By: Ashley Diaz
It’s Halloween season, so here are a few fun ways to make your home look scary. They are easy and work on a budget. Have fun with them alone or with friends.
Handmade floating candles
If you want a cheap and easy way to decorate your house for Halloween just make floating candles. These candles are based off the levitating candles that fill the grand ceiling of Hogwarts from the “Harry Potter” series.
Supplies
- Empty toilet paper or paper towel rolls
- Hot glue gun
- White paint
- Fishing line
- Needles or push pin
- Small battery powered tealights
- Scissors
- Thumbtacks
Instructions
- Get an empty toilet paper roll and use your glue gun to create drips from the top down to look like candle wax.
- Once the glue dries, paint the whole tube with white acrylic paint to create the illusion of a waxed candle.
- When the paint dries, insert your fishing line into the needle. Get the tube and make four holes from a quarter or a half inch at the top. The holes you create at the top of the tube should be made on either side.
- Use the fishing line to hang the candle and hold the tealight.
If you want the candles to look like they’re straight from the “Harry Potter” movies, hang the candles at different lengths. It’s easy and so much fun to do.
Melted crayon pumpkins
This DIY idea is not at all scary, but it is colorful and beautiful, and if you do want it to be scarier, only use red crayons.
Supplies
- Large white pumpkin (real or fake)
- Glue
- Crayons
- Table cloth or newspaper as surface cover
Instructions
- Take off the paper labels of the crayons before placing and melting them onto the pumpkin.
- Break the crayon in half.
- Set up the surface cover to be able to melt the crayons without making a mess on your kitchen table.
- Glue the crayons around the stem of the pumpkin.
- Once the glue has dried and the crayons have been placed, get the hairdryer and apply heat to the crayons on the highest setting. It will take one to 30 minutes to melt each crayon.
- Wait for the melted crayons to dry.
Eyeball flowers
Want your house to look nice but also creepy at the same time? Then you should make an eyeball flower bouquet. To make this weird creation, you follow the instructions below.
Supplies
- Plastic eyeballs
- Wiggly eyes
- Artificial flowers (Any kind of fake flower will work, but for a creepy aesthetic, use dark red roses.)
- A vase
- Small rocks or glass marbles
Instructions
- Hot glue gun your flowers and select your eyeballs.
- Place a dab of hot glue in the middle of the flower, and then put the eye into the flower before the glue dries.
- Once you have made enough eyeball flowers, grab your vase and fill it with small rocks or marbles to hold down your creepy bouquet.
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