You can’t make it through your 8 a.m. without smelling artificial pumpkin, the days are getting shorter, the temperatures lower, a night hasn’t passed that one of your friends hasn’t pranked you—Halloween must be near. While you may have thought of the perfect costume to commemorate the night, your dorm room or apartment might be lacking festivity. There’s no better way to get into the Halloween spirit than to bring it to your living space with these five simple DIY and in-store decoration ideas. Of course, make sure that your dorm or building allows decorating and make sure your roomie is up for it before you invade your room with pumpkins and spider webs.
Sinister spider window scene
What you need: Black electrical tape, black cardstock, black pipe cleaners and black string
How to: Using the tape, free-hand a spiderweb design using the full width for the straight sections, and cut the tape in half to make skinnier lengths for the scalloped sections. Fashion the black cardstock, black pipe cleaners and a length of the black string into a creepy-looking spider for the corner.
Painted pumpkins
What you need: A pumpkin and paint of your choice
How to: This one’s pretty self-explanatory: choose a pumpkin, clean and dry it, decide on a design (for example, if it’s a square pumpkin it could become a Frankenstein head) and paint it to your liking.
Mummy door decoration
What you need: White crepe paper, black marker, two white-paper plates and double-sided tape
How to: Start by drawing a large black circle in the middle of both the paper plates, wrap your door with the crepe paper, folding it on the inside of the door and securing it with the double-sided tape. Apply each streamer at a different angle to give it that mummy look and continue the process until the entire door is covered and tape the two eyes near the top of the door.
Toilet paper roll eyes
What you need: Toilet paper roll, glowstick bracelets and scissors
How to: This one’s a classic—first, draw eyes onto the toilet paper roll and cut them out with tiny scissors. Then, crack the glow stick bracelet, put it inside the toilet paper roll to give your eyes that glow-y look, and secure both sides with duct tape. Put the makeshift eyes throughout your room or apartment and outside your window and watch passers-by flee with fear.
Follow these ideas to bring Halloween into your living space, entertain your hall and definitely impress your friends. Happy haunting, Pios.
