Homemade, Inexpensive Halloween Decorations

Decorate for Halloween the Inexpensive Way!

If you are a Halloween person, then decorating your house is a project you look forward to. But these days, when prices are high and budgets are tight, buying the decorations is often not an option. You've made a homemade costume but now, how do you decorate?

You create and design your own! It isn't hard, and very inexpensive so why not dress up your house to the scariest or "autumn-ist" as you like!

Here are 8 craft projects that you can make and create to fit your Halloween house decor.

1. Make your own Pumpkins! This is so cute and what a way to "hide" what you need and use what you have for decoration! What you'll need: Your extra rolls of toilet paper, orange tissue paper, brown paper, green paper and pipe cleaners. Take 2-3 sheets of the tissue paper and keep them layed together. Set your roll of toilet paper in the center. Gently, pull the sides of the tissue paper up to the top of the toilet paper roll and gently again, stuff the ends of the tissue paper INSIDE the toilet paper roll. Doing one side at a time seems to work best. Just look at what you are doing and make sure all the "pleats or folds" of the paper are either in a straight line/fold or slightly angled to show the indents on a real pumpkin.

To make the stem, use brown cardstock and cut to the length of stem you want and then roll the paper up. Crinkle it some, twist it to make it resemble the shape of a stem. Bend it a little and then insert it into the roll of the toilet paper. To make the stem, using green cardstock, cut out in shape of a leaf and glue pipecleaner onto the back side of the leaf. Once completely dried, gently bend the leaf around and insert it into the toilet paper roll. Voila! Instant pumpkins! Make a dozen! When Halloween is over, unwrap your pumpkins and use them!