If you’re looking for really frugal ways to decorate your home this spooky season, this list of Easy DIY Halloween Decorations will give you some great ideas. There are mason jar ghosts, wooden pumpkins, and more.
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When we lived in the apartment, we had a ton of Halloween decorations. I took them out every year that we lived there and decorated our entire apartment.
When we moved into our house, I packed all those decorations into a box that we put in the attic. Well, what we didn’t realize at the time is our attic is a real pain in the neck to get to. You need to get a ladder and slide a wooden door and really, it’s just not worth it.
So, I’ve had to get a little creative to decorate. Oh, sure, I could have purchased a ton of new decorations, but that’s not the best thing for my budget. So, instead, I made a bunch of DIY decorations that I put out every year (along with a random string of orange string lights that my mom gave us after we moved in, so it never made it to the attic).
If your decorations are stuck in some weird purgatory like mine, if you don’t want to pay money for decorations, or if you’re just looking for some crafts to make before Halloween, you’ve come to the right place. This list is filled with easy Halloween decorations that you can make.
Decorations aren’t the only Halloween things you can make yourself. You can make small gifts for trick or treaters or your party guests too. Our DIY Halloween Party Favors post is filled with great ideas.
Easy DIY Halloween Decorations
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DIY Spooky Halloween Soap
An easy way to dress up your bathroom is with our DIY Spooky Halloween Soap.
Cut the ring portion off plastic spider rings, then stick the plastic spiders into hand soap. Put the hand soap on your sink. That’s it. That’s the whole craft. I told you it was easy.
DIY Paper Pumpkin
A few strips of paper and a little bit of twine is all you need to make these DIY Paper Pumpkins. You can change the sizes by changing the size of the strips of paper you use.
These work as great indoor decorations, out of the reach of tiny hands that may crush them (because they’re pretty delicate).
DIY Mason Jar Ghost
You can very easily turn a glass jar into ghost with some paint. Just follow the super simple directions in our DIY Mason Jar Ghost tutorial.
The post says to use a mason jar, but you could upcycle any glass jar (like from spaghetti sauce) to make this craft even more budget friendly.
DIY Card Stock Skeleton
Cut black and white poster board into bones to make our DIY Card Stock Skeleton.
We stick this on our front door and have for the last few years. It hasn’t gotten ruined by the weather or faded from the sun at all.
DIY Mix And Match Wooden Pumpkin Face Decoration
One of the most fun Halloween decorations we’ve ever made is our DIY Mix And Match Wooden Pumpkin Face Decoration.
Different pieces of jack-o-lantern faces are painted on pieces of scrap wood. You can mix and match them. There’s nearly endless ways to change the expression (there’s over 200 combinations), so you can change it every day from when you make it until Halloween.
Wine Cork Ghosts
If you’re looking for an excuse to drink some wine, say you’re doing it to save the corks to make these Wine Cork Ghosts. They’re the perfect last-minute Halloween decorations.
Paint the corks white, then paint some expressions on them. Wait for it to dry and that’s it. You’re done.
DIY Egg Carton Eyeballs
If you eat eggs as often as we do, you’re probably forever tossing egg cartons. Save one to make these DIY Egg Carton Eyeballs.
We attach a pipe cleaner at the top to stick them on the bushes in our front yard. You can display them however and wherever makes the most sense.
DIY Upcycled Tin Can Pumpkins
Next time you make dinner with cans, save them to make these DIY Tin Can Pumpkins.
They’re super easy to make in a couple of minutes and really hold up. We’ve had them on a table on our front porch during a hurricane and they never moved.
Easy Halloween Milk Jug Ghosts Craft
Upcycle a used gallon of milk to make this DIY Milk Jug Ghost. We paint our ghost’s face on, but if you could cut it out of black paper if that’s easier for you.
We fill ours with fairy lights to turn it into a luminary at night. You could cut a hole in the bottom for an LED candle if you have one of those.
Frankenstein Mason Jar Craft
Take a mason jar and stuff it with green paper shred and you’re halfway to making this Frankenstein Mason Jar Craft. The rest of the craft involves cutting white and black construction paper to make Frankenstein’s face, then painting a wine cork for his screws.
As with our other mason jar craft, if you have a similarly-sized glass jar (like from pasta sauce) that you want to upcycle, you can use that instead.
DIY Wooden Pumpkins
We made these DIY Wooden Pumpkins a few years ago and have had them on our front porch every fall since.
They’ve held up really well and didn’t fade from the sun at all.
DIY Garbage Bag Ghosts
Grab some kitchen-sized trash bags to make these DIY Garbage Bag Ghosts.
They’re the perfect outdoor Halloween decorations because they look really cool in the wind and won’t get ruined in the rain. Then, when the holiday is over, you can just use them to throw away all your candy wrappers.
Candy Corn Pine Cones
If you live in an area with pine cones, you’re gonna want to collect some to make these Candy Corn Pine Cones. I made them last year and they were such a big hit.
If you have a bowl that you usually use to display small balls (which is super trendy), you can swap those out and use these pine cones instead. That’s an easy way to add some Halloween spirit to your already existing decor.
More Halloween Crafts:
If you’re looking for the perfect way to upcycle some toilet paper rolls, you’re in luck. We have a huge list of Easy Halloween Toilet Paper Roll Crafts. There are a bunch of creative ideas in that post, showing you how to make a ghost, vampire bat, candy corn, and more. You can either put these out on a table as a decoration or use them as a way to pack candy for trick or treaters.
Which of these Easy DIY Halloween Decorations are you going to make first? Let us know in the comments.