Spooky season – Easy at home Halloween decoration ideas

October has arrived and with it comes leaf-filled parks and cosier nights, as spooky season rears its head once more. We’ve decided to share our list of creative ideas to furnish your home with the spookiest of spangles to seriously scare your guests.

1. Pumpkin slime buckets – Trick people a treat with this deceptive tease. All you need to create luminous green slime is bicarbonate of soda, food colouring, white liquid glue and a dash of contact lens cleaning solution. Scoop out the contents of a small pumpkin, paint on a ‘treats’ sign, and watch your guests squirm as they plunge their hands into a gooey mess. Just tie to staircases with some rope or firm string.

   Tutorial: https://hejpix.com/en/blog/easy-pumpkin-carving-tutorial-for-halloween

2. Hanging spiders – Get the family involved in this simple spider craft. Chop an oval from some black felt, and attach some devious dark eyes on with white paper. Attach eight even-length pipe cleaners on for legs and loop some with thin string around any high, hanging area to make your home seriously spooky. For maximum frightfulness try some stuck on green or bright red eyeballs. You could even use luminous paint for that extra devilish detail.
3. Eyeballs in a jar – Ping-pong balls are an easy DIY ornament for Halloween decorations, none more so than for painting them as eerie eyeballs to put into a pickle-style jar. Fill a medium-height glass bottle with warm water, mix with a splash of green paint and throw in your spookily-splashed eyeballs for optimum scariness. Dry your ping-pong balls with designs set in before plunging them into your mixture.

   Tutorial: http://blog.craftygoat.com/2008/10/tutorial_eyeballs_in_a_jar.html

4. Poisonous potion – Another example of taking a household item and spooking it out – all you need is a small empty bottle, dark black paint and a dash of white or yellow. Make the bottle dark with a couple of coats, leave to dry and embellish with your pick of scary surprises. Use the yellow to add hazardous or corrosive symbols, and the leftover white to paint your own skull and crossbones.
5. Mummy on a door – Get really creative with this fun yet simple Halloween hack. A few rolls of toilet tissue, some tape and cut out paper is all you need to turn an everyday door into a terrifying tomb trick. Criss-cross the white paper from top to bottom, leaving a small gap for some eyes to go onto a black background. Cut them out and stick them on, with pupils over the top. Suddenly your home becomes seriously sinister!

   Tutorial: https://alwaystheholidays.com/mummy-door-decorations/