Spooky Halloween Decorations To Make

If the price of store bought Halloween decorations for your home, school classroom or office is just too scary, or if you're spooked out by seeing the same indoor plastic pumpkin or witch in every home or classroom, how about trying these handmade Halloween decorations? The neighbors won't stand a ghost of a chance competing with your original handiwork.

On this page, you'll find an array of information about spooky Halloween decorations. I have featured two Halloween projects -- a Halloween House, a Halloween cup and saucer, and a craft project that can serve as a decoration or a greeting card.

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This little Halloween House, as shown in the picture above, is a hand made creation that I cut from a cardboard box and decorated.

The supplies you will need are two or three patterns of scrapbook paper, scraps of cardstock and other paper, Halloween themed stickers (3-D are best), black ribbon, a glaze pen, three dimensional glue (yellow),and of course, adhesive and a cutting instrument.

My Halloween House is the third "house" I have made using the same pattern. The video below shows the Halloween House from all four angles. For more detailed instructions, please refer to an earlier video I made showing a St. Patrick's Day House or check my Scrapping by Design Blog for written instructions.

Use it as an ornament or mail it as a card

This Halloween craft project can do double duty as something you display in your home or classroom or as a card you send. It's easy enough to make that it would be a suitable project for older children.

The video below demonstrates how to make this ornament. You will need:

• black card stock (12" by 6"
• four patterns of Halloween-themed scrapbook paper, OR two doubled sided papers
• black ribbon (or color of your choice)
• Miscellaneous items for embellishments.

I embellished with orange buttons and stamped, heat embossed images. You could use other items as well -- such as stickers, die cuts, flowers, punched shapes, etc.

You will also need glues or adhesives and a cutting tool such as a Fiscar's Paper Trimmer.

See the video demo below showing how to make this decoration.

Such A Cute Halloween Decoration

This teacup, saucer and teabag with its Halloween theme is cute and fun to make.

I used a template found on the web. Unfortunately, that template is no longer available. You might try another pattern for a similar result. Refer to the link at the right side.

I did not make paper mache personally. Instead, I cut the template out of a pizza box, then assembled. Once assembled, I omitted the paper mache step and simply covered the cup with scrapbook paper and black shelf liner. It worked just as well.

I made the saucer by cutting a circle and bending it upwards to make a slight upwards tilting saucer.

I made the flowers from a beer can using the Big Shot and a floral die by Tim Holtz. The small pedestal on the bottom of the cup is also a small beer can flower bent into the shape you see.

For the teabag, I covered a packet of herbal tea with scrapbook paper and added computer generated text to read bat blood tea

I like Chef Gordon Ramsay, but I couldn't resist spoofing him in this Hell's Kitchen TP Album that I made. I made this using five toilet paper rolls that I had flattened and painted black. I flattened the rolls using a pasta machine that is dedicated to crafting. I then placed a heavy object over the five flattened rolls and let them sit overnight.

The mini album is decorated with scrapbook paper, Halloween Creepy Cloth, beer can flowers, plastic spiders,stickers, quilling, a decorated bottle cap and a number of pictures that have been Photoshopped.