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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 cook original crafts on Halloween,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. Grasp 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. For this purpose a large wooden box, but you can use it instead cardboard box, to which you can attach several shelves and decorate with paints (gouache) and/or black adhesive tape (or electrical 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 trash 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. Please pay attention Special attention the most complex parts of the body. 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.

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

How to make DIY Halloween decorations from paper

Halloween (or All Hallows' Eve)– ancient holiday, which 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 is Halloween night - one of the most popular holidays among children and youth, a time for fun dress-up parties, when you can try on carnival costume and have a lot of fun and fool around with your friends.

The well-known symbols of Halloween are black cats, the bats, spiders and everything that is somehow 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 colored paper black color.

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 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 and effective way Halloween decor - 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

It's simply remarkable in its simplicity and original decoration 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

The theme of the ancient Celtic holiday of Saints' Day - Halloween turned out to be to the liking of the perky Russian people. The celebration of jokes and pranks quickly gained popularity among the population along with other folk celebrations and festivities. Making Halloween decorations with your own hands is very simple, because it requires imagination and a cheerful attitude, and Russians are not lacking in this.

Making your own Halloween decorations is very easy.

Giving free rein to wild human imagination for the celebration of Halloween, you can make almost all the scary characters with your own hands from scrap materials.

1. It could be a mummy made of bandages with button eyes or bats made of black paper.
2. Doors wrapped in cobwebs with spectacular rubber spiders will scare anyone.
3. With pumpkin - the main attribute of the celebration - many different variations have been invented. For example, in the absence of a real vegetable, you can make a pumpkin out of paper.
4. Bats hung on a spiral from a chandelier will not only float colorfully around the room, but when the lights are turned off, they create a shadowy illusion of being in a mouse den.

Gallery: Halloween decorations (25 photos)

Room decor for Halloween (video)

How to Decorate a Room for Halloween

To get started, you need to decide on the options for how exactly you want to decorate the room. Very simple and original, and most importantly quick crafts will allow you to bring your house into a real palace of ghosts and monsters in a matter of minutes.

Very simple and original, and most importantly quick crafts will allow you to turn your house into a real palace of ghosts and monsters in a matter of minutes

Original decor ideas

1. A very creative idea for decorating small jars to look like mummies. Glue black paper eyes on each jar and paint them with shiny varnish. Then wrap the jar with pieces of gauze, leaving only the eyes outside; cut the ends of the gauze with scissors at the bottom so that the bottom is a little frayed. Place a lit candle inside and your mummy is ready.
2. A bottle of strong drink can be painted bright orange for the holiday. Draw a funny face on it with black paint.
3. For little floating ghosts, take a Christmas tree garland with round balls. Hang a piece of white fabric on each balloon, making a hole at the top to thread through the bulb. Tighten the hole with thread. On the ghost's head, paint the eyes and mouth, and tighten the bottom with thread. Hang a garland around the hall of the house and light it in the evening in the presence of guests. Vivid impressions are guaranteed.
4. Hanging ghosts look good. Take some foam balls and a piece of old gauze. Draw black on the balls acrylic paint terrifying eyes. Wrap them in gauze and hang the balls near the entrance to the room. Don't forget to give the gauze a messy look with scissors. For full effect, you can smear the gauze ends a little more with paint.
5. Decorate indoor flowers in a vase on your home table with small artificial spiders. Take strands of yarn and widen the ends slightly to make it look like legs. Fold several threads up to 2 cm long together and make a knot. Glue white beads to the knot for eyes. Spray the spider with hairspray and let it dry.
6. An ordinary toilet paper roll will help you make unusual glowing eyes. Cut out a scary image with large pupils in the middle of the sleeve. Place a glow stick inside each sleeve.
7. Take orange balloon. Paint a scary face on it using a stencil.
8. Small oranges can also become elements holiday decor. Glue a tousled fringe of woolen threads at the base of the fruit with tape, and draw eyes and a mouth using acrylic paint or a stencil.
9. Fold the parchment paper several times into a square. Cut out the silhouette of the ghost, stretch it. It turns out to be a garland of many little ghosts holding hands.

