30 Easy Halloween Decorating Ideas Using Everyday Items

This Halloween, skip the party supply store. Instead, make decorations using things you already have hanging around the house. They’re cheaper, and are a great activity to do with family and friends around the holiday. Here are 30 favorites:

• Cut out the sides and turn a carton into a lantern, as you can see over on Parties for Pennies.
• Little Lovely made a little haunted village by wrapping some in recycled paper and adding windows and doors.
• Makezine made a whole hanging skeleton, using this tutorial from The Party Animal.
• This ghost, from Polly Want a Crafter, lights up a room. Or, attach streamers and hang as a wind sock.
• If you ring in Halloween with a piñata, check out this one from Green Ecoservices.

• Make three of these little pumpkins from Makezine, or string a bunch as garland.
• Mr. Printables has a series of pom pons that are alternately creepy and cute.
• Convert your lampshade into a spooky spider’s web for the month, or just hang as decoration. This project is from Craftsberry Bush.
• This wreath, from Just Flew the Coop, was made out of a bunch of yarn wound around a form, then embellished with felt.
• Craft a bowl to hand out candy, or use as a centerpiece. Prudent Baby has details on how to make one yourself.

• These mini jack o’lanterns from Rebecca’s DIY are easy to make and oh-so-cute.
• Better Homes & Gardens used a clementine as a drink topper.
• More Clementines, this time with fangs, from Aaron Jenkinson.
• Just Putzing found them to be the perfect size for Halloween candy bowls.
• If you are short on time, there’s always a sharpie. Via Under Construction.

• A mummy luminary from a jar, made by Rambling Renovators.
• This cute ghost becomes a terrarium when it’s finished, via Mason Jar Crafts Love.
• Tonya Staab turned a couple of extras into disgustingly great specimen jars.
• Create yummy graveyard treats, like these from Noble Pig.
• These Halloween drips jars from Momtastic are bloody fantastic.

• Mamaguru made these cute little ghosts.
• Try draping some over furniture to give it that Norman Bates kind of feel. Via Country Living.
• It also makes a good stand in for old spiderwebs, as per Martha Stewart.
• Wrap around a body for a quick mummy costume, like this one from Kara’s Party Ideas.
• Or a pumpkin for an easy no-carve idea, as seen on Design Like.

• Stick some in a vase and you have a quick and easy centerpiece. Image from Sparkle Living.
• Little tiny twigs make good terrariums, like these from DIY Network.
• Strung with bats, a single branch becomes a atmospheric mobile. Thanks Martha!
• Do a version of a Christmas tree, just for Halloween instead. Mama Biscuit did.
• Incorporate some organic materials into a wreath, using this one by Warm Hot Chocolate for inspiration.