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How to Make 5 Spooky DIY Halloween Crafts In Under 5 Minutes

October 11, 2017 By Vanessa Beaty 1 Comment

Halloween is really the beginning of the festive fall and winter season I think, even before Thanksgiving. True, we all know Halloween is for kids, but come on—what’s not to love, especially if you’re a crafter?

There are SO many spectacular DIY projects for Halloween, like these 35 last-minute Halloween costumes, and these 25 gruesome DIY haunted house props.

Now I want to share 5 fast and easy projects which you can do in a matter of minutes to add some more Halloween spookiness to your abode!

Table of Contents

  • Video tutorials
  • Materials:
  • Directions:
  • Witch Candy Container
  • Glowing Eyes
  • Painted Pumpkin
  • Lollipop Spiders
  • Halloween Wreath

Video tutorials

Materials:

Decorative paper
Paper hat
Hot glue and glue gun
Scissors
Plastic or glass bowl
Flower pot
Ribbons
Water collection tray
Toilet paper tube
Marker
LED tea light
Pumpkin
Paint
Exacto knife
Pipe cleaners
Lollipops
Googly eyes
Pre-made wreath

Directions:

Witch Candy Container

1. Get a paper hat (or fold a piece of paper into a cone shape), and hot glue it to a second piece of decorative paper such as construction paper.
Witch Candy Container Tutorial

2. Cut around the cone and continue to affix the paper so that it covers it entirely.

Witch Candy Container Tutorial
3. Setting the paper-covered cone aside, get an empty flower pot and set it upside-down. Tie some ribbons around it near the top.

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Witch Candy Container Tutorial
4. Get a glass or plastic bowl and put hot glue on the bottom of it so that you can attach it to the flower pot. The pot is the witch’s “body,” while the bowl is the witch’s “head.”

Witch Candy Container Tutorial
Witch Candy Container Tutorial

5. Next, fill the bowl with candies.

Witch Candy Container Tutorial

6. Grab the water collection tray that came with your flower pot and set it on top of the bowl. Do not glue it on. Remember, you need to be able to remove it to get at the candy.

Witch Candy Container Tutorial

7. Put some glue on the paper-covered cone you made earlier and put it on top of the tray. Combined, the tray and the cone become the witch’s “hat.”

Witch Candy Container Tutorial

Finish decorating the “witch” with any embellishments you’d like. A couple of little triangles cut from construction paper work great for eyes.

Witch Candy Container Tutorial

Glowing Eyes

1. Start with a toilet paper roll and a marker in any color.

Glowing Eyes Tutorial

2. Draw eyes on the toilet paper roll. You can make them look however you want—the spookier, the better.

Glowing Eyes Tutorial

3. Use the guidelines you drew to cut out the eyes using an Exacto knife or anything else you have that will suffice.

Glowing Eyes Tutorial
Glowing Eyes Tutorial

4. Now, get some tea lights to put inside. Real fire would be a hazard, as would incandescent light, so choose LED tea lights which do not generate heat.

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Glowing Eyes Tutorial

Now you have cute glow-in-the-dark eyes you can display anywhere. It just goes to show you can make some pretty cool props using really basic supplies.

Painted Pumpkin Tutorial

Painted Pumpkin

Don’t fancy carving a pumpkin? It’s okay, a lot of people don’t really have the skills to do a great job. But you can make a pretty awesome pumpkin just with paint.

Painted Pumpkin Tutorial

1. First, draw the outlines of eyes on the pumpkin.

Painted Pumpkin Tutorial

4. Next, sketch the mouth.

Painted Pumpkin Tutorial

4. Now, paint the eyes. You can use any color, but black provides a great contrast with the pumpkin.
Painted Pumpkin Tutorial

5. After you fill in the eyes, paint the mouth, using the lines you have drawn for guidance.

Painted Pumpkin Tutorial

6. Attach a bow to the top. If you go with black again, this will help draw emphasis to the eyes and mouth you painted, and will again contrast vividly with the orange.

Painted Pumpkin Tutorial
Attach any extra embellishments you want and paint in added details, and you are good to go. You now have an awesome pumpkin, and you didn’t have to do any carving at all!
Painted Pumpkin Tutorial

Lollipop Spiders

1. Begin with a lollipop and some pipe cleaners. Begin cutting up the pipe cleaners so that they are about the same length as the lollipop stick. The pipe cleaners should be black or brown as they are going to be the legs of the spider.

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Lollipop Spiders Tutorial
Lollipop Spiders Tutorial

2. Apply glue to the lollipop stick and attach the pipe cleaners. Bend each one at the end so that they are like “feet.”

Lollipop Spiders Tutorial
Lollipop Spiders Tutorial

4. Now attach some googly eyes to the spider.

Lollipop Spiders Tutorial

You now have adorable little spiders with the lollipops as bodies!

Lollipop Spiders Tutorial

Halloween Wreath

1. Attach a bow to a simple store-bought wreath.

Halloween Wreath Tutorial
Halloween Wreath Tutorial

2. Add some cute pipe cleaner critters or other Halloween decorations.

Halloween Wreath Tutorial
Halloween Wreath Tutorial
Halloween Wreath Tutorial

Embellish with fake cobweb and hang to display.

Halloween Wreath Tutorial

Enjoy these spooky Halloween DIY crafts. You can make any one of them in minutes, and probably already have most of the supplies at home!

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  1. haley says

    October 11, 2017 at 11:05 pm

    very cute i love it very Halloween like decorations!

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