Halloween Stencils: Interesting Ideas

Here you can give free rein to your imagination and imagination. Draw your favorite face or image on a thick piece of cardboard. Carefully think through the details, do not allow the design to be asymmetrical. Then cut out the template along the drawn contours. For frequent use of the stencil, it will be useful to stick tape on it. This is necessary so that the paint does not remain on the pattern and, accordingly, does not stain other crafts.

How to make a bat for Halloween

You will need:

• Black colored paper;
• Pencil or bat stencil;
• Thread;
• PVA glue.

This bat is very easy to glue

How to do:

1. Draw the outlines of a bat on paper. Cut out the figure. It can then be used as a stencil.
2. We trace the outlines of the paper mouse onto black paper. Cut out figures from colored paper.
3. To make the material dense, you need to make a double mouse, and then glue the back and front sides together.
4. For a believable image, after the paper has dried, slightly straighten and bend the wings.

Another version of a slightly embarrassed bat

These mice can be glued to the walls of the room with tape, or hung on a chandelier. Pull the thread between the two parts being glued in advance.

Scary Halloween silhouette

It is better to involve all family members to make the decorations. Give everyone the task of drawing a specific part of the silhouette. If you are using black paper, tape each piece together on the wrong side. After drying, carefully glue the silhouette onto the doorway in the room.

How to make a black cat from a pumpkin

Cute black cats at the doorstep will greet guests with their bright yellow, flickering, predatory gaze.

You will need:

• Several pumpkins different sizes;
• Knife, spoon, scissors, nails without heads;
• Black acrylic paint;
• Disposable candles.

The black cat and Halloween are inseparable

How to do:

1. For a cat, we choose a vegetable of this size: one smaller round pumpkin - the head, a large oblong torso, and a tail - small size elongated.
2. Selected pumpkin - cut off the head at the base of the tail, scrape it well with a spoon so that the vegetable is empty inside.
3. Draw eyes, cut out with a knife.
4. Cut out ears from black paper and insert them into the openings made on the sides of the middle pumpkin.
5. Color the elements of the cat's details black.
6. After drying, connect the head to the body using nails.
7. Place a saucer with a lit candle in the hollow head of the pumpkin.

Place the cat on the step, making sure that the structure does not fall. Your cat is ready for the terrifying “meow.”

How to make a spider garland

To get started, figure out how you plan to hang the spider web garland.

You will need:

• Wide gray or black thread of wool;
• Double-sided tape;
• Black threads for spiders, beads white, PVA glue.

How to do:

1. When choosing a place for a garland, plan a meaningful symmetrical pattern, because everything should be as close as possible to the natural conditions of the spider world. We glue squares of tape at the points of contact with the wall. If you are planning a large web, you will need a lot of squares.
2. For applique, it is best to make your own spider from threads; they are lighter in weight. Take three pieces of thread, 2 cm each. Rub the ends of the threads with your fingers, connect the threads with a knot right in the middle. Glue beads onto the knot.
3. Pull the web thread through all fastening points with tape, pressing down at each fastening with your finger. Attach the spiders to the improvised web using double-sided tape.

Halloween lamp: step by step instructions

Necessary:

• Lamp with lampshade;
• A piece of gauze or cotton fabric;
• Scotch;
• Scissors;
• Stencil figurine of bats and spiders.

Lamps can also be made from cans

How to do:

1. For the product, it is better to take a lamp with a light lampshade. Carefully grabbing the tape at the base of the lampshade, wrap gauze or chintz fabric around the rim to the lower end. Secure the gauze with tape.
2. Cut out figures of bats and spiders from black paper or cardboard.
3. Attach each figure with double-sided tape to the lamp shade. Before gluing with tape, bend the legs and wings in the opposite direction from the lampshade, thereby visually creating the effect of flying bats and crawling insects.

