Decorations
Use tin cans to create lanterns to light a path to your front doorway if your party will be at night.
- Paint clean tin cans with a color and sponge a holiday decoration on the cans after they have dried.
- Fill your cans with water and freeze. Use a small hammer and nails to make a pattern or design on the cans. (The frozen water keeps the can intact during this step.)
- Set a tea light inside and a Halloween glow is cast.
Spooky Spiders! Using paint brushes, paint two coats of black paint onto styrofoam balls. After the balls have dried, place black pipe cleaners into different areas of the styrofoam ball. You can cut them short or leave them long. Use construction paper and/or googly eyes to create spider faces. Hang these from your ceiling or nestle them into a golden cauldron.
Craft Tip: Mix regular white glue into the acrylic, washable paint so that it adheres well to the styrofoam.
Place Golden Cauldrons and Pumpkins around your party area and atop your party table. Take regular black plastic cauldrons and pumpkins and paint these with golden acrylic paint. Let them dry and fill with black and orange confetti and festive Halloween goodies.
Use black and orange construction paper to create ghosts, pumpkins, bats, spiders, and other spooky creatures to hang from the ceiling, place on the walls, and anywhere else in the party area.
- Make half ghosts that peek out around corners.
- For paper pumpkins, use orange paper for the body, brown for the stem, green for the leaves, and black for the cutouts to make the face.
- If you are using black construction paper for the bats and black cats, use chalk rather than gel pens.
- If you want to make the bats and ghosts fly, punch a small hole at the top of the creations, thread a fishing line through the hole, and hang over vents or near a door that is opening and closing frequently so that they fly.
Blow up balloons, place material, such as a small white sheet, over the balloon, tie the neck with a string, and use a black marker for a ghostly face. Suspend the ghosts using fishing line from the neck of the ghost. Make sure to use lots of orange and black balloons to create a festive Halloween environment.
Cardboard Boxes: Make a graveyard out of your front yard by using old cardboard appliance boxes. Cut them down to tombstone size, spray paint them black, and then use white paint to outline the headstone. Using a small paint brush, paint different, spooky, funny, and anything goes epithets on the tombs. Place them in the front yard, weighing them down with a brick.
Spider Web: A spider web will go a long way in decorating any corner area of your home and/or front porch. They often come with some plastic spiders as well for further decorations.
Candles: Orange and black candles illuminating your home would also be an additional decoration. The small votive candles can often be purchased in bulk as well.
Use orange and black colors for your party table. Mix and match the colors for your cups, napkins, plates, and tableware. Place some Golden Cauldrons and Pumpkins in the center of your table filled with black, orange, and lime green confetti and large black and orange swirled lollipops for a party treat. Scatter gummy worms, insects, and spiders around the table for confetti!
A small bale of hay with some Indian corn would also add a festive autumnal touch to your party table as a centerpiece.
