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Bloody footprints on the glass, ominous witches above the ceiling, pumpkins with a vampire grin... - on this day you can “let the genie out of the bottle” and enjoy the scary-funny atmosphere of mysticism. Making cool decorations for Halloween.

He came to us from the West and charmed us with his mystery and unbridled enthusiasm. This is one of those holidays that, without it, loses its meaning and charm. During Halloween, everyone can feel like a little mystic and wizard, turning their home into an abode of evil spirits and the other world.

Subjects for decoration for All Saints' Day can be very different. But the main themes are almost always the same - the occult, horror, death, mystical characters. The main palette of the holiday consists of black and orange shades with rare inclusions of white, green and red. The original attributes of the celebration were symbols of autumn and harvest: pumpkins, yellowed leaves, garden scarecrows, ripe corn, bare tree branches.

All this is still relevant today. But nowadays the emphasis is increasingly placed on horror and fear: decorations have become more and more creepy, and the colors have become more and more gloomy. But it is always important to know when to stop, avoiding bad taste and unnecessary tragedy. It's a holiday after all! We share with you original ideas for Halloween decor:

1. Jolly Jack Pumpkin

A simple and affordable way to bring the ambience of the famous holiday into the interior is to use its most famous symbol - the “Jack-O-Lantern” made of pumpkin. However, in order to skillfully carve a lantern, you need to practice a little in carving and, as they say, get better at it.

If you don’t want to bother with pulling out and scraping out the pulp, you can simply draw a face on the peel of the vegetable and place a candle on the top of its head.

For added drama and a pop of contrast, some pumpkins can be painted black and mixed with orange ones.

Vampire pumpkins will look original and ominous. It is enough to cut a small hole for the mouth and insert purchased vampire jaws into it. Rowan berries are suitable for red eyes.

There is no need to specially catch and dry these harmless animals. Mouse figures cut out of colored cardboard are quite suitable. For greater expressiveness, attach button eyes to the figures. In the company of a garland of black mice, a garland of white paper ghosts will look harmonious.

3. Cocoons with spiders

Cocoons with small spiders hanging from a chandelier or ceiling look funny and beautiful. They are made from thick white threads, which are soaked in PVA glue and wrapped around a small balloon. The next morning, when the glue on the thread is completely dry, the ball base is pierced and removed. Small spiders are attached to different sides of the cocoons - purchased or made independently from cardboard.

Leaving them couldn’t be easier: dip your palms in red paint and place them on the glass of a window or door. Such a small but creepy detail will be very useful in the Halloween atmosphere.

5. Mice on the steps

If the house has a staircase, it is a pity to leave it without decoration. A good option is homemade stickers in the shape of mice with minks. If you have small pumpkins, you can decorate the edge of the steps with them along with candles. Only in this case it is important to remember safety precautions in order to prevent a fire.

6. Ghosts in windows

Another easy way to decorate windows for Halloween is to attach paper ghosts to the glass, peeking out from the frame. If desired, ghosts can be painted on the glass with white or black paint.

7. Someone from the tank

You can decorate for Halloween not only living rooms, but also office ones. A cute something peeking out of the cistern can be easily made from black sticky paper.

8. Ghosts in jars

LED strips or garlands of different shades are good to use for making creepy-funny jars. Draw some faces on the front of the jar, place an LED garland or strip there and close the container with a lid. These glowing Jacks and ghosts can be placed throughout the house.

White plastic canisters or barrels are also suitable for such an undertaking. Draw creepy faces on their outside, and place LEDs inside. Candles will no longer work in this case.

Mice with wings are the most popular Halloween attribute. What are they made from? But the simpler and more profitable it is, the more your time and budget will be saved. For example, a good solution is to make mice from toilet paper rolls. Paint the material black and bend the cardboard at both ends to give the sleeve a rectangular shape. The sharp corners will serve as ears and paws for mice. Glue cardboard wings to the back and hang the finished product from the ceiling or chandelier.

