Do you ever want to decorate your house to look more “Halloween-y” but never want to spend enormous amounts of money and time to decorate? Well then, here are five easy and cheap ways to decorate your house to look ready for this year’s Halloween.

Mason Jar Mummy

First you would need a Mason Jar, dollar store gauze and googly eyes (if you want a scarier decoration, make your own scary eyes).

1. Apply some glue around the mason jar
2. Wrap the gauze around the mason jar (the you want it to look like a mummy)
3. Then attach the 2 googly eyes on top of the gauze
4. Lastly put a candle in the mason jar

And Voila! Now you have a cute mummy looking decoration.

Spooky Eyes

First you would need empty toilet paper rolls, and glow sticks

1. Cut out two “eye” holes into your toilet paper roll. Make them as scary as you want.
2. Stick the glow sticks in at night

Now you can put this in your trees or bushes around your house which allows you to have little eyes staring at anyone who passes your house.

Bloody Handprint

This DIY decoration will allow you to have bloody handprints all over your windows and mirrors because they cling to just about any smooth surface.

All you need are Elmer’s glue, red food coloring and parchment paper.

1. Mix red food coloring and Elmer’s glue together in the glue container
2. Put the red glue evenly and plentifully on your hands
3. Put your hand nicely on parchment paper and hold for 5 seconds and then take it off
4. Let the glue dry
5. Paste it on mirrors, windows, doors, etc.

Spooky Milk Jugs

For this decoration all you need is a few clean gallon milk jugs, a permanent marker, a string of lights or a candle.

1. Draw a scary faces on your milk jugs
2. Cut the bottom of your milk jugs and stick a candle in the center (This is slightly dangerous because the milk jugs could catch on fire) OR  Put a sting of lights inside your milk jugs and now you have a nice bright scary faced milk jug.
3. Line several of these milk jugs on your walkway.

Ghostly balloons

For this decoration you need glow sticks, a permanent marker and white balloons.

1. Put a cracked glow stick in your balloon
2. Blow up your balloon
3. Draw a “scary face” on you balloon
4. Put in anywhere you want to show off your awesome balloons

Too Many Spiders

All you need is spider rings from the dollar store and double sided tape.

1. Cut the ring part of the spider ring
2. Stick the tape on the spider
3. Put a whole bunch of spiders on your door