DIY Halloween garlands. DIY Halloween Decorations

Below we will present several options on how to quickly and easily make scary decorations for the wonderful holiday of Halloween, also with your own hands, from the most ordinary paper and other improvised materials that are likely to be found in every home.

How to make DIY Halloween decorations from paper

Halloween (or All Hallows' Eve)- an ancient holiday that has survived to this day from the pre-Christian era. Traditionally celebrated on the night from October 31 to November 1 in English-speaking countries. The history of the holiday is as follows: among the ancient Celts, October 31 was considered the last day of summer, marking the end of the harvest work and the transition to winter, which began on November 1. The celebration of this transition took place at night, when, according to legend, the door of the world of the dead opened and spirits entered the world of people. To protect themselves from dark forces, the Celts dressed in animal skins, left treats for spirits at the doors of their houses, and gathered around the fires where the Druids performed rituals. These traditions have survived to this day, somewhat modified.

Now Halloween night is one of the most popular holidays among children and youth, a time for fun dress-up parties, when you can try on a carnival costume and have a lot of fun and fool around with friends.

Halloween symbols.

The well-known symbols of the Halloween holiday are black cats, bats, spiders and everything that is in one way or another connected with the night, black magic and evil spirits, and the scarier the better! After all, all these creepy attributes are made in order to deceive the dark forces. The most popular symbol is, of course, a jack-o'-lantern called Jack's Head. The lamp was named after the cunning Irishman, who during his lifetime managed to deceive the devil himself several times, and therefore, when he died, he was not allowed into hell, and because of his numerous sins, he was not taken to heaven either. Jack had to wander in the darkness between worlds, lighting his way with a light placed in a hollowed-out turnip. And such lamps began to be carved from pumpkins in the United States of America, where the harvest of this vegetable is harvested at the end of October.

If you decide to throw a party for Halloween, then you are probably thinking about how to decorate the room in accordance with the traditions of the holiday.

We make our own lamps from glass jars

To make such lamps, glass jars of any shape and size, acrylic paints or special paints for painting on glass, PVA glue, brushes and black colored paper are suitable.

A well-cleaned jar should be coated with paint and an applique of pictures cut out from paper templates should be glued on top.

You can cut out figures from plain paper, and then tint them with black paint.

Such lamps with a tea candle placed inside will create an atmosphere of mystery that matches the spirit of the holiday.

And here is another version of the lamp, reminiscent of a mummy's head, for the manufacture of which you will need an empty glass jar and a roll of toilet paper:

Everything here is very simple - you need to wrap the jar in several layers of paper, secure it with glue or tape, and draw eyes with a felt-tip pen. You can insert a tea light into the jar, but it is better to use special small diode lamps for safety reasons.

Trying to attach terrifying silhouettes to windows

Another very simple, budget-friendly and effective way to decorate for Halloween is silhouettes on the windows. Here you can use your imagination, cut out any creepy picture you like from paper and stick it on the window glass. When it gets dark and the lights turn on in the room, eerie shadows will appear on the windows:

We make bright paper pumpkins for the windowsill

These bright and original pumpkins can be made from orange paper!

From 4 sheets of A4 folded like an accordion you get one pumpkin:

All that remains is to glue on Jack’s creepy smile and eyes, a green stalk, and the elegant decoration is ready.

We release a large flock of paper bats

This is simply wonderful in its simplicity and original decoration of the hall for a Halloween party. Simply cut out silhouettes of bats of different sizes from black paper, bend them in half and attach them to the walls, ceiling and windows using double-sided tape or stationery gum. Below are stencils that you can use.

You can make such a garland from baking paper - it is thin and easy to cut. You need to cut a strip of paper of the required size from the roll, fold it like an accordion so that the silhouette of a little ghost fits on each part. Then transfer the silhouette onto paper and cut along the contour. The garland is ready! You can draw the silhouette of a ghost using this template.

Here are a few more options for garlands for decorating rooms, which can be easily made from paper:

Simply cut out the figures you like from paper in traditional Halloween colors, thread a thread through them and hang them under the stream and on the windows.

If you have not yet decided on the decor option for your home for a Halloween party, look at the examples in the photo on how to decorate a room.

As well as a selection of videos that tell you what other decor options you can use to make the party in your home bright and unforgettable.

A selection of videos on the topic of the article

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One of the most common decorations for Halloween is a garland of all kinds of figures made from paper with your own hands. The Halloween garland will consist of six figures - a spider, a pumpkin, a skull, a bat, a ghost and a witch.

• Double-sided half-cardboard in red, yellow and black
• Black waxed cord
• Scissors
• Pencil

Step-by-step photo lesson:

To create the figures, we take three colors of paper. One color will be for two figures. So, on red paper we draw the silhouettes of a pumpkin and a skull, on yellow paper - a ghost and a spider, on black paper - a bat and a witch in the form of a cap.

We cut out the required number of each figure along the contour.