10. Witch's table

It’s quite easy to turn an ordinary table into a witch’s table by putting striped stockings and worn black pointed-toed shoes on its legs, traditional for Western folklore. Of course, a witch in Russian folk culture does not wear this. Rather, bast shoes and torn onucha (a white strip of fabric for wrapping the leg with a tourniquet) are suitable for her.

11. Creepy flowers

Floral decor is relevant for any holiday, including Halloween. But the approach to composing bouquets must be special... For example, white roses look terribly beautiful surrounded by small spiders, snakes and midges.

Black or dark purple roses with large pupils instead of a core look no less terrifying. For this craft, artificial flowers and eyes from old dolls, or those purchased at a joke store, are suitable.

12. Funny briquettes

They can be made of bricks, pieces of boards or cardboard. They need to be painted in the desired shade and decorated with figured pieces of fabric or paper.

13. Pillow Jack

If you have a lot of small pillows around the house, decorate a few of them in Halloween style. You can purchase orange or black pillows and complement them with themed faces, stories or phrases.

One of the scariest decorating ideas is to trap a head in a glass jar. But first you need to find a suitable creepy photograph of a human head, print it, roll the photo and place it in a jar of water. Because of the water, the image will look three-dimensional and more realistic.

Decorate the entrance or interior door in an original way in the style of the famous creation of Victor Frankenstein. You don't need a lot of details. The strand of hair will be a black cloth hanging from the top of the door, cut in uneven zigzags. The eyes are circles of white and black paper, and instead of the mouth there is a strip of black paper or fabric and one or two white squares for teeth. Be sure to add the symbolic black scar on the side.

By the way, Frankenstein is far from the only character that can be used to decorate a door. Mummy, monsters, villains, witches... - any of your favorite holiday heroes can have the honor of being symbolically imprinted on your door.

Plain white candles can be transformed into spooky Halloween decorations with the help of red paint. Apply it to the base under the wick and on the leaking wax - and in front of you are candles melting with blood.

17. Floating Ghosts

Don't like witches, skeletons and pumpkin faces? Then try letting a flock of cheerful ghosts into your house. Make them from gauze. The easiest way is to take a white balloon, inflate it a little, throw gauze or tulle over it, wrap it at the base of the ball with white thread and hang it from the top.

If you want airy and weightless ghosts, use the ball only for the base. The principle here is the same as when making cocoons - gauze needs to be dipped in PVA glue, cover its ball on a plastic bottle with wires in both directions and let the composition dry. Then all that remains is to get rid of the base and add an eye to the ghost using buttons, fabric or cardboard.

18. Sinister Web

According to legends, evil spirits like to settle in abandoned places where humans rarely set foot. Therefore, dust and cobwebs cannot be avoided in such corners. Use this symbolic attribute in your interior decor. For it you will need balls of white, thin, woolen threads. Thin gauze will also work. You can wrap an artificial web around any part of the room, wrap it around a chandelier, chairs or part of a window.

They can be everywhere! Sticking out of a flower pot, out of a wall, or peeking out from under the sofa. Choose bright, striped socks and fill them with foam or cotton wool. Then dress the resulting feet in moody black boots or heels.

20. Mysterious refrigerator

The refrigerator deserves to be dressed up for the holiday. Its monochrome shade will serve as a good background for the embodiment of any character: from a ghost to a mummy.

On the night of October 31 to November 1, one of the oldest holidays in the world is celebrated - Halloween. This ancient Celtic celebration has an interesting history, original traditions and funny paraphernalia. The holiday strangely combines two traditions: the honoring of evil spirits and the worship of all saints.

In the USA, Europe and Canada, on this day it is customary to dress up in costumes of evil spirits, hold masquerades, light bonfires and build jack-o'-lanterns. It is not surprising that on the approaches to the famous holiday, many people have a question: how to make a pumpkin for Halloween? Today we will try to give you comprehensive instructions on how to make a Jack-O-Lantern.

