With Halloween just around the corner, we at JUSTJUNK® thought we’d scare up some easy DIY decoration ideas that you can do cheap –
and with items commonly found around the house! Here are six of the best Halloween decorations you can do last minute with the kids!
1. Homemade Bats!
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2. Tin Can Lanterns
Second on our list, if you take old cans
(tin soup cans or larger) you can draw on an expression or image. Then take a
nail and hammer holes following along the lines you made. Paint the can black,
or a Halloween color of your choice, add a candle and you’re done! Cute little
lanterns for your step.
*Adult supervision should be used when using nails or
hammers and with using candles. For a safer option use battery operated
candles!
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3. Cardboard Cut-out Eyes
To add a little bit of spookiness to your
yard you’ll need toilet paper rolls and glow sticks. With the toilet paper
rolls, cut out different eye shapes on each roll.
Tape or glue in a glow stick,
and stick them in your bushes! You’ll have spooky eyes peering out at trick-or-treaters as they approach!
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4. Pumpkin Crayons
A new take on pumpkin carving – don’t carve
the pumpkin at all! What you’ll need is a white pumpkin (most grocery stores
carry them, or farmers markets) and crayons! Pick out about 16 colors – the
brighter the better but it’s up to you! For a more “Halloween” look – use
purples, oranges, greens and blacks.
Unwrap the crayons and then break them in
half and then glue them around the top of the pumpkin. Once the glue has dried,
use a blow dryer to melt the crayons and get a cool effect! It’s a good idea to
either put something down under the pumpkin or make this an outdoor craft!
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5. Dryer Vent Pumpkins
For our last DIY you’ll need old dryer
vents, paint (spray paint seems to work best) and an item to make the stem out
of. Other people have used a cinnamon stick. And of course a glue gun. Pull the
two ends of the dryer vent together to make a circle, then glue gun the ends
together. As always use caution when using hot glue. Once it’s glued and dried,
you can paint your pumpkin and add then stem!
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6. Milk Jug Ghosts, Ghouls and Spectres!
Milk jug ghosts! The name says it all really – find some old milk jugs (or save some) paint on a ghostly face and add a battery operated light (or mini Christmas lights) inside and you have some ghosts to place around your yard!
There you have it! Halloween decorations
that are family friendly with just a touch of spookiness! They can be done in no time and on a budget, so you can not only have fun making them, they'll cost a lot less than some of the more expensive, store bought decorations. The last benefit? They don't need to clutter up your home! When you're done with them, they go out with the rest of the junk and clutter around the house.
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