Try these fun, frugal Halloween decorating ideas

Try these fun, frugal Halloween decorating ideas


On Halloween night, how will kids in your neighborhood know you are one of the houses ready to hand out treats? Leaving the front porch light on is always a good indicator, but how about creating a spooktacular front yard and porch with these DIY Halloween decorations.

Your first step is deciding on a Halloween theme. Will you be the scary house kids are excited, but a little nervous to visit? Or will you be the bright and cute house perfect for kids of all ages? As usual, no matter what theme you choose, one of my favorite places to look first for decorations is the dollar store. There are so many scary spider webs, spiders, skeletons, even ghoulish door knockers to get you started. You’ll also find many sparkly and adorable signs, flags, and pumpkins.

I like to do a mix of cute and a little scary. In my front yard we have our DIY Halloween graveyard, complete with a fence and gates, tombstones, and a few ghouls. You can find all the details of how we did it (it’s easy and cheap!) at SavingByDesign.com/graveyard. We’ll also be adding a wheel barrel of bones to the graveyard this year. Just as it sounds, you fill your wheel barrel with dirt, add some plastic bones and shovel, and ta-da! You’ll have a super simple, inexpensive, and spooky front yard or porch decoration.

Our porch is full of mums, pumpkins, and cornstalks, along with a giant spider and web hanging over the door. If your porch is under cover, you can enlist the kids to help you make a huge spider using just two black balloons and black streamers. Blow up your balloons so one is a little smaller than the other for the head. Attach the balloons together and then add eight pieces of streamers to the larger balloon for the legs. A corner usually works best for this guy since you’ll need to tape the bottom of the legs to the wall so they aren’t just hanging.

Get creative and think about what you already have at home that can be used for your décor. Do you have the mini light up Christmas trees that are usually used outside on the sides of your front door? Halloween them up by adding a witch hat, material for a cape, broom, and anything else you would like to create your tiny witches. I can’t wait to try these this year!

Need to light up the path to your front porch? Here’s another super fun craft to try with the kiddos. Grab a few mason jars and orange streamers. Spread some glue on the outside of the jar (I like Mod Podge) and attach strips of streamer from the neck of the jar down to the bottom. Continue adding your strips all the way around the jar until it’s covered. Then using black cardstock, or even construction paper, cut out your favorite Jack O’ Lantern face and glue that on too. Add a candle inside and you have the perfect Halloween luminary! You can also create some mummy luminaries by wrapping gauze or cheese cloth around the outside of the jar and completing with some googly eyes found in craft stores.

Happy haunting!
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