20 DIY Halloween Decorations

Last Updated on June 30, 2026 by Masha Eretnova

DIY Halloween decorations are a fun way to let kids enjoy the spooky season and help you prep the house for the party. My list has easy Halloween craft ideas that can be used as home decor for the dinner table, doors, windows, and walls.

You’ll find cute ghosts, pumpkins, spiders, lights, and other fun projects that can make Halloween feel more exciting, engaging, and skill developing for kids of all ages and even teens or adults.

Farmhouse Pumpkin Decor

Cozy and rustic pumpkin decor using fake tins and Dollar Tree supplies you can make for your kitchen in no time! Super easy to make and has fun, farmhouse-style crackling texture and nice wood feel to it.

Flying Bats Window Silhouettes 

This window silhouette craft makes a hanging bat decoration that uses natural day light to create spooky glow. And it comes together with just a few simplest materials.

Very fun project for kids of any age that you can reuse for many years!

Halloween Pencil Containers

Recycle empty plastic bottles with this Halloween project that will be great for kids’ desk.

Cut off the bottom of the bottles, as tall as half of a pen/pencil is. Cover them in poster paint or craft paint. You will probably need a few layers and can use a brush or an old sponge!

Then, draw with black and white markers spooky faces! Top with a layer of mod podge and let it dry.

DIY Toilet Paper Roll Ghost Craft for Kids

Kids will have fun turning simple rolls into cute little ghosts and giving each one its own silly face. The fluttery paper tails make this craft feel playful, and that makes it extra fun to watch after it is done. It is a nice Halloween activity for kids who enjoy painting, drawing, and making decorations they can hang up and smile at all season.

How to Make a Spider

I will be honest I am slightly terrified but equally intrigued by this one lol! Kids can have fun making a big spider that looks silly and spooky at the same time. The long legs make it fun to hang on the wall for Halloween. They will enjoy seeing their spider become part of the decorations at home.

Boneyard Lantern

Older kids may enjoy making this creepy lantern and seeing the skull eyes glow in the dark. The spooky look makes it fun to use as Halloween decor for a party table or shelf. After it lights up, they can enjoy showing everyone the eerie glow they helped create.

Laundry Jug Jack-O-Lantern

This glowing jack-o-lantern craft makes Halloween feel extra fun when the lights go off. Kids can enjoy drawing silly faces and seeing each container turn into a pumpkin, ghost, or monster. It is a cute way for them to help decorate a shelf, table, or doorstep.

DIY Halloween Potion Bottles w/FREE Printable Labels

This potion bottle craft lets kids pretend they are setting up a spooky lab or witch table. The free printable labels make the bottles feel extra fun and easy to decorate. They can enjoy choosing where to place each bottle for Halloween party decor.

Easy Rope Ghost (DIY Macrame Ghost)

This rope ghost has a soft, cozy look that makes Halloween feel sweet instead of scary. Kids will have fun giving it a face and seeing it turn into a friendly wall decoration. It is a nice craft for kids who like cute Halloween pieces they can keep hanging in their room.

Pumpkin Magnets Craft: A Simple and Easy DIY for Fall

Small crafts like these pumpkin magnets feel fun for kids who enjoy making tiny decorations. They can give each pumpkin a different face, then move them around on the fridge or any magnetic spot. It feels like a little fall decoration they can keep changing whenever they want.

Mason Jar Mummy Candles for Halloween

At night, these mummy jars turn into soft glowing faces that kids will want to peek at again and again. The googly eyes make each mummy look funny, not too scary. Kids can place them near a window or porch and enjoy seeing their Halloween lights shine.

Easy DIY Tissue Paper Pumpkin Favors Craft

These tissue paper pumpkins are fun for kids to make and even more fun to open. The candy inside makes each one feel like a little Halloween surprise. Kids can enjoy giving them to friends or placing them on the table for fall.

Air Dry Clay Ghost Earrings

This one feels fun for tweens or teens who like making tiny Halloween accessories. They can shape the little ghosts, add simple faces, and wear them during spooky season. It is a cute craft for kids who enjoy making something they can actually use.

Crafting a Girly Baker Ghost

For kids who enjoy pretend play, this baker ghost feels like a sweet Halloween friend. The spatula makes it fun to imagine the ghost helping with spooky snacks. It can sit in the kitchen and make the space feel cute for Halloween.

DIY Ghost Halloween Lights

These ghost pathway lights make Halloween night feel fun before kids even reach the door. They can enjoy seeing the little ghosts glow along the walkway like friendly lights. It is a cute outdoor craft for kids who like decorations they can spot every time they come home.

Bloody Candle

Super easy Halloween craft aka home decor for a dinner setting.

You need:

• wide white candles (as many as you need for table/countertops),
• simple cup plates or candle plates (transparent are best or black) and
• simple red candle stick.

• Light up red candle and let the wax drip over the white candle. Let it drip down and form little pools at the bottom of the candle. Do so until you like the effect – that is literally it!

For teens only or young adults.

Halloween Paper Garland

This paper garland strings together cut paper bats, ghosts, and jack-o-lanterns clipped to jute twine with small wooden clothespins for easy hanging home decoration for Halloween party.

You need orange, black, and white cardstock or construction paper, jute twine, mini wooden clothespins, scissors, and a black marker.

Draw and cut out bat, ghost, and pumpkin shapes, draw faces on each with the marker, then clip them along the twine in a repeating pattern and hang across a mantle, window, or doorway.

Cheesecloth Ghost

This craft makes fun floating ghosts you can use to decorate the house for Summerween or Halloween!

The effect is easier to make than you think! You just need a few baloons, cheesecloth in liquid starch, paint, and googly eyes.

You need cheesecloth, liquid starch, balloons or jars as molds, googly eyes, craft glue, and a tray (container lid) to catch drips.

Mix or pour the liquid starch in a container, add some colors, soak the cheesecloth until saturated, wring it out slightly, drape it over the mold, shape the edges into a flowing hem, let it dry completely (several hours), remove the mold, then glue on the eyes. That’s it!

Kids of any age can help making these ghosts.

Twigs Cobweb

Follow steps on this collage to to make a DIY web from sticks and twigs kids picked up on the last walk and thread.

It can be a great decoration or a setting for spider crafts your kids will make.

Best for older kids as it takes some patience.

DIY Halloween Pumpkin Lantern Garland

Fun DIY garland to decorate the living room for the party.

You need orange craft paper, a black marker, scissors, and jute twine or some sort of string. You will need something to make little hole for the twine, can be an awl or even a thick needle.

Cut as many orange rectangules as you want and as big as you want (WIDTH of the paper rectangle is how big your lantern will be). Then lightly fold the rectangle horizontally in half and make short cuts.

Roll each sheet of orange paper into a cylinder and glue up. Finally, draw the jack-o-lantern faces, secure the seam, make two whole on each side of the top of the lanterns, then thread twine through the top to hang!