The Halloween Idea Place

by Rachael Willerton

Try these ideas for affordable ways to turn your home into a haunted house at Halloween.

Witches Lair

Simply cut down the sides of wheelie bin size bin liners and open out. The bin liners are just the right size to cover the wall from floor to ceiling. Stick the bin liners all around the walls to black out. Cut the bin liner into strips at door opening. Decorate with pumpkin shapes and fake spiders webs or draw a spiders web with a silver marker or tipex pen. It’s amazing how effective it is. [read full article]

by Derek Blandford

Three things come to mind when I think of Halloween: trick or treat, costumes, and pumpkin decorating. Of the three, pumpkin decorating is my favorite.

Halloween crafts are limited in scope only by your imagination, but while most people choose carving as their method for pumpkin decorating, pumpkin painting may be a better alternative. Here’s three reasons why. [read full article]

by Brian Johnson

If you just want to take a steak knife and hack out your every day pumpkin face, then this article is not for you. We’re going to take a look at gourmet pumpkin carving for true Halloween connoisseurs. OK, maybe gourmet is a bit of overkill, but why settle for just another carved pumpkin when you can have a prize-winning jack-o-lantern instead? [read full article]

by Angela Maroevich

Looking for some great Halloween crafts for your Halloween party, haunted house, or just for trick-or-treaters?

A fun craft is something that can keep you occupied for hours on end especially if you enjoy it. Here are some ideas that will hopefully set you on your way in preparation for your next Halloween…[read full article]

by Susan Penney

Halloween is more than kids and candy. It has, in the past few years, become one of the major events for which Americans decorate their homes! So here are four quick, easy, and simple Halloween decorating ideas featuring your fireplace hearth: [read full article]

by Dan Wright

Mom had talked about how having a witch’s cauldron prop for Halloween this year would really put her into the spirit of things. So naturally, when I saw one in a store at the mall with color-changing fog rising up from within the large black cauldron all covered in cobwebs, it got my attention. [read full article]

by Brian Johnson

If you just want to take a steak knife and hack out your every day pumpkin face, then this article is not for you. We’re going to take a look at gourmet pumpkin carving for true Halloween connoisseurs. OK, maybe gourmet is a bit of overkill, but why settle for just another carved pumpkin when you can have a prize-winning jack-o-lantern instead? [read full article]

by Angela Maroevich

Looking for some great Halloween crafts for your Halloween party, haunted house, or just for trick-or-treaters?

A fun craft is something that can keep you occupied for hours on end especially if you enjoy it. Here are some ideas that will hopefully set you on your way in preparation for your next Halloween…[read full article]