Scary ghost

Necessary:

• A piece of long gauze;
• Styrofoam ball for ghost head;
• Plastic bottle;
• Liquid starch;
• Scissors, thin wire, hair dryer.

What to do:

1. Place a foam ball around your throat plastic bottle, make arms out to the sides from wire.
2. Place gauze on the structure and cut the bottom with scissors so that there is a frayed bottom.
3. Wet the gauze with liquid starch. The more starch, the more stable the future ghost will be. Use a hair dryer to dry.
4. Cut out eyes and a mouth from black paper and stick to the base of the head.

When the starch dries, the ghost can be removed from the structure.

How to decorate your house for Halloween (video)

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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 are still small and very small in the middle. important elements. 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.

There is one day in the year when the evening streets are filled with witches and ghosts, pumpkin heads mysteriously flicker with empty eye sockets in the windows of houses, and a vampire may knock on your door. The mysterious and creepy Halloween holiday, widely celebrated in the United States, is gaining increasing popularity in European countries, and now in our country, children and adults are looking forward to the arrival of the most mystical date of the year. For Russians, All Saints' Day has not become the main holiday, but it is an excellent occasion to get together with family or friends and decorate the house for Halloween with your own hands.

The origin of the Halloween holiday

Its roots go back thousands of years, and oddly enough, this celebration combines pagan traditions of honoring otherworldly forces and the worship of Christian saints. Hundreds of centuries ago, Celtic tribes lived in Northern France and Great Britain, who considered October 31 to be the beginning of the winter season, and at the same time the last day of the year. On the night of November 1, which the Celts called Samhain (Samhain), the gates to the other world opened, and its inhabitants burst into our reality.

They put out the fire in houses and put on animal skins and scary masks to scare away the spirits. Although you could try to appease them with treats, which should also be at the ready. All residents gathered around huge bonfires, where the Druids sacrificed animals, and then everyone carried a piece of sacred fire placed inside a pumpkin to their home. Later, with the advent of Christianity, on November 1 they began to celebrate the Catholic Day of All Saints - All Hallows Even, the abbreviated name of which later became known to all of us as Halloween.

Since then, pumpkins and fire have become indispensable attributes of the holiday, skins and masks have turned into masquerade costumes, and it is customary to treat children with sweets who go from house to house and collect tribute to the shouts of “Treat or regret!”

Preparing for the holiday and decorating the house for All Saints' Day is no less interesting than the event itself, and besides, there is plenty of room for your imagination to run wild. You need to have time to prepare costumes and masks, stock up on sweets, and decorate not only your home, but also your property.

The choice of mystical and terrifying “things” for the home is very extensive. An apartment or house can be decorated in the style of an abandoned castle or a vampire’s lair, the main thing is to use your imagination. So, what can you keep in mind when decorating your home for Halloween?

Figures and figurines

This category is one of the most impressive. If your guests are greeted at the entrance by a glowing ghost or a hanging figure of a dead bride, then the right mood will be created even before the party starts. Mummies and shroud-wrapped corpses, ominous ghosts and monsters with pumpkin heads, rebel zombies and vampires, mannequins of ghouls and werewolves - all these decorative evil spirits do an excellent job of decorating the house for Halloween.

Flora and fauna

If you don’t like too sinister characters, you can get by with more “cute” decorations. For example, cover the walls of the room with black shaggy vines, scatter rusty chains on the floor, and decorate the tables with bouquets of black Gothic roses. Spiders of different sizes and types on the ceiling, rats in the corners, black crows and evil bats on the ceiling will complement the Halloween decorations and temporarily transform your cozy home in the sorcerer's dwelling.

Halloween Wall Decorations

Glowing skulls, terrifying masks, giant cobwebs and bloody curtains will drape the floral wallpaper and add gloom to the holiday. There are also decorations for glass - with the help of 3D printing you can now create surprisingly realistic prints of bloody palms or stains on a window.

