Home Halloween Decorating Ideas to Give Your Home a Twist

Whether you want to give trick-or-treaters the chills or your family and friends a fright, these home halloween decorating ideas will transform your space with on-theme accents that will set your house apart. From a haunted front porch to a creepy crypt display, you can add the perfect fright to your indoor and outdoor Halloween decorations.

A few cheap and easy DIY decor ideas, like black paper bats, make it easy for everyone in the family to get involved. This simple craft can be hung from window frames inside your home or strung outdoors across bushes and along the front door for an eerie display.

For another cheap and easy Halloween decoration idea, use a black marker to draw photos or quotes on white paper. This spooky decorative touch saves on the cost of colored ink, helps keep your design on theme and can be reused year after year.

If you’re hosting a Halloween party, you can easily create elegant tablescape decorations using a black and gold color palette. Paint wine bottle candle holders and turn them into cute ghosts with the help of a Sharpie, or try this clever trick from Twinkle Twinkle Little Party. Simply wrap each glass with a piece of black paper, trace around a ghost face with a marker and glue to the top of the bottle.

You can also make inexpensive and spooky Halloween decorations by using fake spider webs to drape around furniture and windows, or by stretching it across your yard or the front door. Adding plastic spiders to the webs can make them even more menacing, and this is one Halloween decorating project that’s also a great way for kids to get creative.

When you’re looking for a scary but easy DIY Halloween decoration idea, consider making a spooky graveyard in your backyard or around your front porch. Most dollar stores carry a large selection of cardboard or polyfoam tombstones that you can arrange to create a spooky scene.

If you have more time and a bit more patience, a larger cemetery can be built using recycled pallets or other wood that you have on hand. For a more subtle and spooky look, you can even use repurposed items to decorate your Halloween decor, such as a stack of old book pages turned into a “graveyard”.

Another easy Halloween decoration idea is turning aluminum cans into adorable ghosts with the kids. Simply paint them white and then trace the faces with a black marker to create these cute wall decorations or tablescape accents. This is a great way to keep kids from throwing out empty cans, and it makes a fun craft that will help the kids feel a part of your family’s Halloween spirit.

To add a spooky and colorful twist to your spooky décor, you can use colored markers to paint on skulls, flowers and other shapes. This spooky but elegant Halloween craft can be used as wall art, table centerpieces or name tags at a party. For a more sophisticated take on this cheap and easy Halloween decor idea, try using black ink and white paper for a monochromatic look that is perfect for gallery walls.