Pumpkin is the main attribute of Halloween. Celebrants, as a rule, cut out ominous faces on the ripe fruit and insert a candle inside, constructing a kind of lantern. The habit of making vegetable lamps originated in Ireland and Great Britain. Celtic monks (Druids) made them from turnips, beets, rutabaga and used them to drive out evil spirits.

Initially, this ritual had nothing to do with Halloween, but in the 19th century, North America made it the main tradition of this holiday. Only instead of these vegetables they began to use pumpkin, since it symbolizes the harvest time. Americans named the jack-o-lantern the Jack-O-Lantern and made it the official symbol of Halloween.

Jack Lantern - who is he?

Before you start making a pumpkin for Halloween, you should familiarize yourself with the legend of Jack-O-Lantern, whose soul still wanders in search of peace.

According to legend, Jack led a miserable life as a lazy farmer, drunkard and thief. Fleeing once again with stolen goods from a crowd of angry peasants, he met the devil, who announced his hour of death. But Jack did not want to die and asked the messenger of hell to delay his death a little, offering in return to discredit the sinless peasants.

The insidious agreement was that the devil was supposed to turn into a gold coin with which Jack would pay for the stolen things. The coin will then disappear and the greedy villagers will start a fight to find out who stole it. The devil liked Jack's idea. He immediately turned himself into a gold coin and climbed into the thief's pocket.

But since the stolen item was a cross, the demon instantly lost his power. Jack released him on the condition that he would not take his soul to hell.

But when he died, his soul was not accepted either in heaven or in hell. Finding his way in the pitch darkness, Jack asked the devil for a lantern, to which he threw him several smoldering coals. The thief built a lamp from a pumpkin, put coals in it and began to wander between heaven and earth in search of peace. This is how the Jack Lantern appeared, commemorated annually on the night of November 1st.

How to Make a Halloween Pumpkin: Step-by-Step Guide

To make a Jack-O-Lantern you will need the following arsenal of available tools:

• pumpkin;
• cutting board;
• knives (one long, one short with a thin, sharp blade);
• spoon;
• felt-tip pen, marker or stencil with a face;
• candle.

Attention! Try to choose the freshest pumpkin. The skin of such a fruit has not yet hardened, which means it will be easier for you to carve patterns on it.

So that the lantern can not only fulfill its purpose on the day of the holiday, but also please the eye afterwards, check the pumpkin for the presence/absence of damage and rotten areas. At the same time, its shape and size do not matter.

Let's get started. The detailed process of making the lantern is shown in the photo.

Step 1. After choosing a pumpkin, cover the table with old newspapers or oilcloth, since carving the fruit is fraught with contamination.

Step 2. On the top of the pumpkin (around the stem), draw a circle or square with a marker to indicate the future hole. Make it large enough so that you can easily remove the pulp by hand or with a large spoon.

Step 3. Armed with a long kitchen knife, cut out the marked “cap”. This process must be performed at a slight angle so that you can cover the pumpkin with the cut off top, like a lid.

Step 4. Using a sharp-edged spoon, scoop out the pulp and seeds. Particularly work on the “front” part of the vegetable. The pulp in this area should be removed and leveled with a spoon until the wall thickness reaches two centimeters.

Step 5. Before making the Halloween pumpkin's face, use a felt-tip pen to draw the outlines of the eyes, nose, and mouth with a sinister smile on the skin. The eyes and nose are drawn in the form of three triangles, and the mouth is drawn in the shape of a crescent with two fangs.

Attention! Make the features of the face large and noticeable, otherwise they will be difficult to cut out.

If you have stocked up on a stencil, attach it to the fruit with tape or glue and transfer the design onto the pumpkin with dotted lines. To do this, you can use either a knife, a needle or a thin awl. After which the template can be removed.

Step 6. Taking a short knife with a thin blade in your hands, carefully draw it along the contour of the design. You need to cut slowly so as not to spoil the future lantern. The cut pieces can be pushed inside the pumpkin, or pry with a knife and pull forward. To ensure that the contours are smooth and clear, do not forget to scrape off the flesh protruding here and there with a knife.

To obtain a clear design, you can use special tools for carving vegetables.