Arms, legs and other anatomical elements

Fans of horror films know that not a single feast of evil spirits is complete without dismembered bodies. Discreet people can be offered as home decorations for Halloween models of hands, feet, brains, eyes and other similar things, which, of course, are scary, but still, upon closer examination, turn out to be far from the original.

Table decoration for All Saints' Day

If your party plan includes a feast, then you will need table decorations. These can be candlesticks and skulls, glowing pumpkins and fortune teller balls. If guests are not squeamish, you can scatter cockroaches and mice, spiders and worms picturesquely on the tablecloth. They will look very impressive and original candlesticks– for example, in the form of a skeleton hand.

Window decorations

Stencils for window decoration can be purchased in an online store, or you can make them yourself. They can be in the form of bats, black cats, walking dead and other frightening symbols. You can cover the window with plastic cobwebs or garlands of small paper pumpkins.

Halloween decorations for the yard or summer cottage

It’s especially nice to decorate a private house for Halloween, because the scope for imagination increases. The outside of the house can be decorated with the same vines and glowing branches, and you can hang decorative moss and garlands of toadstools. An indispensable attribute is jack-o-lanterns, but they can be completely replaced by ghosts flickering from phosphorus, joyfully grinning illuminated skulls, or melted black candles. You can install a magical portal or a glowing tombstone in the middle of your lawn. Hands that have come out of the ground (by the way, you can install signs with inscriptions in them) or skeletons will decorate your home no less picturesquely for the holiday of All Saints.

DIY Halloween decorations

If you want to thoroughly enjoy the holiday and show your creativity when decorating your house for Halloween, then you can make interesting decorations with your own hands. Moreover, there are many options for such crafts and many of them do not require special materials and time.

How to make your own Halloween pumpkin

The main attribute of the All Saints Day holiday is, of course, a Jack-o-lantern made from a pumpkin. Making such a lantern yourself is not at all difficult, you just need to follow a few simple steps:

• sharpen a long and narrow knife with which you will cut out the “face” of our terrible lantern, the knife should be very sharp and not very long, otherwise it will be difficult to handle it,
• Wash and dry the prepared pumpkin. It is not at all necessary to take a round orange pumpkin; a pear-shaped pumpkin or a green pumpkin will look very stylish,
• cut off the very top of the pumpkin and remove the seeds, do it very carefully - this way your lantern will last longer and will not deteriorate,
• Take a dark marker and draw an outline, which you will then use to cut out the “face” of the pumpkin lantern. It can be evil or kind, surprised or upset - let your imagination fly!
• If you have a very large pumpkin and several small ones, you can make a whole composition out of them to decorate your home.

How to carve a pumpkin for Halloween - video

Paper Halloween pumpkin

If you don’t have a pumpkin on hand, and the holiday is about to begin, don’t worry - the main symbol of Halloween can be made from paper! To make a pumpkin from paper, we will need a sheet of orange and green thick and double-sided paper from a set for children's crafts, a pen, stationery tape or a glue gun, and scissors. Here are just two of many ways:

Method number one

• cut out strips of orange paper from 2 to 5 cm wide, depending on the size of the paper pumpkin,
• fold the strips crosswise in 4-5 pieces and fasten them at the intersection,
• we fasten 2 such “crosses” again in the middle,
• We fasten 1 strip with tape at the top so that an oval is formed, then we fasten all the other strips in the same way,
• we curl a strip of green paper about 2 cm wide using scissors,
• cut out leaves for our paper pumpkin from green paper,
• We fasten the curl and leaves at the top of our pumpkin, covering the place of fastening, the paper pumpkin is ready!

Method number two

• cut out circles of the required size from orange paper, six pieces for each paper pumpkin,
• we fold each circle into pieces and glue the halves with another circle so that we get a three-dimensional circle,
• Using scissors we give the resulting sphere the shape of a pumpkin,
• We make the tail from green paper or wrapping paper, having previously twisted it into a flagellum. Our pumpkin is ready!

You won't be able to put a candle inside a paper pumpkin, but these pumpkins make great table decorations or can be put together in a garland.

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