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12 amazing Halloween crafts and DIY decorations

Frightfully good. - by Rebecca Lowrey Boyd
  • 05 Oct 2018
12 amazing Halloween crafts and DIY decorations
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From spooky centrepieces to ghostly pinatas, these Halloween crafts and decorations have you covered for October 31. Make floating witch hats, glue some googly eyes on a pumpkin and transform your fairy lights with black cat cut-outs. No matter what you DIY for Halloween, your decorations will be scarily fun and amazingly spooky.

1. Floating witch hats

You'll be the scariest house on the street with this simple but effective DIY Halloween decoration.

2. DIY Hocus Pocus Quote pumpkins

Halloween crafts don't get any easier with this simple DIY using glitter letter stickers to decorate pumpkins.

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3. Dry ice centrepiece

Create a spooky atmosphere at your Halloween party with dry ice and flashlights. 

4. Drip candlestick holders

Upcycle old wine bottles with this clever DIY and create your own haunted house.

5. DIY spider eggs

Give your guests a fright with these DIY giant spider eggs - all you need is some white pantyhose. 

6. DIY mini ghost pinatas

Perfect for a Halloween party, these pinatas will be popular with guests both young and old. 

7. Drip painted pumpkins

A creative non-carve way to decorate your pumpkins.

8. Black cat string lights

Use a simple template to cut out shapes for a fun spin on your fairy lights.

9. Halloween spooky window silhouettes

Give your windows a Halloween makeover with these clever cat cut-outs.

10. Halloween wreaths

A fast and simple DIY Halloween decoration you can make yourself. 

11. DIY googly eye pumpkins

Another easy non-carve idea for giving pumpkins a fun Halloween look.

12. Spooky front doors

Transform your front door and create a frightening welcome for trick or treaters.

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Rebecca Lowrey Boyd
Rebecca Lowrey Boyd
Rebecca Lowrey Boyd is a former magazine editor and the founder of Wee Birdy, one of The Sunday Times’ Top 50 Blogs in the World. A design nerd and bird enthusiast, she can usually be found poring over Pinterest, knee-deep in Bunnings or sticky-beaking at modernist homes in Sydney’s bushburbia.

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