50 Do-It-Yourself Halloween Ideas
October 19, 2007 by Deborah Ng
Filed under Around the House, Crafty Solutions, Doing it Yourself, Easy Entertainment, General, Reusing and Recycling, Simple Pleasures, free stuff, how-to
When my son and I go out Trick or Treating on Halloween, we especially enjoy looking at the decorations on the houses in our neighborhood. There are a lot of Do-It-Yourselfers in the area, and I’m amazed at how creative they are. Taking inspiration from my neighbors, I give you:
50 Do-It-Yourself Halloween Ideas:
Halloween Costumes:
- Operation game costume - All you need is some cardboard, some markers and a red rubber nose. A hospital gown is a plus.
- How about a can of worms? That doesn’t look like a very happy kid, though.
- It must be hard to go trick or treating as a Jack in the Box.
- And then there’s this fairy costume…
- A rainbow alien
- Alien abductions
- You could be a missing kid on a milk carton.
- How about a Ghostbuster?
- Here’s a whole bunch of frugal costume ideas from Thrifty Fun.
- You can go trick or treating as a crayon.
- The bowling pin idea is pretty clever.
- I like these bobble heads too.
- This clever kid went as a letter to her grandma.
- A deviled egg…get it?
- Here are some fun and very creative ideas including a bat and a Rubik’s Cube.
- If you have the body for it, you can be a beauty contest contestant.
- How about a Godzilla costume complete with airplane attack?
- Why not go as your favorite alcoholic beverage?
- Or your favorite video game?
- This keg costume is perfect for home or dorm.
- A vampire costume wouldn’t be complete without bloody fangs.
Halloween Decoration Ideas
- Jack-O-Lantern.com helps you with everything you need to know to carve a pumpkin.
- How about this awesome pneumatic tombstone?
- A scary giant black spider.
- This swamp thing would be an amazing prop for a haunted hayride or haunted house.
- …And a giant hand for your driveway or front lawn?
- Need step by step instructions for constructing a cemetary fence and tombstones?
- This is creepy. Check out this giant moth.
- I love this ambitious animatronic skeleton.
- Bouncing Bucky is also ambitious…and very cool.
- You don’t need a big house to make an endless hallway.
- And if you’re really feeling ambitious you can make a robot monster.
- What Halloween party would be complete without a flying crank ghost?
- Talking skeletons are fun too.
- Here’s a very cool haunted scarecrow.
- Gargoyles add a little something, something, don’t you think?
- And of course you need a headless horseman!
- How about a witch complete with a flaming cauldron?
- Love these aliens in a jar.
- How about a bleeding portrait?
Food Ideas
- Check out Ziek’s Halloween party.
- Freaky Witche’s Fingers
- Eyeballs
- Meringue Bones
- Spicy bat wings
- Spider web dip
- Kitty litter cake – this one just skeeves me.
- Bloody Eyeball Martinis
- Cobweb cookies
- Brain Pate
These costume ideas are BRILLIANT — my husband and I just got invited to a Halloween party this weekend, and I think I’m going to have to break out the markers and make us proper Operation board game getups.