Step 7. Having freed the pumpkin from the cut out pieces, fix the candle in its cavity and cover the fruit with a lid. The main character of Halloween, Jack-O-Lantern, is ready!

• To make the pattern last longer, cover its contours with Vaseline or vegetable oil.
• To keep your jack-o'-lantern fresh, soak it in water for a few hours.
• Make several small holes in the lid of the fruit so that hot air flows out without frying the pumpkin from the inside.
• Before use, place candles in the freezer for 2-3 hours - the lantern will burn longer.
• To ensure that your Jack-O-Lantern not only burns, but also spreads a fragrance into the air, rub the inside of it with crushed cinnamon or nutmeg.

Attention! A cleaned and carved pumpkin will retain its decent appearance only for 3-5 days, so it is necessary to build the lantern on the day or the day before the holiday.

You can admire a variety of pumpkin ideas in the photos presented.

Paper Halloween pumpkin

You can make original crafts for the holiday not only from vegetables, but also from paper. A paper pumpkin is suitable for home decoration and as a souvenir or gift for guests. Let's look at how to make a Halloween pumpkin from colored paper quickly and easily.

To do this you will need the following tools:

• A-4 sheet of orange color;
• green A-4 sheet;
• black A-4 sheet;
• threads with a needle;
• scissors;
• pencil and ruler;
• glue.

Step 1. Using a pencil and ruler, divide an orange sheet of paper into several thin strips, approximately 1.5-2 cm wide and 15-16 cm long. Cut the sheet with scissors. If you want to make your pumpkin unusual, use a tool with a raised edge. For one craft you need 18-20 paper strips.

Every year there are more and more enthusiasts who are ready to put on scary rags for fun and decorate the house for Halloween. If you belong to them, here are some tips on how to decorate your home for the holiday very simply and quickly. In this master class I will show you how to make Halloween decorations with your own hands - 20 options with step-by-step photos on how to decorate your house scary beautifully!

How nice it is to dilute the gray autumn days with a bright, warm and tasty holiday. Even though this holiday came to us from Celtic countries and its roots go far into Western history, this does not prevent residents of other countries from treating it with warmth.

In Russia, the attitude towards Halloween still remains ambiguous. Some people consider it an incomprehensible and uninteresting event, which only young people are interested in, while others are excitedly waiting for it to have fun from the heart!

In any case, you should start preparing for this holiday in advance. In order for the party to turn out in the desired style, you should first of all take care of the decor of the rooms in which it will take place. Unfortunately, there are very few places in Russia where you can buy decent decorations for this holiday.

It is best to order them online, although chain stores often add themed accessories to their assortment before the holiday. But you can do everything yourself. So, let's make our house scary beautiful for Halloween!

The most popular decorations were:

• Pumpkins with cut out eyes
• Webs and spiders
• Ghosts and witches
• The bats
• Walking zombies and mummies
• Brooms, magic wands and other belongings
• Black cats in all forms
• Candles, dry leaves and other attributes of autumn.

A pumpkin walked around the garden... and ended up at a party

The main attribute of Halloween, of course, is the pumpkin, and it has many options to make your wildest fantasies come true: it can be cut out in the shape of a head with a terrifying smile and crooked teeth, dressed up with an elegant hat, painted with paints, wrapped in bright threads or covered with black lace stockings - who cares? that he is capable.

Pumpkins will ripen in the fields in October. And you can bring one such huge fruit into the house, extract all the pulp, cut out the scary face and put a candlestick inside.

In the dark, such a head will look very scary.

Jack-o'-lantern

Now you can make a real work of decorative art from a pumpkin. You can draw intricate shapes and patterns on it, either with paints or with a regular pen, to suit every taste. You can also cut beautiful lines across the entire surface or make fancy-shaped through holes so that the chiaroscuro from the candle creates beautiful patterns.

Pumpkins come in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. Large pumpkins should be placed near the entrance to the house. Smaller ones can be placed in rooms. They can be decorated with beads, sequins, rhinestones (suitable for light pumpkins) or fabric, bows and buttons (for bright orange pumpkins). On the surface you can depict drawings of spiders, cobwebs, bats, etc.

