Create your own Halloween at home and enjoy the spooky season in any way you can. What I like about Halloween is getting creative and dressing up as someone, I think it's fun to portray a certain character and get to be something or somebody else other than yourself. Here in the Philippines, celebration of Halloween like houses decorating and kids going trick or treating from house to house is not widely done or practiced but there are some people who do throw Halloween or costume parties, some showcase their spooky and fun costumes in the streets or places such as malls, restaurants, stores, etc. put up Halloween decorations or organize Halloween events, etc. for kids and everyone with a fee.
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This year, we tried doing our own Halloween celebration at home, just having fun decorating spooky stuff, dressing up in whatever simple costume we can put together with clothes in our drawer and closet, etc. This DIY has no specific theme but I use common Halloween colors and elements such as: black cats, spiders, and jack o' lanterns. I just had some decors, a simple costume, Halloween table getting creative with spooky snacks and drinks and some Halloween treats. In this post, I'll be sharing some resources and links how you can prepare and create your own simple but fun and colorful Halloween at home.
EASY HALLOWEEN COSTUME IDEA + LINK TO FREE PRINTABLE MASK TEMPLATES & MORE!
Have fun dressing up for Halloween even without spending too much. Me and Lauren dress up as "vampire" and "devil". For my part, I just use a simple black blouse I could find in the closet and use this black necklace with a large oval pendant as accessory then had my nails painted with black nail polish and put on some fangs made from white plastic straws, you can purchase fangs online or do it yourself, Click Here To Check Out How To Make Vampire Teeth using many other different methods with household items that you may already have at home. I also created a simple mask for us, Click Here To Check Out Masquerade & Mardi Gras Mask Templates, I used Masquerade Mask #1 to create my simple vampire mask.
As for Lauren she wore a black short sleeved leotard that she used last time in a school activity, it would have been great to wear a red one but since she doesn't have that, she just wore a red denim short pants to make up for it instead. I made a devil mask for her, Click Here To Check Out Superhero Mask Templates, I used template #2 or the cat mask and just altered it into a devil mask by altering the ears to look like horns.
Create your own devil or vampire costume by putting together any clothing you already have or if you will have to buy or make anything, it's of something that you can dispose of easily afterwards or still use in other ways after Halloween.
Easy Devil Costume
NOTE: Click on image for a better view.
Or try dressing up as any character for Halloween by looking for characters in TV shows or movies wearing normal everyday clothing or something that you can recreate easily using anything you already have or if you have to buy anything, it would be something you can still make use of afterwards.
Easy Vampire Costume
EASY HALLOWEEN WALL DECORS + LINKS TO FREE PRINTABLES
I taped bats and spiders on the wall as spooky decorations. My bats and spiders are handmade using a blank template that I traced on black paper and I just added the eyes to complete everything.
Check out the links below for some FREE printable cute spooky Halloween characters that you can quickly use to decorate your wall or all around and together with your Halloween banner.
FREE Printable Cute Spooky Halloween Decorations
Complete your wall decoration by adding some banners. Check out the links below for some FREE printable Halloween Banners, choose from the common "Happy Halloween" to "Trick or Treat", "Boo!" or form words however you want to put it using the Halloween Alphabet banner!
FREE Printable Halloween Banners Set 1
FREE Printable Halloween Banners Set 2
CREATE A HALLOWEEN TABLE + LINKS TO FREE PRINTABLES
Create a special Halloween table to display some Halloween inspired foods or snacks and drinks for the kids or whole family. Since I don't have a table cloth with the color I can use for our Halloween table, I cover our table with black and purple Cartolina paper instead then put plastic cover on top to protect the paper underneath. I cut orange, black, and purple crepe papers into large triangle buntings to hang around the sides of the table just to cover those areas of the table that are not fully covered and to spice things up as well. I added extra white tiny dots on the black bunting and a triangle eyes, nose and oval mouth on the orange bunting to make it look like a jack o' lantern.
Check out the links below for a variety of FREE printable Halloween inspired buntings you can immediately hung all around and on your table as well for extra embellishments and to spice things up and into the Halloween spirit! The links are arranged in order of how the banner samples appear in the collage image below (from top then middle left to right ; bottom left to right).
EASY DIY HALLOWEEN FOODS + LINKS TO FREE PRINTABLES
Get creative with your own Halloween foods to add to your table and serve and share with your family, below are easy Halloween foods you can create with hotdogs, sausages, cheese, boiled eggs, bread, burger buns, crackers, marshmallows, peanut butter, vegetables, fruits, etc. Try substituting some hard to find ingredients with ones you can easily buy near you or that is similar to the one suggested.
I made my own "monster" cupcakes using easily available ingredients, I bought these plain cupcakes in pack of 10 from the supermarket and just decorate them to look like monsters using chocolate pretzel sticks, large white marshmallows, candy covered chocolates and cream sticks.
Get creative with some spooky fun Halloween cupcake desserts, Check out these quick and easy Halloween cupcake decorating ideas that you can try yourself by checking out the links below.
Easy Halloween Cupcakes
Or if you want to skip the process of creating those spooky and creepy characters on the cupcakes yourself, simply top your cupcakes with these colorful FREE printable Halloween cupcake toppers by clicking on the links below.
Buy some cupcakes with frosting or create the frosting yourself then just insert any of these toppers. Try this easy White Fluffy Frosting and just tint it with powder, liquid or gel food coloring or this Chocolate Frosting then just sprinkle some Halloween candy sprinkles or dragees on top!
EASY HALLOWEEN DRINKS + LINKS TO FREE PRINTABLES
I made our drink using strawberry flavored powdered juice, I was supposed to add something like "blood" dripping down the sides of the glasses using red food color. I can't find any liquid food coloring so I bought the powder form instead that was labeled "strawberry red" but when I mixed it with water, it wasn't red as I'd expect it to be but it was color black, anyway I think it still did its job because it kind of looks like spooky "black goo" flowing down the sides of our drinking glasses as seen in the picture above so that's okay.
Try creating your own spooky Halloween drinks to go with the celebration. Here are 4 Halloween drinks I found that you can easily create with red juice, orange juice, milk, or canned lychees just add creepy things like spiders, eyeball toys etc. to make them extra creepy or into the Halloween spirit.
Or if you want to skip the creation process of your drinks, simply cover any bottled drink with these FREE printable Halloween bottle labels by clicking on the links below to make any normal drink interesting and seem spooky.
DIY HALLOWEEN TREAT HOLDERS USING CHEAP & RECYCLED MATERIALS!
SOME MATERIALS YOU CAN USE
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GET A LOW-COST AND QUALITY PRINTER FOR HOME PRINTING
Print FREE printables for home DIYs and more! I'm using "HP Ink Tank 115" single function inkjet printer for printing templates I used for my DIYs. I bought it online at shopee.ph. It is a quality and low-cost printer for home printing that uses tank for the ink. It needs a total of 4 ink bottles (CMYK) to refill the tank, you can save even more by refilling with universal ink. Just make sure the ink is compatible with the printer model before deciding on a purchase.
Have fun and get creative this Halloween, try creating your own simple but spooktastic celebration at home!
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POST UPDATED: October 2023
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