13 Days of Halloween!

I wanted to include all 13 posts from Instagram in one blog post. There’s a few more than 13 here since I started posting daily for the “13 Days of Halloween”

This will be hard to beat next year. Not sure I will even attempt it but it was fun coming up with new ideas daily 🙂

Witch’s Broom: This cost $0! I got the idea while we were doing some fall clean up in the yard. All you need is a fairly straight stick that’s thick enough to be the base. The rest of the sticks are just small twigs. Bundle them together with floral wire then hot glue jute rope around the wire. That’s it!

2. Haunted Village: So easy and affordable! I love this DIY… it creates the perfect Halloween scene without being too scary for little kids.

I purchased 4 Christmas village houses and mini skulls from the Dollar Tree and painted them all black with acrylic craft paint.

On the mantle I used left over branches that were painted black from the DIY Halloween Wreath. Placed some faux fall leaves from a craft store and laid some LED battery lights across the branches.

3. DIY Halloween Door Mat: Quick, affordable and so cute! I used the Cricut for this project.

Start with a plain outdoor door mat. I used this one from Walmart it was only $6.

Cut out the letters and bats and use the vinyl as a stencil. Apply black acrylic craft paint and that’s it!

If you don’t have one you can purchase the cutout letters from the craft section of any store (I’ve seen them at the Dollar Tree, Walmart, Michaels..) You can also make make a bat stencil free hand with paper and scissors.

4. DIY Treat Buckets: $3 pumpkin treat buckets from the grocery store that I personalized using the Cricut.

5. Boo Bucket: “You’ve Been Booed!” gift bucket is simple you can fill it with specific items for the person you’re “Boo-ing” I personalized this one using the Cricut and filled it with candy, pumpkin carving tools, koozie, mini pumpkin, shirt, eyeball ping pong balls

6. Haunted Playhouse: This idea doesn’t cost any money just use what you already have! Add in kids’ items to make it theirs.

7. Tiered Tray Decorate: Tiered trays are very popular and there are A LOT of good ideas on Pinterest. Sticking to a theme plus adding in a variety of textures and colors while keeping it balanced is what makes a good tiered tray. It must also look good from all sides! I went with a classic black and orange Halloween theme.

This was my inspiration:

Here’s what I came up with:

8. Skeleton Makeup: I used Snazaroo white face paint, black & brown eyeshadows by Urban Decay, the Quickliner by Clinique in the color 09 intense ebony.