See how quickly and easily you can make a bat out of a pumpkin.

You can also cut out funny faces and scary pictures. Pumpkin can also be used as a flower vase. You can put asters, chrysanthemums and any other autumn flowers in it. Here you can also use rowan brushes and autumn leaves. Small pumpkins can be made into candlesticks. It will look very neat and cozy.

Perhaps because Halloween occurs in the fall, the pumpkin is the centerpiece of the day. This can be a decor item, a costume, or a children's craft. The main thing is to give a terrifying appearance, to scare everyone.

On our website we offer a craft option for young children, since they are the ones who love to sculpt from plasticine. You can make a pumpkin from an orange block, and not just one, but 3 pieces at once. You can also draw wonderful faces with plasticine and a toothpick on a soft surface. And also then make an unusual pyramid design, so to speak, a snowman out of pumpkins.

To create a Halloween decoration from plasticine, prepare:

• orange and black plasticine;
• toothpick

We will make the autumn fruits themselves from orange plasticine. Black will be needed for the eyes, and you can also put a black witch's cloak on the figure.

Divide the orange block of plasticine into 3 portions, but not equal, but gradually reducing the amount of mass in each of them. Mash each piece individually in your hands. Pumpkins will be made from them, they will become a kind of lumps for creating a snowman. The finished faces will need to be collected into a pyramid.

Roll the prepared pieces into balls. Then press down on top of each one with your palm to make the balls more flattened. It’s convenient to press out the veins with a toothpick.

Now turn each prepared part into a muzzle. It will not be just a vegetable, but a kind of specimen that forms one part of a single structure. The first largest pumpkin has a hard time, because it is located at the foot of the pyramid. Give her a nose, a distorted mouth and pits for the eyes.

Also, stick on a patch for decoration to show that the strongman pumpkin has burst more than once and has been sewn up to be repaired.

The second pumpkin is in the middle. It’s hard for her too, but not as much as the previous one. She is surprised and tries to gather her strength. Come up with a facial expression for her.

For decoration, make a black blot on the side.

Now comes the smallest and most cunning pumpkin, which completes the whole structure. She smiles and winks at everyone around her, her cheeks stand out, it’s not hard for her at all, because she doesn’t hold anyone on her.

When your pumpkin fantasy is ready, assemble your snowman. Glue one piece to another to size.

Mash a large amount of black plasticine in your hands, crush it with your fingers, pulling out a rectangular, very thin cake. From the prepared part we will make a long cloak with a cap. On one side, close the corners and smooth the seam with your fingers, pull out the sharp cap.

Glue the cape onto your head, or rather your face. The cap will be placed on the head and go down in the form of a long cape.

This witch is made from scrap materials - a plastic bottle, garbage bags and ribbons. The special thing about this one is that it can be used on Halloween to decorate your garden and yard.

The bat can be placed on any surface, or hung from the ceiling or door frame. The bigger, the better! They can be made from black bags, black tape, fabric and other materials. You can simply buy a toy at the store. You can place a web nearby and place it on a small spider. It is convenient to make a web from gauze or thin woolen threads. Most guests will definitely be impressed.

How to make a Halloween decoration - a bat from corks

These bats are made from cork and black paper.

To bring your finished mice to life, don't forget to glue on the eyes!

Black Cats

Black cats, as an ancient symbol of witchcraft, will be appropriate always and everywhere. These can be stickers, cut-outs, toys, figurines and even drawings.

How to make a black cat from plasticine - master class

You can make such a cat together with your children - they really like modeling from plasticine!

You should definitely think about mummies when you decorate your bathroom, kitchen and toilet. The element of surprise is important here. And since guests usually enter these rooms alone and relax, the effect will be very unexpected. Decorate your zombie costume with red spots, and you can even make a mummy out of toilet paper.

