11 Spooky House Decoration Tricks for Halloween

Just a few weeks to Halloween. Gone are the days that you just spray cobwebs on your windows as Halloween decoration. These days call for spookier decorations to stand out among your neighbors.

If you’re still scratching your head on how to decorate the house this Halloween, here are 11 decorating tricks you can get your hands on:

1. Deadman’s Doorbell
Imagine the shock on your visitor’s face when they see a finger pressing your doorbell. This decoration is easy yet scary. Head over to your neighborhood toy store and buy a bag of squishy body parts. Squeeze some glue or use a double-sided tape to attach the finger to your doorbell.

2. Hanging Branch Centerpiece
Serve your Halloween dinner with a decorated dead branch as a centerpiece. Go out to your garden and gather fallen tree branches. You can use garden shears to have branches of different heights. Coat them with matte black spray paint and accessorize with plastic spiders or bats. You can even place mini hanging lanterns or pumpkins.

3. Apple Shrunken Heads
Shrunken heads are creepy anytime of the year. Bring out the creepiness in your house by making shrunken heads out of apples. Soak the apples in a mixture of half a cup of salt and half a cup of lemon juice in half gallon of water. Shape the apples into creepy-looking faces before placing them in the oven to quickly dry. You can choose to naturally dry the apples, but it will take you at least a week.

4. Snake Wreath
Wreaths are not just for Christmas. Adorn your front door with a wooden wreath painted matte black with black plastic snakes glued to it. Make sure to paint the plastic snakes matte black too, just to make them a bit more scary-looking. This will send the right message to any visitor during Halloween.

5. Bloody Curtains and Windows
Remember those childhood moments when you cover your hands with paint? Halloween is the perfect time to relive those moments by painting your hands bloody red. Place red handprints on shower curtains, windows and even your white tablecloths.

6. Head in a Jar
If you have friends coming over during Halloween, then stock up on heads in a jar for your fridge. Find a glass bottle, like a pickle jar, and then print your face in cardstock or heavy paper. Place the photo in the jar to be stored in your fridge ready to scare unsuspecting friends and family. You can use photo-editing software to add some zombie texture to your face or just download zombie faces for printing.

7. Skeletons in a Wheelbarrow
Time to bring out that wheelbarrow and pile on dead leaves. You can purchase bones or skeletons in your nearby toy store, and then place them in the wheelbarrow together with some leaves and soil. This sends out a message to your neighbors not to dig up dirt on you. For some extra touch, add worms to the mix.

8. Floating Head Ghosts
Perfect for that large tree in your yard or your beautiful porch are hanging floating heads. Find some foam heads in your craft store and a couple of meters of cheesecloth. Remove the neck of the heads and then attach the cheesecloth. Add an eyelet on top so you can hang it on branches or at the porch. For an ultimate night scare, coat your heads with glow in the dark paint.

9. Doll Head Collection
If you have a daughter, you have everything you need for this one. Find your daughter’s old dolls, get their heads and place ‘em in a jar. Line the jars in your staircase or on top of your television to get your guests’ hearts pumping. Try to place the heads in different jars to come close to a museum exhibit.

10. Bloody Candles
Look for white and red candles to create a creepy candle-lit dinner. Melt the red candles directly on top of the white candles to appear like blood. This decoration is perfect both indoors and outdoors. You can melt old red wax crayons if you don’t have any red candles stored.

11. Pots and Hands
Your garden pots will come alive during Halloween by placing plastic hands coming out from the soil. You can coat the hands with glow in the dark paint for a creepier effect during nighttime. You can also add some bones poking out of the soil.

Halloween is the best time to be creative in transforming your place to a haunted house to welcome trick-or-treaters. Let your imagination run wild.