Ideas for Decorating for Halloween that are Cheap and Easy

Let me share a little something about me, I LOVE Halloween! I think my love affair with Halloween began 33 years ago when I hosted my first Halloween party and I was hooked! Along with making costumes, party planning, without a doubt I love decorating for Halloween! I’m always looking for new ideas for decorating for Halloween that are cheap and easy.

Mid-September you will start to find Halloween decor throughout my home. From the kitchen to the bathroom, no room is left out. I just keep thinking of more ideas for decorating for Halloween.

Last year my theme for Halloween decorating was bewitching. However, this year, I wanted something new…after a little thought I decided on bats. You will find bats sprinkled throughout my home this year. In addition to this, Steve and I will have “bat” costumes this year. You want to watch for that on Instagram. Certainly it will put a smile on your face.

Not only will I share unique ideas for decorating for Halloween, but also I will share how I did it on a budget. Yes these ideas are cheap and easy!

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Ideas for Decorating the Front Porch for Halloween

Halloween Front Porch Decorating Ideas — In keeping with my bat theme this year, I placed dead branches in a thrifted pot

Let’s begin with the front porch. First, I gathered dead branches (free) from my yard and secured them in a pot with rocks.

Ideas for Decorating for Halloween - Bats — Bats are clipped on dead branches on the front porch for eerie Halloween Decor.

Then I clipped to the branches glittery bats from Dollar Tree. These bats are a bargain at 4 for $1. There were a few branches that were too thick for the clips, so I drilled a small hole in them and hung them with fishing line.

Pumpkins for Halloween Decor — Pumpkins are a cheap and easy way to decorate for Halloween.

Second, I draped some creepy fabric and added a few pumpkins.

Halloween Bat Wreath — Every holiday needs a festive wreath. This year I added a twiggy wreath, added LED lights and clip on bats.

Once I had my bat theme, I began to look online for ideas for a wreath. I found one I loved at Pottery Barn, however I didn’t love the $59 price tag.

There will be an upcoming post September 24th with the details on this wreath. Would you believe mine was less than $15?

This year I did purchase a new Halloween doormat from At Home.

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Ideas for Decorating the Entryway for Halloween

Halloween Pillow — A cozy throw and a festive pillow great visitors when they enter our home.

If you only add Halloween decor to one area of your home, it should be the entryway. It’s the perfect spot to greet your visitors with some fun and festive decor.

A soft and cozy throw is layered on a refinished chair, topped with a fun black and white pumpkin pillow I picked up on Amazon a few weeks ago. I went to link it for you, but it appears it’s no longer available.☹️

Above the chair we added a vintage window that is painted with a crackle finish and we added a vinyl saying.

Ideas for Decorating for Halloween — The entryway is the perfect spot to great visitors with creative Halloween Decorating.

To help the Halloween decor stand out, we flipped all of the books backward, except for the Halloween spell and potion books.

Branches and bats were added to the black and white vase. The summer wreath on the vintage window was replaced with a colorful bittersweet wreath.

A couple of black and white pumpkins balance out the large vases.

Finally we added the Sleepy Hollow Sign. I made this sign a few years ago after we moved into our current home.

Our home is in the Sleepy Hollow subdivision and on Halloween the headless horseman roams our streets. It’s really quite a sight to see.

We get several hundred trick or treaters each year who come to celebrate Halloween in the hollow. It’s just one big party!

Easy Ideas for Decorating for Halloween

Halloween Potion Bottles — We love to add DIY ideas for decorating for Halloween. We’ve included here some potion bottles as well as a witches cookbook.

We’ve incorporated our 3 steps guide to decorating shelves with our Halloween Decor as well. The books are placed and balanced, then we filled in the shelves with photographs, potion bottles, both homemade and bought along with spell books.

Halloween Decorating Ideas — Create a stack of spooky books from thrift store books, scrapbook paper and stickers. Tie them into a bundle for a festive Halloween vignette.