Items related to the magical world can be placed evenly throughout all rooms, giving preference to the hallway and living room. These can be brooms, magic wands, old hats, bowlers, etc. The picture will be perfectly complemented by candles of different colors and shapes, wreaths of dry colorful leaves, as well as red apples and oranges.

An owl is one of the attributes of Halloween; it can also be molded from plasticine.

Feel free to decorate any candlestick!

Burn, burn clearly, so that it doesn’t go out! Candlesticks and candles are no less important objects at a Halloween party than a pumpkin. As a basis, you can take an ordinary candlestick from the IKEA range, and then as your rich imagination will tell you.

You can paint it, wrap it in a white bandage and pour red paint on it for a bloody effect, scrape a pattern of cobwebs onto the wax, stick on blanks in the shape of flies or bats - it’s all very simple!

How could there be no festive table???

Halloween is the perfect holiday for those who break the rules, and this also applies to table decor. Only on Halloween can you find severed fingers or dead spiders among delicious dishes. For those who prefer a more classic style, we recommend using autumn natural decorations: yellowed leaves, rowan trees, chestnuts, hay, etc. Burning candles on the table will add a mystical atmosphere.

This is a master class on how to decorate a table for Halloween.

It doesn't take much time or effort to decorate your home for Halloween. The main thing is a little creativity, a good mood and company. Decorating a house in a terrifying style with a cheerful circle of friends is a good warm-up before a noisy party, isn't it?

There is probably a lot more that can be said about Halloween decorations, but these are the most spectacular and popular of all. Just add some food, music and good company and the party will be a success!

		Holiday colors Red, black, orange
		Flowers Chrysanthemums
		Decor Balloon ghosts, window stickers, artificial fog, cobwebs, stuffed animals
		Attributes Pumpkins, candles, costumes
		Themed entertainment Pumpkin crab, three-legged race, pumpkin hockey, fast donut, steal the pumpkin, spider web, pack the mummy

Heroes of the children's holiday Halloween

PREPARATION FOR HALLOWEEN FOR CHILDREN

1. Children's Halloween invitations

If you decide to host a Halloween themed children's party at your home, try to send out invitations as early as possible. In two, or even three weeks. Firstly, this is necessary so that your guests can think carefully about their costume (after all, a Halloween costume is an extremely important attribute!). Secondly, for you, as the event organizer, knowing the exact number of guests is necessary as the starting point of the entire celebration. The number of children determines what entertainment you offer, in which room you organize the reception, and even how much candy you need to buy for the holiday.

And for an invitation card you can use one of our ideas:

Halloween Invitation "Bat"

To make something similar at home, you will need: colored paper (black), scissors, and reflective (neon) paints.

Invitationon Halloween"Owl"

This version of the invitation card is a little more complicated to make. To make an owl, you will need to prepare three templates: the body with the head, the right wing and the left wing (since the wings of the night bird will be movable). We draw the details of the owl on thick black cardboard. Then we attach the wings to the body using miniature metal nails. We write the text of the invitation with reflective paint (you can even use a real pen, if you know how to use it), pack it in an A6 envelope and send it to your guests.

Invitationon Halloween"Pumpkin"

This version of the invitation card is also not too complicated to make. For the postcard you need: half a sheet of A4 cardboard (orange, yellow), a couple of meters of finishing tape for suits, blouses (also orange, for the mouth and nose of the pumpkin), a piece of bright orange fleece (we will cut it out of it using ordinary scissors pumpkin body). We glue all the parts with regular PVA glue.

Regarding the accompanying text, everything is simple here too: invite the children to listen to scary stories, try sweets, have fun and see the miracles that certainly happen on the eve of All Saints' Day.

A bat, an owl, and a pumpkin are cute, harmless attributes of children's Halloween that can neither cause psychological trauma nor scare. And the philosophy of the holiday of the Spirits in such cards is obvious!

2. Decorations and decor for Halloween at home or at school

Here are some amazing ideas that, if you manage to recreate them fully in practice, will create a unique atmosphere of a children's horror room in your home:

- Artificial fog for Halloween

Twilight, blue haze of fog, burning pumpkin eyes all around... The blood runs cold in the veins!

