DIY Halloween Decor

I’m so thrilled to announce that I’ve part­nered with Lowe’s and am now an offi­cial Lowe’s Cre­ative Ideas “Cre­ator & Influ­encer”! As part of this blog ambas­sador­ship, I’ll be shar­ing some cool project ideas and have a few great give­aways for YOU! :)

So, with Hal­loween right around the cor­ner, we’re kick­ing things off with two easy and inex­pen­sive DIY Hal­loween decor ideas (with mate­ri­als from Lowe’s, of course)! To start off, I checked out the Lowe’s Cre­ative Ideas site to see what fun Hal­loween ideas were posted there! A few things caught my eye right away! In keep­ing with the spi­der theme we sort of have going on, I loved the giant spi­der web here and the giant light up spi­der! (And, we ended up buy­ing that giant light up spi­der on our trip to Lowe’s!)But then, I saw this giant spi­der web idea (which reminded be of the train tracks from the boys’ birth­day party) made with friction/electrical tape! So cool! So, we had to pick up a big pack­age of the tape at Lowe’s. Now, we just need to fig­ure out where to put it for our party this week­end! I was lov­ing all these cre­ative ideas and so we headed off to Lowe’s to pick up some sup­plies for our own Hal­loween DIY decor ideas!

DIY Spooky Hal­loween Tree

Our spooky Hal­loween tree project was actu­ally inspired by a lit­tle week­end yard work. We were cut­ting down some branches from a tree and they just had that per­fect “spooky” look about them–perfect for a Hal­loween tree. Even Big Brother thought so! It was such an easy project with few supplies!

Sup­plies:

- 5 gal­lon bucket

- black trash bag

- var­i­ous sized branches

- 2–3 cans Rust-Oleum Black Metal­lic spray paint

- rock, flo­ral foam, or some­thing to weigh down the branches

- spi­der web­bing & plas­tic spi­ders (or other Hal­loween decor of your choice)

Direc­tions:
– After gath­er­ing up your sup­plies, lay down a tarp or lots of news­pa­per & spray paint the branches. We had to do this two sessions–front and then back of the branches.

- Place the bucket inside the black trash bag. Fold the top of the trash bag down into the bucket–use a lit­tle tape to secure. Also, tape down the cor­ners of the trash bag to the under­neath side of the bucket.

- Fill bucket with rock or other mate­ri­als to hold the branches in place.

- Arrange branches into the bucket.

- Once the branches are arranged how you like, dec­o­rate with spi­der web­bing, spi­ders, or any other Hal­loween items you’d like!

DIY Spooky Spi­der Wreath

The spi­der wreath is even eas­ier and cheaper than the spooky tree! And, it’s a quick project too! You’ll have NO prob­lem get­ting this done before Halloween!

Mate­ri­als

- 1 6-ft. tube of pipe insu­la­tion (less than $1.50 at my Lowe’s!!)

- X-ACTO knife

- duct tape & fric­tion tape

- spi­der webbing

- plas­tic spiders

- rib­bon

Direc­tions

- First up, make your wreath form. You’ll start by cut­ting the pipe insu­la­tion just under the half way point.

- Con­nect the ends with duct tape. Then, cover the duct tape with fric­tion tape. (Fric­tion tape is sim­i­lar to elec­tri­cal tape, but nor­mally used for hockey sticks, base­ball bats, etc. and has a slightly sticky feel to it.)

- Wrap the wreath form with spi­der webbing–making sure to bring some across the open cir­cle. Lit­tle pieces of fric­tion tape and/or straight pins, will help hold the web­bing in place.
- Once you have the web­bing the way you like, cut any remain­ing web­bing off, dec­o­rate with spi­ders, and add a rib­bon to the top. Then, you have your own spooky spi­der wreath!

Fun, huh?!

Now, how would you like to do a lit­tle Lowe’s shop­ping for your own DIY projects?!

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1. Just leave a com­ment telling me what DIY projects you’ve done for Hal­loween or what DIY projects you’re want­ing to do in the next cou­ple of months!

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Give­away will end on Octo­ber 31st, 2011 at 10pm PST. Win­ner with a valid entry will be selected at ran­dom using random.org and be noti­fied via email (win­ner will also be posted on this post). They will have 24 hours to claim their prize.

 

Dis­clo­sure:  I am a mem­ber of the Lowe’s Cre­ative Ideas Cre­ators & Influ­encers Net­work and I received Lowe’s gift cards to com­plete my projects. As always, all opin­ions and expe­ri­ences are my own.

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  1. 1
    Jl Johnson says:

    My DIY endeavor is to cre­ate a pump­kin totem in my yard
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    Jl Johnson says:

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    Lauren says:

    My kids and I will be mak­ing the Spooky wreath.

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    Laura says:

    Love these Sara!! I want to make the wreath!!! Sooooo easy!!!

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    Kristie says:

    I’ve been try­ing to find the time to make a ply­wood cutout of a witch sil­hou­ette for the front yard. Love the spi­der wreath. May do that too!

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    Carol Dee says:

    OMG.… I just found your blog !!! I love it. So many great ideas. My boys are 28 and 31 (much too old to enjoy this.) But, I now have two Grand­sons, soon to be 1 and 4. We are going to have so much FUN *big grin* Thanks and hugs…

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    Whitney says:

    We made some really cute spi­der webs and a few other good­ies sprayed with chalk­board paint from Lowes, of course!

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    Whitney says:

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    Whitney says:

    I like Lowes Cre­ative Ideas on FB, too! Thanks for the giveaway!

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    tess says:

    how easy is that– black branches– i want to make that and we also need to add a porch on to our back­yard
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    Jackie says:

    We made Hal­loween themed votives, bat gar­land & spi­ders.
    One of my next projects is to repaint an old frame for a more updated look.

