Crafts for Halloween with their own hands: decorating the interior and festive table

Halloween is a traditional European and American holiday with ancient Celtic roots. Today it is celebrated by many Russians. After all, this is an excellent opportunity to diversify their everyday lives and take part in something mysterious, mystical and always cheerful. A variety of crafts for Halloween to decorate the interior can be done with your own hands from improvised materials. Especially for you - a selection of the best and most simple ideas for thematic creativity.

Holiday Symbols

The traditional colors of Halloween are black and the whole yellow-orange scale. You can also use red shades, you can not do without white elements. The main characters of the holiday: Jack's pumpkin, ghosts, bats and spiders. Do not forget also about witches and sorcerers, skeletons and black cats. As ideas for inspiration, you can use all the mystical and gloomy. However, remember: crafts for Halloween do not have to look ominous. Even ghosts and skeletons can be nice and friendly. Focus on your own taste, use images from animation and good films. It is interesting to note the eve of All Saints Day will be for children. If your family has kids, when making home decor and table decorations, avoid too terrible and negative images.

Cut the Pumpkin

One of the main symbols of Halloween is Jack's lantern. It's a hollow pumpkin with a face carved into it and a candle inside. Everyone can make this craft. First you need to take a fresh pumpkin and gently cut the top part so that later it is easily put in place. After that, using a knife and a spoon, you need to remove the flesh. The inside of the pumpkin can be used to make any dishes. Try to scrape the walls of the vegetable well - this makes the finished lantern longer. Once the pumpkin is cleared of the pulp, you can proceed to the most interesting part of the process. Make a stencil or draw a face directly on the vegetable, then cut it out into the contours with a sharp knife. Crafts from a pumpkin to Halloween can be decorated not only in the form of a traditional lantern Jack, but also have a different figure. Sometimes these vegetables are cut out whole mystical pictures or just bats, or even decorative silhouettes. A small candle is placed in the finished pumpkin and the lid is closed.

The bats

Some of the main characters of Halloween are bats. The easiest way to make them is from black cardboard. Prepare templates of different sizes and cut out the necessary number of figures. The most effective mice look on a light background, but if the walls in your house are dark, try to hang draperies of gauze or transparent mesh. Figures can be hung on vertical surfaces using double-sided adhesive tape. It is possible to make of them and suspension brackets, having fixed with the help of a fishing line. No less interesting will be a garland of bats. To do this, fasten the figures with ribbons or strips of paper. And how do you like this tree?

Adjustments

Doing crafts for Halloween with their own hands, do not ignore the images of spirits and otherworldly essences. Try to make a cast. The most interesting are the voluminous translucent figures from gauze. Begin by making a frame - take a suitable bottle, make a hand from the wire, mark the head, fixing the ball on the neck. Gauze soak in a solution of starch or glue PVA and carefully distribute the base, then leave until completely dry. Such crafts for Halloween can make even a child. The dried gauze should harden and keep the shape. A similar figure can be done by covering the frame with an opaque white cloth and silently fixing it with pins. Ready to bring, you need to draw or glue eyes and mouth.

Simple crafts for Halloween with your own hands

What decorations and decorative items for the house can be done for the holiday with the children? Try decorating decorative cups or pots. Take suitable containers and glue them with colored paper, making them in the technique of application or painting thematic drawings. You can just wrap a glass of bandage, and then make eyes and mouth - and you will have a nice mummy. In large pots, put flowers in pots, and in small folded candy. From ordinary glass jars you can make original candlesticks. Cut out some color from colored paper, for example, the silhouettes of bats or the outline of an ancient castle. Glue the workpiece on the jar, additionally decorate with lace, net, if desired, use beads and pendants.

Interior decoration

How to make crafts for Halloween for interior decoration? Connect all your imagination. Stylish decoration of any room will become a web. Weave it from tight threads and fasten it to the wall using an adhesive tape or buttons. An alternative option is to soak gauze in a solution of dark gouache with water, crumble and dry, then spread, tear in some places and hang on walls and ceiling. For the decoration of the room, you can use many of the Halloween handicrafts described in this article. A good idea is also to print some thematic pictures and posters and hang them on the walls.

Design of the table

What kind of Halloween without a festive party and themed feast? Do not be too lazy to devote time and decorating the table. Placer cut out of cardboard or colored paper of pumpkins and bats will transform any tablecloth. You will receive invitations and guest cards in thematic style. Make hats of witches for dessert spoons. They can be done by gluing a circle and a cone of paper. Try to make all the crafts for Halloween, photos of which are in our article. Do not be afraid to experiment and rework this or that idea.