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Hello Frugal followers! We seem to find ourselves at the outset of yet another harrowing holiday season, and since it’s always a challenge pinching our pennies this time of year, we’re going to help you out with a few Frugal-favored tips to help keep your money in your pocketbook.
Top Five Frugal family Halloween decorations
That’s right! We all love Halloween and the feeling of everlasting youth that it gives us, but turning your home into an alarming arena of fright can be a formidable task for even the best deal-finders out there. Thankfully, there are a great number of ways to transform your abode into a terrifying abyss without doing the same to your bank account.
1. Spooky Halloween Yard Sign
This one is great. A few thin, wooden boards, black paint or markers, and a hammer and nails give you a blood-curdling caveat to traveling trick-or-treaters. Add some stretched out cotton for cobwebs for even more chills.
2. Halloween Luminaries
Fill an empty soup can with water and freeze. Take your tin can filled with ice and trace a dotted pattern along it. Your pattern can be anything you’d like (pumpkins, cats or even a simple Happy Halloween will do). Puncture the holes of your dotted pattern with a nail or some other similarly sharp object, then run under hot water to melt the ice. Once dry, paint the can any color you’d like, place in a small candle and voila! You’ve got terrifying, tiny torches to beckon trick-or-treaters to your door.
3. Halloween Snow Globes
This one is fun and, with a tiny switch in the materials, can easily be used for other holidays as well. You’ll need a clear jar with a leak-proof top, some small stones or pebbles, a miniature spider or other Halloween figurine, and some black and orange confetti. Simply fill the jar with all the aforementioned items and add water. This is a great looking item and is perfect for getting the kids involved in the decorating.
4. Tombstones!
Bwahahahaha!!! This Halloween staple is back and better than ever. Start by carving out the shape of a tombstone from a large, Styrofoam board. Once done, go ahead and use gray spray paint to give the board the look of concrete. Then just use a knife to carve whatever words or phrase you’d like into your tombstone, go over the carved-out areas with black marker, and you have yourself a hair-raising Halloween headstone.
5. Pumpkin Vase
Cut the top off of a tall, thin pumpkin and relieve said pumpkin of its innards. Place some roses that you’ve hanged upside down for a few days and given sufficient time to dry out into the pumpkin. If you’re working on short notice, you can simply spray paint the flowers black for a similar effect. Just like that, you’ve got a creepy pumpkin vase that’s perfect for the season.
What about you? What are your favorite free or cheap Halloween decorations?
That’s all for now, but rest assured that we’ll be back to bestow some great Frugal holiday knowledge upon you in the very near future: We’ve got great new frugal Halloween articles coming every day until Halloween!
