Halloween lights and decoration ideas you can DIY.
Colorful floodlights add a haunted-house vibe to your run-of-the-mill dollar-store outdoor Halloween decorations.
Make Paper Silhouettes
Black-paper silhouettes are a wickedly cool way to make Halloween decorations light up the night. Get started with these silhouette templates — and then simply turn on your house lights to make them haunt your windows.
Build a Pumpkin Arch
Welcome younger trick-or-treaters with cheerful, plastic pumpkins. Set stakes to anchor an arch made of plastic PVC pipe, and attach pumpkins with zip ties. Add Halloween lighting with a string of clear Christmas lights for the perfect decoration.
Make a Scary Scene
If you’ve got a second floor, take advantage of it. Halloween decorations are so much spookier when they loom over you.
Repurpose Other Holiday Lights & Decor
For a low-stress holiday, repurpose holiday lights for Halloween decorations. Turn elves into ghosts and candy canes into snakes. The options are as endless as they are spooky.
Buy a Halloween Inflatable
Inflatables with built-in lighting will instantly boost your home’s Halloween curb appeal. This Grim Reaper ($279) inflates in minutes.
Craft Spooky Eyeball Lights
Trick-or-treaters will do a double-take when they see this Halloween decoration staring back at them. Made from ping pong balls, you can color the eyes with Sharpies and light them with Christmas string lights. LED holiday lights stay cool and won’t melt those eyeballs.
Cut Out Some Glowing Peepers
Here’s a decoration you can create using tubes from paper towels and toilet paper rolls. Cut out a pair of eyes, and light them up with glow sticks. Place these Halloween lights in your shrubbery for a unique decoration.
Mix Inside and Outside Lighting
Give your house the full holiday treatment by blending interior and outdoor Halloween decorations. Orange curtains, sparkly lights, and cat-eye shades upstairs mix with colored exterior lights downstairs. Keep the holiday safe by giving walkways adequate outdoor lighting.
Battery-Power Your Outdoor Halloween Decorations
If you want to decorate with Halloween lights but lack outlets, lots of LED lights run on AA batteries. A 23-foot strand (96 lights) is $24.
Glow All One Color
Try this monochromatic look for dramatic Halloween lighting. With LED bulbs, your Halloween decoration lights will use 75% less energy than incandescents.
Make a Very Creepy Head Lamp
