Devilish DIY - how to make your own Halloween decorations

Spooky season has arrived! But while everyone else is hanging up the usual plastic skeletons and pumpkin bunting, you can make your home the best-dressed in the neighbourhood with these FANG-tastic DIY decs!

1. SPOOK-tacular spider webs... made from household bin bags!

Get crafty with your very own simple but impressive DIY spider webs.

All you need is a humble rubbish bag, along with some scissors, tape and a marker pen.

✂️ Check out how to create your own with this handy GIF.

No Halloween scene is complete with out some creepy crawlies making their presence felt, so team up your homemade spider webs with this two-metre Cobweb Garland with Hanging Spiders!

2. Halloween cake toppers

Add some scares to your sweet treats with our charming printable Halloween cake toppers.

You'll need scissors, lollipop sticks (or cocktail sticks will work just fine), double-sided tape or glue and a printer.

(You'll need crayons, too, if you’re printing our colour-in versions!)

Click here to download your free printables.

Having made your cakes look BOO-tiful, why not spook-up the rest of your buffet table by adding some fancy gold-foiled food picks?

3. Spider paper chains

We’ve got even more spider decoration inspo, and this one is for a simple, low cost decoration that kids will love making.

These easy-to-make spider web paper chains are the perfect banner to string along walls, stairs or ceiling this Halloween.

📺 Watch this video to help you make your own!

Then, hang your homemade paper chain alongside some of our own ready-made Halloween garlands and hanging decorations.

4. BOO-tiful balloon arch

Balloon arches are on-trend and add the wow factor to any event.

Make your own this Halloween with our easy-to-assemble Halloween Balloon Arch Kit

In the pack, you'll get a variety of coloured balloons. Putting it together will be a great laugh and it will look amazing once it’s done. 

But why stop at one arch? Keep the Halloween balloons coming!

Party Pieces has confetti balloons, balloon garlands, foil spiders, pumpkins, ghosts, witches and plenty more in store. Don’t forget your helium, so your balloons float!

5. Freaky photo booth

Capture the moment as you make Halloween memories that will last a lifetime, by creating a FANG-tastic photo zone at your party!

Use simple black and orange streamers for only £4.99 to create a Halloween backdrop, adding some BOO-lloon bunting (£5.99) and honeycomb character decorations (£5.99) to take it to the next level!

Top it all off with some props - from circus characters to sci-fi or jungle themes!

From all of us at Party Pieces, we hope you have a super spooky Halloween celebration.

Let the GHOUL times roll!

By Ben Shahrabi

Featured image credit: Benzoix on Freepik

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