the pumpkins.

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Bright and Cheery Halloween

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Halloween crafts and decor don’t need to be scary and dark. This adorable gathering of colors and images offers a humorous hint to traditional holiday colors and images.

Make the Halloween craft:

Create your own silhouettes of family members (cast a light against a wall and trace the outline of their heads) or download silhouettes of your choice from the Internet. Mount on bright cardstock and add patterned tape as borders. Create another design on the wall out of more patterned tape. On the mantel, collect a few old-fashioned plastic treat buckets and other paper accents, such as an accordion fan. Drape honeycomb garland in seasonal hues, too.

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Skeleton Wreath

Skeleton Wreath
Credit: Jacob Fox

Its just-right scary aesthetic belies the simple construction of this spooky-theme wreath.

Make the Halloween craft: Purchase a premade wreath—this one is made of grapevine. Using acrylic spray paint, lightly cover with paint; when almost dry, rub off bits of the paint with sandpaper for a rough look. Tuck in a bit of grown moss as well as a few Halloween-theme accents—here, a miniature crow, a small skeleton, some spiders, and a sign. You also can change the accents to make them more or less scary depending on the rest of your decor.

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Slithering Snake Doormat

Slithering Snake Doormat
Credit: Adam Albright

This scream-worthy doormat is perfect for scaring trick-or-treaters on Halloween night.

Make the Halloween craft:

Spray-paint rubber snakes glossy black. Cut the snakes in two, creating different lengths. Arrange the snakes along the edges of a thick plastic-foam board so some are slithering in under the mat and some are slithering out. Glue the snakes to the board's edges. Set the foam board under your doormat, and arrange the snakes to their fullest spooking potential.

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Skeleton Figure

Skeleton Figure
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Pieces of plastic hands and a skull make a creepy entrance in this outdoor skeleton decor idea.

Make the Halloween craft: Prop up an odd-shape piece of hardscape material at an angle. (In place of heavy rock, use a piece of foam core, painted and streaked gray.) Tuck skeleton hands and skull, and feet if desired, in a pose and scatter fallen leaves around the scene.

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A Glittery, Scary Mantel

halloween decorated Mantel
Credit: Brie Williams

A few well-chosen accents can transition from Halloween into Thanksgiving, and give you a chance to flex your crafty muscles, too.

Make the Halloween craft: Gold makes an impact in this vignette: Using gold paper, accordion-fold half sheets and attach to sticks for a fan display. Paint a few frames—some black, some gold—as well as other accents of your choosing (here, a few masks). Look for gold-foil leaves or paint some faux options to glue to a ribbon for a homemade garland. Once Halloween is over, swap in some pretty bursts of color—flowers and dried seeds, for example—to transition to Thanksgiving.

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All-Eyes-on-It Wreath

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Once you get the hang of them, rolled felt flowers are easy to make and a fun way to decorate a premade wreath form.

Make the Halloween craft: Cut a square of felt—start with 5 inches—and round the corners. Cut the square spirally, until you end at the center. Begin rolling at the outer edge, hot-gluing as you go, to create the flower. When you reach the center piece, glue it to the bottom to hold in place. Attach the felt flowers to a wreath form in a color pattern of your choosing. Add googly eyes as desired and a pretty patterned bow for a visual accent.

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Spider Luminarias

Halloween Luminaries
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Simple, Halloween-theme luminarias lead the way to trick-or-treating fun.

Make the Halloween craft: Decorate white paper bags with spider rub-ons, stickers, or trims. Fill the bottoms of the bags with sand, and place them on stairs or along a walkway. Rather than real candles, we used battery-operated votive candles for safety. Push the candles into the sand for stability.

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Spiderweb Treat Boxes

Spiderweb Treat Boxes
Credit: David Prince

Let guests (or even trick-or-treaters!) scoop up their favorite treats from these tantalizing boxes.

Make the Halloween craft: Add a coat of white paint to small peat pots. Glue black trim around the top of each pot, finish with a spiderweb die cut, then fill with your favorite Halloween candies.

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Ghostly Welcome

Front Entry Ghosts
Credit: Kathryn Gamble

Welcome trick-or-treaters to your home this Halloween with an eerie trio of floating ghost crafts.

Make the Halloween craft:

Buy three white plastic bowls and predrill holes in the bottom centers. Run twine or fishing line through the holes and anchor with duct tape. Cut two large squares of white cotton cloth, snip holes in the centers, and thread onto the overturned bowl. Cut black felt facial features, adhere with hot glue, and hang ghosts on your front porch or entryway.

