Homemade Halloween Decorations!

This Halloween was the first one I've really felt like I could decorate! I have a family, I'm an adult, and we live in a place big enough for me to do this kind of thing! 

I didn't want to spend a lot of money on decorations, so I hit Pinterest for some easy, fun ideas! For what I wanted to do, I had to get started early...

My main decorations were using wine and gin bottles that I spray painted and then decorated by hand, so I needed to spray paint them in the summer, while it was still warm enough to! So I did this first step in September. I chose what I wanted to make with the bottles I had, and then spray painted them.

These are all the bottles, for both Halloween and Christmas decorations.

After that, I had a bit of leeway to gather my supplies and paint/decorate them in my own time. The results were better than I could have hoped!

This one was probably one of my favourites, just because it was so simple! Spray painting it was a two step project: first, I sprayed it gold and then once it had dried, Adrian helped me wrap rubber bands around it and I sprayed it a matte black.

Then, all I did was add on a couple googly eyes, and BAM! Instant mummy!

This ghost was so simple too. I found some clear stickers to put on glasses at the dollar store and cut out some eyes and a mouth that I liked, stuck it on, and then painted over the edged to help them stick and blend into the bottle, and it was done!

My three Tanqueray bottles became a monster family, complete with googly eyes and pipe cleaner hair! The dad's hair is curly, just like Adrian's! haha these ones I was most proud of! I think they turned out really well, and mouths are fun, and again, they were so so simple!

Since the bottles turned out so well, I got craft-crazy and wanted to do so much more. My next, simple project was to draw and cut out silhouettes from construction paper to tape into the inside of our lamp shades. Nice and easy!

The wreath was the only thing I really spent money on, and I still only bought a few clearance items at Michael's to piece together. A little hot glue, and bam!

Another thing I made was glow in the dark ghosts to hang outside. For these, I bought Styrofoam balls and cheese cloth at the dollar store. I used wire I found in our tool box to make the arms and then I dipped the cheese cloth in a mixture of mod podge and glow in the dark paint and draped it over the Styrofoam balls, which I perched on old bottles so they could dry off the table. Again, the result was awesome and they looked great swaying in the wind in our front yard!

The last thing I did was a last minute spur of the moment thing after I found this craft pumpkin at Value Village. It was pretty ugly, so I painted it orange and then made the lettering out of pipe cleaners and hot glued them on. Adrian even helped with this one, obviously bored one night, and made the exclamation mark!

This project was so much fun for me to do. It gave me a creative outlet while Jaxson napped, and kept me busy for a couple of weeks! 

So much fun on a budget, and so easy!