Twenty exceptional haunted house concepts for Halloween, guaranteed to send shivers down your spine
Transform your home into a haunted house this Halloween with these easy and creative DIY decorations. From ghosts to glitter skulls, these ideas will take your celebrations up a notch.
Ghostly Presence
Give your haunted house a chilling atmosphere with these whimsical ghosts. Using muslin or tissue fabric draped and glued in pleats, you can form ghost shapes and add painted or glued eyes for character. Hanging these ghosts allows gravity to shape them realistically. For a personalized touch, consider adding pocket ghosts attached inside doorframes or thematic ear shapes like Mickey ears cut from colored felt [1][2].
Haunted Houses
Create a small whimsical haunted house using inexpensive materials like foam, fabric, and paint for a vintage or rustic style. Incorporate miniature lanterns by attaching loops of cord or twine for a holding effect [1][2][3].
Simple Props for Ambiance
Add a spooky effect to your haunted house with a cauldron combined with an essential oil diffuser, creating smoke or scent. Lanterns with fake candles or LED lights can add eerie lighting, while skeleton decorations and skull string art add a contemporary creepy vibe to any room [1][2][4].
Customization
These ideas blend crafting with household materials and basic tools like hot glue guns, fabric, and simple paints to create eerie but charming Halloween décor. Customize these decorations to your taste and themed haunted house style.
Additional Ideas
- Climbing skeletons can make a dramatic display outside your haunted house [21].
- A black and white Halloween mantel can be created using a tutorial from notjustahousewife.net [20].
- Glow in the dark Halloween decorations can be made using a UV bar from entertainingdiva.com [23].
- Cheesecloth ghosts are an easy and popular DIY Halloween decoration [5].
- Halloween wreaths can be made in various styles, such as black feather wreaths or spider web wreaths made using twine [7].
- A pet ghost decoration can be made using a tutorial from Relatable Kate [19].
- A bat-filled haunted house decoration can be achieved by using spider webs, suspended bats, and clever lighting [11].
- DIY ghost lights can be made using Christmas lights from Say Yes [15].
- Decorate the house with cobwebs, pumpkin displays, and boarded-up windows [12].
- Ghost mirrors can be made using old pictures or newspaper photos from nobiggie.net [18].
- Dead body props can be made using materials found in your home [13].
- A DIY Halloween mummy can be created using a tutorial from Wicked Makers [24].
- Bloody handprint window clings can be made as a DIY decoration [25].
- Crystal ball candlesticks can give your haunted house a witch's lair feel from flamingtoes.com [22].
- Specimen jars can be made using jars, food coloring, and scary plastic toys [10].
- A bat mantel can be made using a free printable bat template [9].
Unique and Elegant Touches
- Glitter skulls can add some bling to any room this October [26].
- Floating candles can resemble the levitating candles in Hogwarts' Great Hall using cardboard tubes, glue, LED candles, and fishing wire [27].
- An illuminated haunted house decoration can be made using black card, a block of wood, and tealights or LED candles [28].
- Mason jar luminaries can add a gothic feel to your haunted house from justagirlandherblog.com [17].
Get Creative This Halloween
With these DIY Halloween decoration ideas, you can create a haunted house that is both eerie and charming. Get creative, customize your decorations, and have a spooktacular Halloween!
