5 Halloween hacks you can make yourself for less than a fiver and they’re guaranteed to terrify trick or treaters
HALLOWEEN season is upon us and with just days to go we’ve found five ways to spook your trick or treaters without breaking the bank.
From smoking pumpkins to eerie flying bats lurking in the shadows, these TikToker's have got creative and made all their Halloween decorations from scratch.
The best part is they won’t cost you any more than a fiver to replicate each idea in time for October 31.
1. Smoking pumpkin
Shandy and Mark (@Down_Mulberry_Lane) spooked up their home with their smoking pumpkin idea.
In an shared with over 251k followers you’ll see how to make your pumpkin’s come to life with smoke billowing out from the eyes and mouth for that spooky effect.
All you need is a carvable foam pumpkin or better still a large real life pumpkin carved to perfection. Next, brush the dust of that air diffuser or buy one for just £2.25 from .
Use the lid of your air diffuser to draw a guideline at the base of the pumpkin.
Carve around this guideline so that your air diffuser can hide inside the pumpkin.
All you have to do now is flick the switch and let your hidden diffuser do the rest.
All you need now is some double sided sticky tape from (for a quid) to stick the batwings temporarily inside your lampshades. When night falls, so will your trick or treaters with fear.
With just a few bin liners and some sticky tape your windows will be webbed in no time.
After cutting away the two edges, the TikToker then proceeds to cut a row of slates alongside the edge.
First she blows up the balloons, tying the fishing wire to the toggles.
She then sizes up her white table cloth to cut out the amount of ghosts planned to make.
Black ghostly eyes are glued on, but can be drawn with a black marker pen to save time and money.
Once complete, cover each balloon in a white sheet and pull the fishing wire through a tiny hole made in the top centre of each table cloth cut out.
The TikToker uses this wire to attach the sticky back hooks so the ghosts can be placed on your ceilings, or better still a ceiling fan if you have one.
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