[For Seniors] Fun Halloween wall decorations: from ghosts and pumpkins to spiders and castles
Let us introduce autumn wall decorations that let you enjoy the changing seasons.
Especially around Halloween, you’ll want to create a fun atmosphere in facilities like day services.
Using familiar materials such as origami paper, felt, and construction paper, there are many easy projects like jack-o’-lanterns and bats that even older adults can enjoy making.
Carefully crafting each piece not only provides a good chance to use fine motor skills, but also allows everyone to chat and work together.
How about making some lovely wall decorations together—perfect for creating autumn memories?
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[For Seniors] Fun Halloween wall decorations: from ghosts and pumpkins to spiders and castles (1–10)
Swirling Paper Ghost
The idea of having the ghost’s bottom part as a spiral is really cute.
First, draw a picture of the ghost on white paper.
Think of a snail as your reference—the idea is to draw a snail but make its face a ghost’s face.
Once you’re done, cut away the unnecessary parts around it with scissors, and carefully cut out the spiral section.
Punch a hole in the ghost’s head and hang it with string; the cut spiral will drop downward in a circular shape, making a very striking decoration.
Attach it to a stick and it becomes a portable item too!
Halloween wreath
Here’s a handmade wreath idea that lets you enjoy both the feeling of autumn and Halloween at the same time.
You’ll make four parts: a pumpkin ghost, pinecones, acorns, and flowers.
You can download a materials checklist and a template for the ghost’s face, so please make use of them.
The pumpkin ghost and acorns are made by covering paper balls with colored paper and attaching parts like stems and cupules.
The pinecones and flowers are represented by making cut-paper flowers with heart-shaped petals, then layering and gluing them together.
The key tip is to crumple the paper once to add wrinkles and texture before using it.
Felt Halloween wall hanging decoration
Let’s make a Halloween-themed wall hanging using felt.
For the base, adhere cardboard to reversible crepe paper and attach bamboo skewers at the top and bottom to create a scroll-like look.
Then, finish by gluing on parts made from felt and yarn.
The parts featured in this idea are the moon, bats, a witch, a jack-o’-lantern, Frankenstein, and a ghost.
Any Halloween-style motif will work, so you might enjoy designing your own original version.
[For Seniors] Fun Halloween Wall Decorations: From Ghosts and Pumpkins to Spiders and Castles (11–20)
Origami Halloween paper fan
Using your hands to fold origami and stick round stickers to complete a craft is exciting and fun, isn’t it? The best part of making Halloween paper fans is the accordion folding that forms a circle.
After cutting the origami paper and folding it into an accordion, glue the edges together to make a circle.
Then cut ears or wings from construction paper to transform it into a cat or a bat.
It’s also fun to play with the colors of the accordion-folded section.
Add round stickers for the eyes and mouth, and you’re done! Enjoy making paper fans while experimenting with different expressions.
3D mobile decoration of a pumpkin ghost
When it comes to fall events, Halloween is the first that comes to mind, and pumpkin-themed decorations are the classic choice.
Let’s make an essential Halloween jack-o’-lantern using origami.
Fold the origami paper, cut it into the shape of a jack-o’-lantern while it’s folded, then change the creases of each connected part and glue them together to finish.
It’s easy to understand if you insert a string when gluing so you can hang it, but since it has a three-dimensional finish, it might also be nice to leave off the string and use it as a standing decoration.
Halloween pumpkin wreath
How about a pumpkin wreath for your Halloween decorations? Make a base out of thick paper, wrap it with black yarn, and create a spiderweb on the inside of the wreath.
Then make pumpkins and flowers with TANT paper and stick them onto the base to finish.
Using a craft punch to cut out the flowers makes it easy.
For the pumpkins, create a template shaped like half a pumpkin and use it to cut the necessary pieces from TANT paper.
Glue the pieces together to make a three-dimensional pumpkin.
Some of the steps are a bit detailed, but it will brighten up your wall, so give it a try!
Halloween paper flower fan
Let’s make paper flower fans that are perfect decorations for Halloween parties held at senior day-service centers and other eldercare facilities! Fold origami paper into an accordion, then round the edges with scissors to create a petal shape.
Make two of these, open them up, and you’ll have a flower-shaped paper fan! Try combining them with smaller paper fans or with paper cut into a spiderweb shape.
For a Halloween vibe, we recommend using colors like orange and purple for the paper fans.
