Best Halloween 2018 Decors

Beyond the scary movies, candy wrappers, and trick or treating, lay a panoply of designs that make Halloween a holiday like no other. While All Hallow's Eve, from which the name “Halloween” was derived, certainly possesses a certain devilish charm, it is truly the holiday that keeps on giving. It paves the way for holiday celebrations for nearly three months, and charismatically captures our attention. It is not only about ghouls and goblins, but decorations and designs that delight the living and “dead” alike. 

Do-It- Yourself Halloween Decor

While stores are teeming with pre- packaged decorations, some folks prefer channeling their creativity into homemade designs. And when it comes to do-it-yourself projects, you can get your kids, students, and friends in on the action. 

Where do you start? 

Construction paper, markers, paints, and crayons are always a good place to start in creating signs that say anything from ‘Happy Halloween’ to ‘Do Not Enter.’  To add to your signage, you can turn to the internet and download pictures of witches, jack-o-lanterns, and just about anything that says Halloween is here! 

If you are not the artsy type, you can surround your home, or even a small part of it, with black candles, large or tealight size, dim the lights, and put on some spooky music to set the mood. 

Looking for projects that allow you to reuse and recycle?  With an empty, plastic, gallon milk container, you can draw a really simple face (think: big circles for eyes and a wide, surprised mouth), place it next to a string of electric icicle holiday lights, and you have got yourself a lantern. 

With surgical gloves and a few pieces of ribbon, you can fill each of the gloves’ fingers with candy, confetti, or just about anything. Hang the gloves from a wall or light fixture, and your detached extremities will make quite the ghastly statement. 

Store Bought Halloween Designs

If you are more of a left- brain kind of person and prefer leaving the decorating up to the experts, there are plenty of options available to you, too. 

Before you purchase signs, wall hangings, or cobweb material though, head over to your local grocery store, farm, or pumpkin patch. Not only can you pick up a pumpkin and turn it into an incredible jack-o-lantern, but you can use the insides to make pumpkin pie, pumpkin bisque, roasted pumpkin seeds, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin bread… you get the idea. 

Well placed cauldrons, witch pinatas, and candy baskets are pretty perfect for the season, and do not require a lot of space or energy to set up or take down. If however you are not labor- phobic, you can get really elaborate by hanging ripped sheets or paper tablecloths, ‘gateways to the dark side,’ that make it look like you are walking from one world to the next. 

Other ideas include taking several hula skirts piled on top of each other, placed on a narrow cabinet with a hat and strategically placed glasses, in order to welcome Cousin It to your home. Add lawn ornaments of Frankenstein, zombies, gargoyles, or movie serial killers and you have got yourself a scary Halloween house.

Enjoy Your Halloween!

Whether you purchase your decorations or make them yourself, enjoy the day and everything that goes into making it the screamfest you deserve it to be. It does not matter if you are in costume or not, but rather that you embody the disembodied excitement (and candy) that awaits. 

Happy Halloween!