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It’s almost Halloween and if you haven’t decorated for the Autumn season yet, or are looking to amp up the ‘spooky factor’ around the home, use some of these freaky new ideas to bubble up some inspiration.

As the ‘witching hour’ draws near, your home will be oozing with that festive Halloween spirit the holiday is best known for. So grab your broomsticks and glue sticks and howl at the moon!

13 Halloween Decorating Idea Hacks To Spook Things Up…

1. ‘No Carve’ October

Tired of carving pumpkins year after year? Just want to make nice looking pumpkins for the Halloween season without needing knives and candles? Instead, try using fabric paint or chalk paint to draw a design on your pumpkin or simply change it’s color to something other than orange. Vertically wrap twine around your pumpkin as shown in the image below, using hot glue to secure at the stem. Use your favorite decorative duct tape to create a unique colored pattern, or even use gold leaf and/or glitter spray paint along the tops or bottoms of your colored pumpkins.

2. Dripping Blood Candles

Burn a smaller red candle resting safely at the top of a tall, unused white candle (use toothpicks to secure). In doing so, the red wax drips down the white candle creating a ‘dripping blood candle’ sure to add extra dimension to any Halloween party or a night in watching scary movies.

3. Creeper-In-The-Shadows

Grab an empty toilet paper or paper towel roll and cut slanted, creepy shaped eyes out of the cardboard. Then, tape a lit glow stick inside of it and place them in the branches of your outdoor trees and shrubs. At night, they appear as though someone or some ‘thing’ is lurking at a distance.

4. Spider Pumpkins

Get a bunch of tiny, miniature pumpkins and hot glue or thumb tack black pipe cleaner ‘legs’ to their sides, making it look as though your home is being overrun by little ‘spiderkins’. Leave a trail of them winding their way down the sidewalk or creeping out from under the stairs.

5. Get Gothic Vibes

Wrap small candles or small pumpkins with a black lace stocking. This adds a classic, vintage, goth type of feel to them almost instantly.

6. Pumpkin Bowls

Get some small to medium-small sized pumpkins and cut off the tops. Hollow out the inside of the pumpkins and use the remainder as a pumpkin bowl. Fill it with vegan candy for the trick-or-treater’s, serve it as a platter for chips and dip, or even use it as an all-natural vase for your favorite fall flowers (spray paint the flowers black for extra-added spookiness).

7. Icy Cut-Off Hand Chills

Chill a bowl of cold apple-cider or fruit punch with an ice-cube in the shape of a human hand. Simply rinse the inside of a latex glove and fill it with water. Seal the end of it with a rubber band and freeze over night. Remove the glove and use the hand shaped ice to chill party beverages.

8. Spooky Window Eyes

Cover two windows at the front of your home with a large piece of black construction paper, being sure it covers both width and length. Before securing to the inside of the windows with tape or tack, cut out two evil-looking, large eyes. This brings the outside of the home to life, adding extra ‘eek’.

9. Carving King

Try a few ‘next-level’ pumpkin carving hacks for a killer Halloween! Everything from using a hand-drill to a cookie cutter. Make a flaming pumpkin, to a smoking pumpkin, or your own pumpkin sized beverage cooler for house-guests.

10. String Some Spirits

Acquire a string of lights, whether white, orange, or any preferable color and attach small, clear plastic drinking cups to the bulbs. Simply poke a small hole at the bottom of each cup to string the bulb through and hang these lights somewhere guests will see. Use a black marker to draw jack-o-lantern faces on the cups, or use a small piece of cheese-cloth, or other ripped white cloth to draw faces, creating little ghost spirits.

11. Kitty Candy Bags

Get a pack a brown paper bags and cut each bag in half. Then, cut out cat ears on either side as well as a round shaped head. Fill the bags with a few pieces of candy to make easy gift-bags for house guests or party-goers.

12. Halloween Fortune Scrolls

If hosting a Halloween dinner party, combine a spoon, fork, and knife in a uniquely interesting way for the meal. Use a note card to write a creepy fortune, decorate it with orange and black ink or with festive stickers, then wrap it around the utensil bundle and secure with a small black ribbon.

13. Mummy Throw Pillows

Grab a few white throw pillows, or line a regular pillow with a white pillowcase and stand it up vertically. Then, draw a pair of eyes on a piece of plain printing paper and wrap the pillow with white bandaging, securing the piece of paper to the pillow in the process. However, be sure the eyes peek out from behind the bandages.

Whichever Halloween ideas you have up your sleeve, remember to have fun and stay safe! Have any other crazy wild ideas to share? Add them in the comments section! ♥

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