These frighteningly festive DIY Halloween decorations are really easy and fun to make with your kids. Create ghosts, pumpkins, vampires and other classic Halloween figures, with the help of balloons, paper and marker pens. Our editor Ida shows you exactly what to do.
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Nothing screams Halloween like a jack-o’-lantern! Make a ghoulish garland of pumpkin balloons by cutting out eyes and mouths from black paper, which you then superglue on to orange balloons. Tie the balloons to a ribbon and hang them up.
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Cut out bat wings and cat ears from black paper, and use sticky tape to attach them to black balloons. I’ve attached the paper details by folding down approx. one centimetre at the bottom and taping them along this edge. You can add other fun details too: a cat nose or glittering bat eyes made from sparkly paper.
Ghosts are cutest – er, I mean scariest – in a group. So inflate plenty of white balloons, and superglue paper eyes and mouths to them. Give these features slightly different shapes and stick them on at varying distances to create different facial expressions. Draw on little arms with a permanent marker if you like.
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Gruesome green balloons make ghastly vampires and Frankenstein monsters. Glue on ready-made googly eyes (available from craft shops or online), and make eyebrows, a hairline and a bow tie from black paper. You can add any other details with a permanent marker.
Buy ready-made stretchable spider web from a toy shop or online. Sometimes spiders are included, or you can buy little plastic spiders separately. The more you stretch the spider web, the more realistic it looks, so stretch it very thinly before you cover the balloon. Hook the spiders into the web and accept the fact that your DIY Halloween decorations will probably last until Easter, as spider web has a tendency to float away and get caught everywhere!
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