Handmade Halloween Decorations! A Collection of DIY Decoration Ideas Using Everyday Materials
When Halloween season rolls around, many of us want to decorate our homes with a slightly spooky yet cute vibe! In times like that, how about using handmade Halloween decorations? Handmade pieces have a special charm you just can’t get from store-bought items.
If you make them with family or friends, the excitement for Halloween will double! And if they’re easy to craft with materials you already have at home, you can start the very day inspiration strikes.
In this article, we’ll introduce ideas for Halloween decorations that will beautifully brighten up your room.
Why not create special memories with warm, handcrafted decor?
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Handmade Halloween Decorations! A Collection of DIY Decor Ideas Using Everyday Materials (11–20)
Felt garland
If you make a garland—strings of various ornaments connected with twine or the like—in a Halloween theme, it will liven up your party.
Using felt makes it easy to choose colors and designs, so it’s perfect even for those who aren’t very confident with crafts.
You can get the materials and tools at 100-yen shops, so it’s nice that you can make lots of them relatively inexpensively.
The warm texture of felt enhances the Halloween atmosphere—highly recommended as a decoration.
Jack-o’-lantern
When you think of a Halloween face, it has to be the jack-o’-lantern.
If you hollow out the inside of an orange pumpkin—different from the pumpkins commonly known in Japan—and light a candle, your room will instantly turn into a Halloween mood.
Using a special saw allows for various cuts and designs, so even beginners at crafts should find it easy to make.
It’s an object that’s sure to get everyone excited right from the prep stage—scooping out the insides with a spoon together with your kids, and more.
Halloween decorations made of felt and paper cores
Halloween decorations made with paper roll cores and felt.
A pumpkin wearing a witch’s hat, a black cat, a skeleton, a bat—classic characters you can’t do without for Halloween.
The toilet paper cores are upcycled materials, and you can probably use leftover felt you already have at home, right? Even if you don’t, you can buy some at a dollar store, so it’s easy to make.
Just cut the felt into shapes and attach it to the paper cores with a hot glue gun.
It’s a bit fiddly, but you’ll end up with cute decorations you wouldn’t believe were made from paper rolls—and you can use them again next year.
lampshade
A cute pumpkin lampshade may look difficult to make, but it’s actually very easy.
All you need is a balloon, tissue paper, white craft glue, and a few other basics.
Inflate the balloon and secure it to a base, then start applying tissue paper that’s been coated with craft glue diluted with water.
Use orange tissue paper for the pumpkin color.
Keep layering the tissue paper until the color of the balloon underneath no longer shows through.
Add eyes and a mouth made from origami paper and let it dry thoroughly.
Once it’s dry, pop the balloon inside and remove it, clean up the opening, and insert an LED light—that’s it! The pumpkin lantern glowing in a dark room creates a great atmosphere.
Paper pom-pom ornament
Ornaments made with paper pom-poms are perfect for colorful Halloween decorations.
Simply make paper pom-poms in colors that match the character you want to create—like pumpkins or monsters—and attach the parts to finish.
It’s easy for both children and seniors to make.
However, if you want to get very detailed, some fine work will be needed, so adults should handle that part.
The unique, airy texture of paper pom-poms adds color to your room, making them a cute decoration no matter how many you have.