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Aluminum Candleholders

Aluminum Candleholders
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Flickering candlelight is perfect for sharing ghost stories. We used sheets of decorative aluminum to cast spooky shadows long into the night.

Make the Halloween craft: Cut the sheets into strips with tin snips. Use food containers, such as soup cans, to figure out your dimensions. A 10x17-inch piece makes a large lantern; a 4x10-inch strip makes a votive.

Roll the strips into cylinders, using the food containers as molds. To secure, twist wire through the mesh at the top, middle, and bottom of the seams. Turn edges of wire to inside and trim excess. Spray surfaces with two coats of black primer; let dry between applications.

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Spooky No-Sew Cat Tablecloth

cat tablecloth
Credit: Steven Randazzo
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This hair-raising tablecloth can be made in minutes with our scaredy-cat pattern.

Make the Halloween craft: Download our free pattern and cut out the cat shapes from black felt. Attach the shapes to a large piece of gold felt using fusible web or fabric glue to finish the tablecloth.

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Spooky Lantern Silhouettes

Lantern Silhouettes
Credit: Monica Buck 
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Light up your living room with these Halloween-inspired silhouette lanterns.

Make the Halloween craft: Print the silhouettes and trace onto the back side of vinyl or adhesive shelf liner. Cut out the shapes and adhere to the lanterns. Fill with moss, candles, and miniature gourds to finish.

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Haunted Paper Tree Mural

Haunted Paper Tree Mural
Credit: David Prince

This spectacular paper tree makes the perfect display for hanging trick-or-treat bags or the best backdrop to a fun DIY photo station at a Halloween-theme party.

Make the Halloween craft: Begin by laying sheets of black construction paper side-by-side on the floor until you have enough to create the size of tree you want to make, then cut it out and tape together. Add paper animals for a truly spooky Halloween display. 

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Striped Spider Wreath

Striped Spider Wreath
Credit: Cameron Sadeghpour

You've never seen a creepy-crawly look this fabulous, but a store-bought glittery spider on an orange web makes a stunning statement on this under-$5 Halloween wreath.

Make the Halloween craft: Mark even sections on a plastic foam wreath form using a ruler and a pencil. For each section, hot-glue the end of a long piece of yarn to the back of the wreath form and begin wrapping the section with yarn, alternating black yarn and white yarn. At the end of each section, cut the yarn and hot-glue its end to the back of the wreath. Add a purchased spider web decoration to the center of the wreath.

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Raven Wreath

Raven Wreath
Credit: Kritsada Panichgul

Give guests a fright with an ominous raven wreath covered in feathers. This craft for Halloween is simple, but makes a spooky statement!

Make the Halloween craft: Cover a rectangle wreath form in faux black feathers (look for a black feather boa at the crafts store) and attach the feathers with hot glue. Add a faux bird and hang the wreath with a few layered black and white ribbons.

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Spooky Painted Birdhouses

Spooky Painted Birdhouses
Credit: Greg Scheidemann

Welcome guests to your home with a haunted birdhouse town that is full of Halloween charm (and a few plastic spiders).

Make the Halloween craft: Round up an array of wooden birdhouses and coat them with glossy black and matte gray spray paint. Position your tiny town on a vibrant orange bench, and garnish the display with an eerie branch and mini pumpkins. Use adhesive to secure the spiders in place.

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    5 of 37 Pom-Pom Monster Wreath
    6 of 37 Witch's Cauldron Craft
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    13 of 37 Oversize Faux Spiders
    14 of 37 Vintage Magnifying Glasses
    15 of 37 DIY Pallet Decorations
    16 of 37 Spooky Halloween Wreath
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    19 of 37 Bug Plates
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    21 of 37 Propped Halloween Ladder
    22 of 37 Bright and Cheery Halloween
    23 of 37 Skeleton Wreath
    24 of 37 Slithering Snake Doormat
    25 of 37 Skeleton Figure
    26 of 37 A Glittery, Scary Mantel
    27 of 37 All-Eyes-on-It Wreath
    28 of 37 Spider Luminarias
    29 of 37 Spiderweb Treat Boxes
    30 of 37 Ghostly Welcome
    31 of 37 Aluminum Candleholders
    32 of 37 Spooky No-Sew Cat Tablecloth
    33 of 37 Spooky Lantern Silhouettes
    34 of 37 Haunted Paper Tree Mural
    35 of 37 Striped Spider Wreath
    36 of 37 Raven Wreath
    37 of 37 Spooky Painted Birdhouses

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