Halloween Decorating

Decorating on a low budget?  Only have a small space to decorate?  There's still so much you can do that looks great and adds a spooky feel to your front porch. 

 

Normally we don't decorate for Halloween, but this year the kids really wanted to.

We decided that there were lots of things laying around that we could use to make our own decorations.  So we made a day out of it.  Not only did we save a bunch of money making them ourselves rather than buying, but we had a ton of fun.

 

We cut headstones out of old cardboard, painted it black, then painted Names and Dates in white.

 

 

 

We also cut bats out of cardboard and painted them black.

 

 

We took old weathered boards and with white paint wrote "DO NOT ENTER" and "BEWARE".

 

 

 

We even made a spooky tree.

 

 

 

What you'll need to make your own spooky tree:

Tree branch (we used a branch left over from summer tree trimming)

Flower Pot (we used an old terricotta, whatever you have laying around will work)

Foam (we used some from an old craft project, spray foam works great too)

Rocks (to weigh down your pot)

Cotton Balls or Spiderweb

 

Just put your foam in your pot.  Stick your branch into the foam.  Place rocks around or on top

of foam to add decoration, and weigh down your pot.  Pull apart cotton balls or spiderweb, and hang on tree.

 

 

Jarett had a skull (since he loves them) so we put that next to the tree & gravestones.

 

 

Here's the porch as a whole.  We might add more but I think this is pretty darn good for one day.

Especially since we made most everything ourselves.