Some figures have small and very important elements in the middle. So we take a utility knife or small scissors. Carefully cut out eyes and a nose in the skull, eyes and a mouth in the pumpkin, and small eyes in the bat.

Now let's measure the length of the black cord. Let's calculate both the size of each figure and the size of the gap between them.

First of all, we will glue a witch in the form of a black cap to the garland. Apply glue to the back of the figure and attach the cord.

Then we glue on the red skull.

Next will be a yellow spider, which has eight thin legs. Because of this, it must be carefully glued so as not to damage one of them.

Then, after the yellow spider, we add to our paper garland a black bat, a red pumpkin figurine and a yellow ghost.

All the figures are already glued, so we can firmly say that the Halloween garland of six figures is ready.

For Halloween, you always want to decorate your home and everything in it in a special way. After all, such a holiday happens only once a year.

In this article, we want to offer you a very creative option for creating a festive Halloween garland to decorate your home interior from ordinary knitting threads. Decorate your home with bright voluminous pumpkins and such mysterious ghosts.

To make a Halloween garland with your own hands, you will need the following materials: white and bright orange knitting threads, green chenille wire, small foam balls (can be replaced with paper lumps), black acrylic paint (can be replaced with a black marker or even black varnish for nails).

DIY pumpkin

DIY pumpkin made from threads

To make voluminous pumpkins from threads you need to make large orange pompoms. Then use scissors to trim the pompom so that it is neat.

Then twist the chenille wire into a spiral and attach it to the pompom using hot glue.

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DIY thread ghost

To create a cast from threads, you need to make a large brush. In the upper part of which it is important to place a foam ball or crumpled paper in order to obtain volume and an adduction head, respectively.

At the top of the brush, draw the eyes and mouth of the ghost.

Now the finished elements of the festive garland need to be secured on a strong decorative rope.

You can hang a homemade Halloween garland on a wall, window, front door, or use it as an addition to a carnival costume.

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Despite the fact that this holiday is not official in Russia and the CIS countries, people still like to celebrate it, because it is not only unusual, but also quite colorful and original.

Many people throw parties on Halloween. They can take place both in clubs, cafes and restaurants, and at home.

To beautifully decorate the room and prepare original Halloween crafts,We provide several interesting ideas, many of which you will definitely like.

DIY Halloween: Little Ghosts

You will need:

Styrofoam balls (found at an office supply store)

White cloth or gauze

Black pins

Thick thread.

1. Wrap each foam ball in fabric and tie a thick thread at the neck to secure the fabric.

2. Insert black pins to become eyes.

3. To hang the ghost, you can make a small loop of thread on the top of the head.

DIY Halloween Crafts: Spider Garland

You will need:

Thin brushes

Strong thread

Needle and thread or tape.

1. Prepare 4 pipe cleaners, gather them into a bunch and bend them in half.

2. Take the top of the head where the pipe cleaners fold, bend it slightly and twist the pipe cleaners to form the body of the spider.

3. Start straightening the spider's legs.

4. Using a thread and a needle or tape, attach the spider to the thread.

5. Make a few more spiders to create a larger garland.

DIY Halloween decor

For this project, you can use your imagination and use any objects (things, toys) to create an original Halloween corner.

In this case, a witch's locker was created. A large wooden box was used for this, but instead you can use a cardboard box to which you can attach several shelves and decorate with paints (gouache) and/or black duct tape (or duct tape).

As decorations you can add:

Toy skulls

Bats cut from black paper

Artificial web (buy in cans or make your own from threads)

Antique books and unwanted keys

Jars and cones, painted with gouache in the desired colors.

DIY Halloween at home: bloody candles

You will need:

Food parchment (baking paper)

White thick and thin candles

1 red candle

Pins and nails

1. To begin, cover your work surface with parchment paper and remove all stickers (if any) from the candles.

2. Light the red candle and get ready to drip red paraffin onto the thick white candle. You can insert pins and nails into the white candle in advance. Be careful, remember - paraffin is hot.

3. The same can be done with thin candles and then insert them into the candlestick.

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How to make a big Halloween ghost with your own hands

You will need:

Transparent garbage bags

Transparent wide and thin tape

Mannequin or volunteer

* you can use part of a mannequin (without the head) or something that has the shape of a torso, as well as a ball for the head.

Fishing line (for hanging).

1. Torso

1.1. Place a large clear bag over the mannequin. If you have a volunteer as a mannequin, make holes in the bag for the head and arms and then put it on it.

1.2. Start wrapping thick tape around the bag. Pay special attention to the most intricate parts of the torso. Wrap around your waist, neck and shoulders. Add some tape to connect all the already wrapped parts - a couple of pieces from the neck to the shoulders and a couple from the waist to the neck.

* For more difficult places, you can use thin tape.

In the picture you can see strips of blue tape - this is so that you can better understand what to do next.

