Halloween is an exciting time of year for kids. Decorating your home can help get them into the spooky spirit. Follow these fun and easy tips to transform your house into a haunted mansion that will delight little ones.
Make Creepy Crafts
Get creative with homemade decorations. Let your kids help make ghosts, spiders, monsters, and more. Spend some of your fostering allowance from orangegrovefostercare.co.uk on craft supplies if you are decorating your home with the help of foster children.
- Ghost mobiles: Cut ghost shapes out of white tissue paper or paper towels. Let kids decorate them with markers, then string them up around the house.
- Spiderwebs: Help little ones stretch cotton balls apart into web shapes. Drape them over furniture, doorways, and more.
- Handprint monsters: Have kids trace their own hands and decorate them into silly monsters. Display them on walls or windows.
- Craft stick bats: Glue black craft sticks together into bat shapes. Kids can add eyes and wings with markers. Hang them from ceilings with a fishing line.
Simple Decorating Ideas
Use what you already have at home to make it spookier. Raid your recycling bin for containers, newspapers, and cardboard that can morph into decorations.
- Stuff plastic bags with newspaper to make “ghosts” and hang them around.
- Paint or carve real or fake pumpkins. Let kids help with safe decorating.
- Drape cobwebs made from cotton balls or string over doorways and furniture.
- Make a mummy by wrapping toilet paper around cardboard tubes or cans.
- Use flashlights or lanterns to create creepy shadows on walls.
- Cut shapes like bats, cats, or ghosts out of black paper and tape them to windows.
Spooky Outdoor Decorations
Don’t forget the outside of your home! Use these quick outdoor decorating ideas to give your house some curb appeal.
- Carve fun patterns into pumpkins and line your walkway with them.
- Hang fake bats or spiders from trees, railings, or the front door.
- Place skeletons or zombies from old Halloween costumes in your garden.
- Stick plastic glow-in-the-dark bones or skulls from a party store into flower beds.
- Drape cotton spiderwebs over bushes.
- Set up lights that glow orange or purple to set a spooky mood.
Themed Room Ideas
Pick a scary theme for each room kids use a lot. Focus decorations on the theme.
- Witch’s lair (kitchen): Hang plastic witch hats from the ceiling. Put stuffed black cats by cauldrons.
- Mad scientist’s lab (playroom): Use toy microscopes and beakers. Make science decor like paper DNA balls.
- Haunted dining room: Drape spiderwebs over the table. Scatter plastic bugs and bones on top.
- Vampire’s crypt (bedroom): Use black and red. Hang false bats. Make cardboard coffins.
Have a frightfully good time decorating for Halloween! With a little creativity, you can transform your home into a delightfully spooky haunt. Your kids will love helping make homemade crafts and decorations to celebrate this spooky holiday. Choose easy yet fun ideas like ghost mobiles, handprint monsters, glow-in-the-dark bones, and themed rooms. Make it a family affair and build memories while prepping your home for Halloween thrills and chills.
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