Our favourite and simple ideas for Halloween Decorations
A great and simple decoration is the ‘mummy jar’. All you need is a storage jar large enough for a tea light, candle or LED light, one or two rolls of bandage, glue or adhesive tape and some (coloured) paper for the mummy’s eyes. We like to use old pickle jars or yoghurt jars as glass. Bandages can be taken from old first aid kits (the one in the car has to be replaced regularly anyway).
For the mummy jar, wrap the bandage(s) around the jar (not too thick so that the light can still shine through) and fix the whole thing in place at the end with the adhesive material of your choice. Then all you need to do is cut out the eyes from coloured or black paper, optionally paint them and attach them to the glass with a little glue. Half attached under the bandage, it looks as if the eye is peeking out from underneath.
Finally, simply place a tea light, a candle or a more powerful LED light in the jar and watch your mummy light glow dimly in the dark.
Bloody table runner with foot and hand prints
Making a ‘bloody’ table runner as a Halloween decoration is great fun. Especially if you have no problem getting your hands and feet dirty.
We used an old white table runner that already had a stain on it (remind me again – why do I keep buying white things with a child and cats in the house?!) and which I otherwise wouldn’t have used anymore, as well as red acrylic paint that had been lying unused in our craft box for a while. Finger paint or maybe even water colours would work just as well.
It’s best to lay out the table runner on the bathroom floor so that it’s only a step away from the shower or the nearest washbasin. Then start painting your feet (or, in our case, your child’s feet 😁) with the red paint and take a few steps on the table runner. The prints can be incomplete or smeared. This gives the whole thing a really special look. Then repeat these steps with your hands until you are happy with the result.
Now simply leave the table runner to dry for a few hours or longer if necessary and you have a simple but super spooky decorative element for your next Halloween party. All you need now is a few spooky snacks and the fun can begin.
Cobwebs made from wool thread and chestnuts
Cobwebs for that special spooky factor
Although I’ve never been a particularly big fan of spiders in my life and have even been really scared of them at times (yes, I know how useful they are – but I don’t necessarily want to share my home with them), I think this type of decoration is particularly cool.
After I saw an 80g pack of decorative cobwebs at Action this year and bought them for €0.74(!), they were immediately spread all over the house, even though it was only September. The cobwebs made of synthetic fibres can be stretched or pulled apart really nicely without tearing and look really good. They stick to most (rough) surfaces on their own, but for the large spider web in the hallway we also stretched thick woollen threads back and forth between the railings to give the web a little more structure. It felt like we used quite a lot here, but in the end the pack was still half full and I think we can simply reuse the cobwebs next year.
To spice things up a little more visually and brighten up our otherwise rather bare staircase, we also attached a small LED light chain with batteries and a timer to the spider web. I think it looks really good, even if it does take some time to create a really big spider’s web. I think it’s definitely worth it and if you start in good time, you don’t just have to use it as a Halloween decoration, you can leave it up all autumn long.