by L.S. Watts

Created on: October 19, 2009

There are countless ways to decorate your home. The best way to add a personal touch to the home for Halloween is to use handmade decorations. No one else will have the exact same decor as you because each piece made is different in some way per the individual. Many of these projects can be made by children; others are more on an adult only level. Either way, you home will look great this Halloween.

Halloween Cutouts

Instead of buying Halloween clings for the window, consider making your own decorations for the windows. This is great for the kids to get involved with too. Using black construction paper, cut out bats and black cats. You can also cut out pumpkins from orange construction paper along with shapes from black construction paper for the face of the jack-o-lantern. You can take this a step further by cutting out a black witch's hat for the jack-o-lantern. Using white paper, you can cut out ghosts to tape to the window.

Giant Spider

At most stores you can buy this decoration to attach to the ceiling, but it would be cheaper for you to make your own using two 30-gallon black garbage bags, old newspaper, construction paper, and push pins. First take one garbage bag and cut out strips for the legs. Next, fill the second bag with old newspaper. Take the legs and tie to the spider's body, creating a head and body; tying the end of the body. Cut out eyes using construction paper and glue to the head. Now is time to hang the giant spider to the ceiling. Create bends in the legs and attach to the ceiling with push pins. Now you have a giant spider hanging from the ceiling that is sure to be the center of attention.

Halloween Tree

To make a Halloween tree all you have to do is set up your Christmas tree and create Halloween themed ornaments. You can choose to leave the tree up through Christmas. Just change the ornaments to accommodate Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Another popular variation is taking an old Christmas tree and spray painting it black. Allow to dry and then decorate.

Halloween Door Hangers

Craft stores are teaming with Halloween foam cut outs. They also have foam door hangers available. Use the Halloween cut outs to create a Halloween door hanger. The kids will love to get involved with this craft project.

Another version of this for adults to do is to wood burn a Halloween design on a wooden door hanger. All you need is a wooden door hanger found at craft stores, a wood burning utensil with tips, and a Halloween design. Unless you are

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