If you love Halloween, you know that half the fun of the holiday is the decorating leading up to it. While our favorite retail stores sell awesome seasonal items, this is the best time of year to DIY it up. Regardless of whether you have any crafting experience or not, we've gathered totally doable projects that won't take all month to make. Not only are they pretty simple to create, but they also don't require an excessive supply list, either. Get in the Halloween spirit with these great DIY decor ideas ahead!
— Additional reporting by Lauren Harano
Calling all plant parents! This festive succulent pumpkin planter is the perfect centerpiece idea for fall.
Turn your home into a web of Halloween decor galore when you display this cute spider garland.
Complete with a large web, spiders, and crows, this spooky mantel decor idea will turn your living room into a ghastly delight.
These easy ghost decorations would look great by the entryway, in the living room, or even in your bedroom.
Easy, creative, and cute, this DIY tag banner can come together in just a couple of minutes.
Your guests will be absolutely delighted to indulge in a sweet cake that's topped with these cute little ghosts.
Wrap your front door with medical gauze and stick on some big yellow paper eyes for an undead welcome.
Create a fabric banner to hang in your entryway. Bonus points for surrounding it with Fall foliage and a pumpkin!
These dripping-with-blood Halloween candles are so easy and cost basically nothing to make.
This candy-corn-inspired bottle makes for a cute decoration after the wine has been enjoyed.
We love this skull string art so much, we want to keep it up all year long!
Here's how to create these spookily easy jack-o'-lantern, ghost, and skeleton balloons for Halloween party decor that packs a big punch.
Mummifying your wine bottles with cheesecloth couldn't be any easier. Plus, they also make adorable hostess gifts!
Upcycle old cans into welcoming adornments for your front step. All you need is a hammer, nails, and a little patience to pull off this DIY.
Turn a balloon into a cat by taping on black paper ears, whiskers, and a nose. For the ghost, just stick on googly eyes. Throw in a big confetti-filled balloon and black balloon to create a pretty bunch.
This simple Halloween-themed mantel is even more chic in black and white.
Check out all of the fun and free printables from A Beautiful Mess to make unique Halloween decor like these poison bottles.
No need to be crafty for this Halloween project! All you need are a few glass containers, googly eyes, and a bit of gauze to create mummy jars for holding candy or candles or for being centerpieces.
This dip-dye glitter DIY is the easiest way to glam up your pumpkins.
With this creepy DIY decoration, you can put your own head in a jar!
All you need for this cute pumpkin DIY can be found at the dollar store.
Dollar-store trays come together so simply to create this creepy candy tray.
Boo! Easy DIY succulent pumpkins trump any jack-o'-lantern.
Head to the dollar store for a cheap vase and plastic bugs to create this hair-raising vase for displaying your flowers this Halloween.
Cover a dollar-store pumpkin or even a fresh gourd with thumbtacks to make these unique All Hallows' Eve decorations.
No Halloween party is complete without a frightfully fun photo backdrop, and this chalk one is positively bone-chilling.
For less than $10, you can transform a wreath frame into a spooky creation.
Transform a dollar-store pumpkin into a chic Halloween decoration with the help of superfine glitter.
You'll love how these mercury glass votives come together with the help of dollar-store votives or repurposed glass jars. And they're easier to make than you think!
All you need is Mod Podge and glitter to transform regular pumpkin garland into glitter-tastic decor!