Clearly each year I need to find a great place to display some of the photographs of the grandkids in their Halloween costumes. They are just too cute!

Several years back we made spell and potion books from thrift store books. We simply covered the old books with scrapbook paper and added titles with letter stickers. Easy and cheap!

More Halloween Potion Bottles — Search vintage and thrift stores to create a collection of vintage bottles. Embellish with fancy labels and group them on a vintage silver-plate tray.

Indeed, you can never have too many pumpkins, right?

More vintage potion bottles. The two on the left are actually vintage prescription bottles that I picked up at one of my favorite vintage stores, Urban Renewal.

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Ideas for Decorating the Living Room for Halloween

Coffee table styling — Spider web fabric draped on the coffee table add to that eerie Halloween vibe. A tray styled with black and white candles, a pair of ravens and a finger knit pumpkin.

The living room is right of the entryway and deserves a little halloween decor too.

The coffee table is draped with a spider web lace shawl. This shall has been part of my witch costume in the past.

We created a vignette on an old tray with black and white candlesticks, a pair of ravens and a finger knit pumpkin that’s been embellished with fall berries and a bat.

Halloween styling — A table styled with a Halloween vignette .

More creepy cloth, a pumpkin, a spooky candy dish and an old padlock complete this vignette.

Halloween vignette — An eerie candelabra with bleeding candles bring in that Halloween vibe.

Halloween decorations — A collection of pumpkins bring in a festive feeling in the living room. Don’t you just love the softness of the finger knit pumpkin.

More pumpkins (including another finger knit pumpkin) are layered on the piano with more creepy cloth and an old candelabra that I spray painted black.

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Ideas for Decorating the Mantel for Halloween

I’m always looking for new ideas for decorating my mantle for Halloween. While at Dollar Tree I spotted the skeleton bats and knew they would be fun as garland on my mantle.

A coat of black spray paint transformed the bats. As luck would have it, the bat feet fit perfectly over the small beads on my garland.

The bat garland cost me $5. I already had the bead garland and black spray paint.

Ideas for Decorating a Halloween Mantle — By adding black painted twigs and bats to my existing fall decor was an easy and cheap way to add Halloween decor to my Mantle.

Doesn’t it look cute and spooky!

Halloween Decorating with Bats — Dollar Tree clip on bats is an easy and cheap way to add Halloween decor

To add to the fall decor already in place on the mantle, we tucked in branches that we painted black. Finally to complete the look, we clipped on the glittered Dollar Tree bats.

Ideas for Decorating the Family Room for Halloween

Ideas for Halloween Decorating — I wanted a bat themed Halloween, so I just flew with it.

My idea for decorating the family room for Halloween was more and more bats. The 3-D bats are inexpensive and come with an adhesive that will not harm walls. Not only do they attach quick and easy but they also look to realistic on the walls.

Halloween Coffee Table Styling — I added a bat bowl and hourglass to my existing fall decor.

A tray corrals the coffee table Halloween display. Do you love the bat hourglass and candy dish.

Halloween Pillow for Decorating — Festive pillows are a great ideas for adding Halloween decor. These pillows are easily made from bar towel from Target.

One of the best ideas for decorating for halloween is changing pillow covers. It’s an inexpensive way to add a little holiday pizzazz.

For example these no-sew halloween pillow covers were made from bar towels for only $3.

Ideas for Decorating for Halloween | Pillow Covers — We of course had to bring in our reversible fall\Halloween pillow into our decor. But I also switched out the pillow covers for black and white one.

All of the pillow on the sectional were an Easy DIY. As well as the reversible rug pillow that we made for only $3.

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We hope you’ve been inspired with new ideas for decorating your home for Halloween!

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What Ideas for Decorating for Halloween Inspired you?

What Halloween decorating ideas will you incorporate into your home? Will you be running to Dollar Tree for some Halloween decor?

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