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    I would make a spooky Hal­loween wreath and a spooky tree and hang plas­tic skulls on it.

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    Con­grat­u­la­tions on your part­ner­ship with Lowes! How fun! LOVE these projects (I’m sure your boys do too!) Can’t wait to see what else you come up with.

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    amy e says:

    I would like to put up some out­door lights and make a spooky tree.

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    Aubrey says:

    I have made some cute Hal­loween wreaths!
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    Cayla says:

    I’ve made some mumkins for my front porch and look for­ward to mak­ing home­made Christ­mas orna­ments in a few weeks!

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    Barbara says:

    So mak­ing the spder wreath. Was won­der­ing what to do with the extra web­bing. Always have too much after Hal­loween. What a great way to use up the left­overs. :0)

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    Barbara says:

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    Melissa Folse says:

    We dec­o­rated out in the yard.I want to make a new scary wreath.

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    Melissa Folse says:

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    Melissa Folse says:

    I am a fan of Lowe’s cre­ative ideas and LOVE it!!!

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    Sarah says:

    Today I bought a foam pump­kin and poked holes in it to hold suck­ers for the trick-or-treaters. It’s so cute!

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    kristine says:

    I am a fb fan of lowes cre­ative ideas!

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    Gizelle Beverland says:

    I love the idea of the spooky tree but I have an idea. leave the branches a nat­ural cover and then when the hal­loween sea­son is over. you can take the web­bing off, spray them with that canned snow and add a white bag to the bucket, and cheap pre made bows or other orna­ments for a winder/Christmas look.

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    heather vazquez says:

    My kids and I love to make our own dec­o­ra­tions. We did the spooky tree last year, and can’t wait to make the spooky spi­der wreath tomor­row. We also made skele­tons out of plas­tic gal­lon milk jugs.

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    Dana says:

    i made pump­kin win­dows. Black face with orange table­cloth behind and lights on. From the road, looks like big glow­ing pump­kins in our win­dows at night.

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    Lizette Zamora says:

    Great crafts! I just “LIKE” you on FB. Want to share my idea of mak­ing a spi­der web using the elec­tri­cal tape. I make a web on the win­dow and add spi­ders out of black scrap­book paper. The effects it has at night when you have your indoor lights on is great.

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    I painted mason jars with frosted paint and black paint for the eyes to look like ghosts-on Hal­loween I will add glow sticks!

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    I just made a cup­cake stand for a foot­ball party.… will link it up on your foot­ball post soon!! :-)

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    I tweeted the give­away!! BTW Con­grats on the part­ner­ship this is awesome!!!

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    I loved your projects! I really want to do the spi­der web wreath. It looks really cool. I want to do painted pump­kins and some­thing that looks like candy corn!

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    Joanna M. says:

    I don’t have any spooky DIYs for Hal­loween, but I am look­ing for­ward to paint­ing my soon-to-be new home. I’m think­ing a painted “wall­pa­per” for my mas­ter bed­room and refin­ish­ing my bed­room fur­ni­ture. :)

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    This year most of my DIY projects involved my printer. I made sev­eral “potion bot­tles” and “spell books” to dec­o­rate at our cos­tume party.

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    I’d love to try your spooky tree. That’s really cool!

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    I am doing a major front porch project with pine cones and branches. I love dec­o­rat­ing with lights too.

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    diane says:

    I haven’t done any DIY projects for Hal­loween but I am deter­mined that the new year will see a freshly painted and newly floored laun­dry room!

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    Naomi says:

    Okay, we are totally doing the tree project! Love that!!! So far, we’ve made some paper bag jack o’ lanterns. We haven’t carved the real ones yet since it’s been warm and we wanted them to last at least until Halloween!

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    Trish says:

    I love the totem idea men­tioned ear­lier! I am going to try a few of these espe­cially the wreath!

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    Ann S. says:

    I used a ton of Dol­lar Store dec­o­ra­tions to make my own. I got a pump­kin bas­ket there and added pinecones and mini-pumpkins to it to make a cen­ter­piece. We used cut-outs and stream­ers to hang them on our walls. We hung white trash bags made to look like ghosts in our trees. Fun, fun! Thanks!

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    steff says:

    i made glit­ter pumpkins!

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    Kimberly says:

    We made spi­der webs with spi­ders, and spi­der hands. I’m going to have to try the wreath –super cute and spooky!

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    Kimberly says:

    Oh, and I love the pump­kin totem idea too! That sounds so cool!

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    Linda Southward says:

    I love the idea of using a stick of pipe tub­ing!!! In fact I just fin­ished a wreath I made for a friend using it!!! So much bet­ter than pay­ing $5 at a craft sup­ply store for a 10″ wreath!!! Plus, who doesn’t love Lowe’s?!? come on now!!!

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    Anna Pry says:

    i’m going to make my own pump­kin pie fill­ing from scratch
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    Amylynn H says:

    We are start­ing a DIY project in the laun­dry room today! This card would be such a help with it. We are tak­ing a wall down and extend­ing the area so that we are not forced to use stack­able washer and dry­ers any­more. We hope to put shelv­ing across the back for stor­age.
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    Julie L says:

    I am start­ing to make my
    Christ­mas cards early this year
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    Julie L says:

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    Kathy Moore says:

    Love the wreath. Def­i­nitely going to use pipe insu­la­tion for a Christ­mas wreath.

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    Thank you very much, I am super excited to have won!

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    Carly says:

    My DIY Hal­loween project is carv­ing pump­kins, LOL!

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    Jill says:

    Great idea, love the spi­ders wreath, my son will think this is awesome!

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