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24 Spooky Ideas For Decorating Your Home This Halloween

Although many people love decorating for Christmas, others go all out decking the house for Halloween. These tips will help you make your house extra fun and spooky this year.

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Turn Your Garage Into a Haunted House

If you have kids, are having a party, or want to give trick-or-treaters a little extra scare, create a haunted house in your garage.

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Spooky Yard Scene

Sit down with your family and plan a spooky scene for your yard or home. This is a fun way to spend time together and celebrate, and all ages can participate. You can conjure up a haunted forest or cemetery to scare trick-or-treaters. This is what trick-or-treating will look like this year.

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Deck Out Your Landscaping

Use bushes to your advantage. Add eyes or zombie hands. Rake your leaves and fill trash bags that you can decorate.

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Skip the Carving and Paint Pumpkins for Your Patch

Not everyone likes carving pumpkins. If you're in that category, paint your pumpkins with funny faces. Or if you want more of a polished look, give this zigzag pumpkin tutorial a try.

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Make Those Pumpkins Last

Pumpkins are an "all fall" decoration. If you want to make your uncarved, unpainted pumpkins and gourds last longer, some suggest a bleach bath.

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Decorate with Dollar Store Finds

Take your kids to your local dollar store and stock up on fun things like window clings, candle holders, etc. to decorate your house. This is also a fun way to decorate your office or work space!

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Get Spooky with Spider Webs

Spider web decor is inexpensive and fun. Drape your bushes and front door with webs and incorporate them into your home decor. Get plastic spider rings that easily attach to complete the look.

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Get Ghoulish

A favorite cute and easy decoration idea for parties or trick-or-treaters is to have ghosts floating about. You can get helium balloons and cover them with white cloth or snatch up one like this!

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Decorate Balloons

Stock up on orange, white, and black balloons and some Sharpie markers. Decorate the balloons with scary faces for a fun and fast decoration idea!

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Be Festive with Flowers

Okay, so this is scary, but flowers always give your home a welcoming vibe. You can even use a pumpkin or plastic skull for a vase.

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Create a Coffin

Nothing spooks party goers or trick-or-treaters like a coffin. You can build one yourself out of wood or heavy cardboard, or you can even buy a kit! Just be sure to make it big enough to hide in so you can pop out and scare people.

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Let Your Pets Play a Part

Consider dressing up your pet to compliment your Halloween decor. Make sure to consider their safety when choosing a costume. Remember, if they don't like it, don't make them wear it!

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Scary Piñatas

Paper mache goblins, monsters and mummies make classic Halloween piñatas. No time for DIY? You can buy one if you prefer!

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Aliens Are Scary too!

Why should typical Halloween monsters have all the fun? Have a UFO theme this Halloween! You can even create an alien landing pad in your yard!

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Make Use of What You Have

You can repurpose old wood pallets to make a scary graveyard or empty cans to make lanterns. Check out your scrap bins for miscellaneous materials that would make cool decor this Halloween.

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Give It Some Glitter

This is the perfect holiday to add some glitter to your decor. Buy a plain skull and use spray glue and glitter to make it glitzy!

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Stage Skeletons

This time of year you can find skeletons at every store selling decor. Stage them around your house, chatting on the phone, sitting at the table or even hanging out on the front porch. Interested in eerie stories?

Originally Published: July 14, 2021

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