1.3. Continue wrapping the tape, varying from horizontal to vertical strips. The main thing is that the entire torso is covered.

1.4. To make the shape stronger, add another layer of tape. You can add a couple more layers if desired, but the more tape, the less transparent the ghost will be.

1.5. Using scissors (preferably with rounded ends), cut the shape from the back from the neck to the waist in a straight line. The dark tape in the picture shows exactly where this needs to be done.

1.6. Carefully remove the form from the mannequin and set it aside.

7. Nowhead.

If you don't have a head model, you can use a regular ball of the appropriate size.

*Under no circumstances use a real person for this.

7.1. Place a transparent bag over the mold.

7.2. Wrap thin tape around the neck to secure the bag at the bottom. And to secure the bag on top, wrap tape around it in the forehead area. If you are using balls, simply place some tape on the bottom and then start wrapping it around the entire ball.

Halloween is that special holiday that allows you to let your imagination run wild and decorate your home with stylized “horrible” but cute decorations. For Ghosts, cobwebs, bats, black cats and pumpkins, skeletons and mummies are the most popular characters in decorating houses and apartments on October 31st. Monsters from popular films and cartoons also often decorate walls and windows on Halloween.
The color scheme of the jewelry involves the use of black, orange, white and purple.

Should your child celebrate Halloween?

By the way, this holiday is a great way to overcome some childhood fears: darkness, ghosts, monsters under beds. By making Halloween decorations with his mother, drawing a funny mummy's face, or cutting out a garland of ghosts, the child gets rid of the fear of frightening characters, they become more understandable and simpler for him, less mysterious and creepy. Dark corners and monsters in the closet cease to be a terrible secret when everyone talks about them, they are decorated, they become holiday heroes. And sweets and treats further help add a pleasant atmosphere to this masquerade. Crafts for children that they make with their own hands are an effective means of solving some psychological problems. So, even if you're not a Halloween fan, don't miss the opportunity to make some simple decorations with your child.

We offer a selection of decoration ideas that are easy enough to make with your children to decorate a classroom or room in the house.

DIY paper decoration ideas

The simplest, but very effective decorations are made from paper. By analogy with New Year's snowflakes, you get an excellent web.
You can cut out the silhouette of any holiday character from colored paper and attach it to a wall, window glass, curtains, hang it from a chandelier or in a doorway. You can cut out the same silhouette from plain white paper and color it as you wish.

Paper spider

Silhouettes of black cats made of paper

A white paper plate, paper pens, and strips of a regular napkin - and you have a cute and scary ghost.

Using a sheet of white paper cut or torn into strips, glue a mummy like this onto any dark surface. For the eyes you will need two circles of orange paper.

Paper pumpkin is a versatile decoration. It can be placed on a table, on a windowsill, or hung from a garland.

Below you will find templates for cutting out paper crafts.

Halloween Paper Garland Ideas and Templates

Garlands are a universal decoration. They can be cut out of paper, garbage bags, or you can use the idea of ​​hanging gloves. filled with candies.

DIY Halloween decorations

Balloon ghosts look great. You don't even need balloons inflated with helium; just hang a regular balloon upside down with gauze or a transparent light cloth over it. And if you also draw a scary face or even just eyes on the fabric, then you are guaranteed a spectacular Halloween decor.

How to make DIY jewelry for yourself

Masks in the shape of a bat or glasses with cobwebs are the simplest decoration a child can make for himself. Mustaches, sponges, a mask in the shape of a pumpkin - these templates can be attached to a stick.

How to make decoration for dolls

Of course, dolls also need Halloween decorations! What you can do with your own hands and quickly:

• Plasticine pumpkin bag,
• spider necklace drawn with a 3d pen,
• small paper witch hat,
• cardboard mask,
• a cape made of gauze or bandage, symbolizing a mummy.

How to make a web

The web can be made from wire or drawn with a 3D pen.

Video: how to draw a spider and web with a 3D pen

An excellent web is made from gauze. You need to stretch it well to create natural tears and sagging. You can decorate with spiders or bats.

Or we cut out the web like.

Video: how to make a web from a garbage bag

How to make a web out of paper

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Templates

These are the ghost garlands made from paper. Template below.

Print the template, cut along the outline and fold along the dotted lines. The voluminous festive pumpkin Jack is ready!

Easy cut out silhouettes for kids. The child can color them at his own discretion.

Decorating the room for Halloween

Here we have collected ideas in photos on how to decorate a classroom, assembly hall, house or apartment for Halloween. And also some ideas for creating a themed photo zone.

Table decoration for children

On Halloween, there are usually pumpkin dishes on the table. Even if you're not a regular pumpkin pie fan, carving pumpkin jacks is too much fun to pass up. For children, pumpkin can be replaced with orange or bell pepper! Working with them is easier and faster, and the result is no less attractive.

Here’s an idea on how to decorate glass glasses or wine glasses with black tape or isolette tape.