Artificial fog can be made as follows. Place buckets half filled with water throughout the house. And then add dry ice (there should be enough water in the buckets to cover the dry ice). Proportion: 2 parts water: 1 part ice. If there is warm water in the buckets, create a dense curtain of fog, if cold, create a light, illusory haze.

The only “but”! Dry ice is very dangerous to your health! Place buckets of water so that they are at a safe distance (height) from the place where children play and have fun.

- Tulle ghosts

Remember the charming, sweet, kind ghost Casper - the main character of the cartoon of the same name? And Lizuna from Ghostbusters? You can do such a not at all scary miracle with your own hands!

For “ghosts” you will need: white balloons of different sizes (they need to be inflated with helium), tulle (or a small old sheet), a black marker. Cover the balloon with fabric and draw a cute face with a black marker. The ghost is ready to celebrate Halloween with you!

- DIY window stickers

Like New Year's snowflakes, in the light of the soft fire of candles and street lamps, black cats, bats, pumpkins and spiders will look out of the windows of your house.

They can be made from thick cardboard or felt. To enhance the “frightening” effect, a light source will help, which should be placed near the window so that the Halloween silhouettes can be clearly seen from the street.

- Pumpkins for Halloween

Pumpkin is a mandatory attribute of the night on All Hallows' Eve. Making cute faces and lighting candles inside is a must for everyone who is partial to Halloween.

- Scarecrow for Halloween

A straw effigy with a pumpkin head will become a reliable guardian of your home and yard from the influence of real evil forces, and will bring a lot of positivity to your little guests.

- Halloween table decor

Pumpkin is an excellent decoration for the holiday table. The tablecloth - the basis of the festive setting - can be taken in classic black or orange colors, and then the overall composition can be decorated with cobwebs with spiders, etc. In addition, on this day it is better to serve dishes in black dishes and use black napkins.

When decorating for children's Halloween, it is better to avoid characters with bloody wounds, sharp vampire fangs, etc.

3. Children's Halloween costumes

Costumes should also be chosen without a sharply negative semantic connotation. Cute little witches, or - close to the ethnic understanding of Russians - Koschey the Immortal - exactly what you need!

I'll tell you one little secret. For Halloween, you can revive old New Year's costumes. For example, my daughter was at the New Year's masquerade - Strawberry. Red and green (and these colors are very relevant for the holiday of spirits) were present in her costume. We wore black tights underneath (adding a little darkness wouldn't hurt) and did a festive make-up (in Halloween style - we drew a spider with a web on its cheek). All! Look what a miracle it turned out to be!

But this pumpkin girl is actually a symbol of the entire holiday!

On this day, costumes of chickens, dragons, superheroes, candies, sweets and birds (for the youngest participants of the holiday) will be very relevant!

4. Halloween favors

I recently returned from the States, and there is a tradition there, according to which children in carnival costumes go from house to house, sing songs, tell all sorts of stories, and for this the owners give them a lot of candy, gingerbread and other souvenirs. I remembered our tradition of giving generously on Old New Year. Russian children (especially in the villages) also go from house to house, acting out all sorts of funny scenes.

Here are some interesting ideas for treats and small gifts for children on All Hallows' Eve.

Ghost lollipops

Witch rag dolls

Gingerbread “Pumpkin Smile”

It’s just that the costume itself (which the kids wear with such pride!) is worth thanking for it with something tasty. And if the child also tried to learn and tell something, you should definitely put a gift in his basket!

HALLOWEEN COMPETITIONS AND GAMES

1. Games and entertainment for Halloween

Game 1. Pack the mummy Props: toilet paper and stopwatch. Children are divided into two teams - “mummies” and “priests”. In one minute, the priests must wrap the “mummies” in a shroud. Whoever has the most mummy “body” covered in toilet paper wins!

Game 2. Web Props: a ball of yarn with a surprise hidden inside. The essence of the game: unravel the tangle and get to the surprise. But this must be done so that the thread does not get tangled and does not turn into a cobweb!

