Six Budget-Friendly Home Upgrades for Halloween
When the budget is tight, looking for as many ways to save money is always a smart move. With Halloween coming up, it can be a little frustrating not having the finances to buy decor and trinkets to fit in with the festivities. For times like this, DIY is the way to go.
Doing decor and Halloween projects by yourself is a surefire way to save money and make opportunities to recycle unused items you have. If you go out of your way to put up new decorations every year, you can make money from your old ones by selling them online. The income you get can be used to purchase materials or whatever you want.
In the meantime, here are some budget-friendly home upgrades you can do without spending too much.
Spooky Halloween Graveyard
This is a perfect project if you have a lot of big and unused shipping boxes. The idea is to flatten and decorate them to look like tombstones. This way, you can recycle the things taking up space in storage and have a banging decor for Halloween too.
You can prop up your DIY tombstones using garden stakes. There are several ways to spice up your graveyard. Add in some accessories like fallen leaves (which you can find everywhere in
autumn), extra pumpkins, cobwebs, LED-light candles, and prop bones. You have complete control over how you want your decor to look like, so have fun!
Cheesecloth Ghosts
Ever seen those creatively crafted ghosts made from cheesecloth or gauze? Surprisingly, they’re easy to make. Additionally, you will need scissors and black duct tape to make the faces of the ghost. If you want to help retain the ghost’s shape, use some PVC or decoupage glue and a brush for application.
Balloons are bad for the environment, so instead of wasting money on them and disposing them later, use items you already have to shape the ghosts. These ghosts can still dangle on trees or on the porch, using a string or propping them up in the yard.
Fall Halloween Wreath
Fall wreaths have become a thing now in the last several years. The cheapest way to make one is to use what nature has already given: fallen twigs, acorns, and pine cones, which are always numerous this time of the year.
You can give your wreath a distinct Halloween flair by adding in faux spiders and cobwebs or small and subtle embellishments like skulls and paper ghosts.
Life-Size Wicked-Witch Legs
Ding-dong, the witch is dead! At least in your yard. Witches are closely associated with frightful things, and that’s why they’re popular Halloween figures. For this DIY, you’ll need a thrifted or old pair of striped socks, an old pair of shoes, chicken wire, and cardboard. If you plan to put the witch legs in the garden, you’ll need yard stakes to keep them upright.
If you want to keep it simple, you can pin the stockings under your welcome mat, Wizard of Oz–style. Just keep the shoes out of the way to prevent family or guests from tripping on it.
Wild, Wild Webs
A quick and cheap decoration would be using some rope to make webs. You can use this idea for both indoors and outdoors. The webs make a great background for solid-coloured walls as the colour contrast will make them stand out even more. Feel free to add spiders and cobwebs if you have them.
Recycled Jar Jack-O’-Lanterns
Have some old bottles lying around and don’t know what to do with them? Upcycle them into fun Halloween decors with some paint or paper and LED-powered tea candles or string lights. The idea is to turn them into jack-o’-lanterns with varying faces using green and orange paint or paper and black construction paper for the faces.
Reinforce your creations with decoupage glue so they’ll last for a few weeks until Halloween. To add to that spooky and festive vibe, line up the bottles on your porch, or use them to decorate your living room or wherever you’ll be receiving guests.
What are budget-friendly Halloween DIY projects that you love? Share them in the comments below.
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