Baldlet's celebrate Halloweenand then carved pumpkins, bats made from pompoms and spiders made from pipe cleaners decorate the house and garden again. Here you will find a wide selection of ideas and inspiration. This is how you can make a spooky autumn decoration and display it.
Make autumn decorations: organize a Halloween party for the children
Crafting for fall and Halloween is fun for young and old. That's why we have it for youlots of craft ideas put together. Most ideas can be achieved with home remedies and you don't have to spend a lot on decorations and craft supplies. Paint balloons and stones together, decorate with chestnuts and cones, make decorations out of paper and popsicle sticks or animal figures and monsters out of pompoms. We'll show you how to do it!
Fill balloons with sand and paint
They have balloonsand fine craft sand? Then the next idea is just right for you. Fill the balloons with sand and paint them. Draw a scary grimace or ghost face on them or turn the balloons into a cute little monster with six eyes. Display the crafted decoration in the children's room or in the living room. If you use waterproof paints, you can also arrange the Halloween decorations in the garden or in front of the entrance to the house.
Halloween decoration ideas: painting monsters
Sweet monstersPainting with your kids is an easy task that even novice craft enthusiasts will have no problem mastering. Here are some tips that can help you:
- Draw either three eyes or just one
- The teeth are jagged downwards, different sizes or crooked
- Monsters have thick scars, wrinkles, forehead lines
- To make the monsters not seem so scary, you can paint evil eyes and a smiling mouth.
To make the monsters appear sweet and cute, you can choose strong colors. Purple, red, green and blue create a happy atmosphere. Let the children help with the painting. You can draw the outlines of the mouth and eyes and let the children fill them in with paint. Allow the paint to dry completely otherwise it may smudge. You can also use permanent marker, it is best for painting on smooth surfaces.
Make Halloween party decorations with chestnuts
Another craft idea for the whole family:Collect chestnutsand paint them. Using felt, googly eyes, acrylic paints and pipe cleaners, you can quickly transform the chestnuts into pumpkins, cats or spiders. Here are the necessary materials for the pumpkins:
- 1 chestnut
- pink felt for the cheeks
- green felt
- orange acrylic paint
- Paint brush
- Permanent marker, black for the lines and the mouth
- Googly eyes
- green pipe cleaner
Here are the necessary materials for the cat:
- 1 chestnut
- black cardboard for the ears
- Googly eyes
- Paint brush
- black acrylic paint
- White cardboard for the whiskers
- pink felt for the cheeks and nose
- black pipe cleaner for the tail
Here are the necessary materials for the spider:
- 1 chestnut
- 6 pipe cleaners of equal length
- Googly eyes
- black acrylic paint
- 2 circles of pink felt for the cheeks
Make fall decorations: Halloween figures made from popsicle sticks
Numerous decorations can be made from wooden popsicle sticks. Below we will show you some ideas on how you canMake your own Halloween decorationscan. The wooden handles are available in all craft shops and can be painted, stamped, glued or decorated with fabric and cardboard. For each Halloween figure you need three ice cream sticks, which you glue together to form a triangle. Then cut out a large triangle from blue cardboard and several smaller triangles from pink felt, glue 7-8 different sized googly eyes on it and draw a mouth with jagged teeth of different sizes. The monster is ready!
According to legend, the only person who could outwit the devil was the Irish farrier Jack. The story inspired a Halloween custom in North America: every year, on All Saints' Eve, people in the United States and Canada light hollowed-out pumpkins to show Jack the way. Carving a pumpkin is a laborious task. You can also make a Jack O' Lantern out of green felt and orange cardboard. You can paint the scary face with permanent marker.
To make a cute black cat, you need three popsicle sticks, a triangle made of black cardboard, a tail made of black cardboard and two googly eyes. Cut a circle out of red cardboard for the mouth and a small triangle out of pink cardboard for the nose. You can cut out the whiskers from white cardboard.
The Halloween custom comes from the Celts, who dressed up on the eve of All Saints' Day to drive away scary creatures such as witches or ghosts. That's why witch figures traditionally decorate Americans' gardens and windows. You can make a cute witch out of popsicle sticks to display on the windowsill or front door. This is how she will welcome your guests.
The monster inspired by the book “Frankenstein” is easily recognizable by his many scars, his angry face and his hairline.
If you want to save time or don't have a cardboard box at home, you can simply glue several popsicle sticks together and paint them. You can paint popsicle sticks with paints, acrylic paints, colored pencils and even watercolors. Googly eyes also stick well to the wood.
Make Halloween decorations with handprints
Another cute craft idea for families with small children is to make a fun garland with ghosts, monsters, black cats, witches and pumpkins out of cardboard. Simply draw the outline of a handprint on cardboard and then cut it out. Then decorate the handprint as you like and transform it into a witch, a monster, a ghost, a cat or a pumpkin. Perfect forDecorating a free wall!
Craft with a handprint for Halloween: Witch
Crafting with a handprint: painting a ghost
Make autumn decorations: garland for the Halloween party
Craft with handprint: Black Cat
Make Halloween decorations out of pompoms
If you can make pompoms out of yarn, then this is the next craft idea. Use googly eyes, buttons, and pipe cleaners to turn the pom-poms into spiders, monsters, or scarecrows.
Make autumn decorations out of pompoms for the Halloween party
Scarecrow made of pompom with buttons for eyes, pipe cleaners for mouth and a hat made of cardboard
Make a pumpkin out of pompoms and pipe cleaners
Make monsters out of pompoms and pipe cleaners
Craft with the children for Halloween: Spider made of pompoms
Halloween decoration: make bags for candy
You can make a Halloween gift bag in just a few steps. Follow the step-by-step instructions and conjure up a ghost, vampire, pumpkin or monster. Crafting fun is guaranteed!
Make “monster” sugar cones for the Halloween party
Golf balls as eyes, pompoms and mouth made from pipe cleaners, hands and teeth made from clay cardboard
Make Halloween decorations out of pine cones
A beautiful autumn decoration can be made from pine cones. But the cones can also be used as material for creative DIY ideas for Halloween. Wrapped in white fabric, they become mummies or ghosts. Use googly eyes and pipe cleaners to turn the cones into a monster spider.
Cut strips of white fabric or felt and wrap them around the cone
Make a witch out of pine cones
Make autumn decorations: ideas for Halloween parties for the children
Small river stones or pebbles can also be painted as desired. Use acrylic or watercolor paints to paint the stones. You can then use a waterproof felt-tip pen to draw the faces and fine details.
Painting stones: Black Cat
Painting stones for Halloween: Frankenstein
Make Halloween decorations with the children: paint stones
Decoration with stones for Halloween: ghost
Autumn decorations with pumpkins
Pumpkins are traditionally carved for Halloween. But since it is very tedious, you can just paint them
Autumn decoration: Paint the pumpkin white and decorate it with spider motifs
Buy artificial eyelashes, dye them white and decorate the pumpkins with them
Make Halloween decorations for a party with children: Dracula pumpkin
Sweet monster pumpkins
Autumn garland with template
Garlands with Halloween motifs are also a suitable decoration for a spooky party. Download the template and cut out the design from black cardboard. Make the cat's whiskers out of black wire and use the hole punch to make holes for the eyes.
Make a Halloween lantern out of a witch's hat