Game 3. Steal the pumpkin Props: 15 small pumpkins, timer. From 8 to 15 children can participate in the game. The essence of the game: Before the competition begins, all pumpkins must be placed in the middle of the room. Then - divide the children into 4 teams (start for each team in one of the 4 corners of the room). At the leader’s “march” signal, one participant from each team runs to the middle of the room for pumpkins. When one participant returns, the second runs. When the pumpkins in the middle of the room run out, the fun begins! Participants can go out one at a time from the team and “steal” one pumpkin from their opponent. Whichever team manages to collect the most pumpkins in 5 minutes wins...

Game 4. Smart donut Props: a rope on which gingerbread and donuts are suspended on threads. The essence of the game: Eating a donut for a while without using your hands.

DIY web and spiders

A web with spiders is a simple and effective room decoration for Halloween, especially if you are planning a party with guests and you need to create the appropriate atmosphere.

The most obvious option is to wind woolen threads in the form of a web on the wall, securing them with pushpins. First you need to secure the warp threads (diagonal), and then wind the thread in a circle.

You can attach a spider web thread to a plastic disposable plate, populate it with a cardboard spider and hang it on a chandelier.

The basis for the web can be the crosshairs of any sticks, for example, thin branches or ice cream sticks.

A web can be cut out of paper or oilcloth using the same principle as a snowflake for the New Year.

You can either buy ready-made spiders for Halloween as a decoration on a web or as an independent decoration, or you can make a craft with your own hands. It could be just a figure cut out of cardboard or a three-dimensional version.

These cute spiders can be made from the same plastic plates. The materials you will need are chenille (fluffy handmade wire) and eyes for toys of different sizes.

But such a not only funny, but also tasty spider can be made from lollipop and chenille:

A more complex design is the glamorous spider made from a decorative mesh shaped like a bubo.

You can make this cute spider with your own hands from two foam balls of different sizes.

And another version of a spider made from a ball, this time wrapped in acrylic thread.

A very simple to create, but impressive looking spider - made from a black ball with paper legs. It may well frighten a guest who enters the room!

Halloween crafts from toilet paper rolls

Rolls (tubes) remaining after using toilet paper are an excellent material for children's creativity. From it you can make figures of any animals and birds, and for Halloween - monsters, mummies and bats.

To create such mummies, you don’t need anything other than toilet paper and eyes. Wrap the roll with paper in any order, glue on the eyes - the mummy is ready!

As for creating monsters, here you can fully express your imagination.

The same applies to making witches, ghosts and bats - no instructions are needed to make them.

Well, if you don’t have any extra rolls lying around at home or there isn’t enough material to fulfill all your fantasies, use empty juice boxes as an alternative.

Candlesticks

An original decoration for your Halloween room will be a craft in the form of a candlestick. Making it is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.

Take a glass container (jar) and stick thematic figures cut out of paper (witch, bat, pumpkin, spider, cobweb, etc.) on the outside. Place a candle at the bottom of the jar, light it - the lamp will effectively light up.

The design can be applied with a marker, and the container can be painted in any color - then the lamps will sparkle in different shades and will look monstrously magnificent in a dark room. Boooo!

You can wrap the jar in gauze and glue on the eyes - you’ll get a mummy lamp.

Wrap the jars with thread and plant spiders on them - again we return to the theme of the web.

Fairy lights

A holiday craft option that offers unlimited scope for imagination. After all, you can hang anything on a garland!

Paper ghosts.

Skeletons, black cats and bats.

Skulls and ghosts made from felt.

Faces of monsters and witches.

Balls made from threads in the shape of “sugar loaves”.

Paper pumpkins.

Ghosts made of threads.

Or made of fabric.

Halloween wreath

A wreath on a door or wall is a very popular home decoration. Nowadays such wreaths are made for many holidays - and Halloween is no exception. As a blank, you can use a circle made of cardboard, plywood or a foam circle - they are sold in handicraft stores.

You can make such funny monsters if you tie a lot of tulle strips tightly in knots on the workpiece.