Great Design Ideas From Kelly Edwards

Inexpensive Halloween Decorating Ideas

by Kelly Edwards | October 21st, 2009

Martha Stewart

Its Halloween decorating time again my little ghouls and ghosts.  This year you don’t have to spend a lot to celebrate in a spooky fashion.  Here are a few simple and easy holiday decorating tricks that will certainly get you in the spirit.

Buy inexpensive artwork from the thrift store, take out the existing picture and leave the glass.  Give the frame a coat of black paint and use Looking Glass Spray Paint by Krylon to spray the glass.  Or you can also go to http://vintageprintable.com/wordpress/and print up free art to insert into frame (they have some for Halloween or choose one of black crows).  Another option is to purchase a piece of mylar (mirrored film) to insert into the frame for a spooky mirrored effect.

Go to the dollar store to pick up skulls, crows, and spider rings.  Use as table décor by placing them around the food.

Go batty!  Go out to your yard and pick up a branch or two and spray paint them silver.  Using the free templates online, print out a bat and copy onto black construction paper.  After you’ve cut out the bats, tie them to branches with fishing line to make a scary tree or simply just hang them from your ceiling at different heights.

Spray pumpkins with glitter spray paint.  Go for green, orange, black or cream.

Cover your furniture, mantel or accessories with cheesecloth then sprinkle a few leaves or spiders on it.  Or simply just cover furniture with white sheets.

Orange and red light bulbs will really creep the place out.

Make table centerpieces with black vases filled with orange roses or kale and don’t forget the candelabras.

  1. Using glow in the dark spray paint, spray various inexpensive items that you picked up from a thrift store.  When the lights are off, the room will glow.
  4. Using a drill, drill your design into a pumpkin instead of carving it.  For instance instead of carving a bat, why not drill the outline in.

Invest in plastic silver serving trays that you can find at the dollar store and then place them on top of pumpkins as your table décor(see the Martha pic above).  Cut the top off of a pumpkin wide enough for the serving platter to sit on top of it.

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