DIY Halloween Decorations on a Kiwi Budget

Cheap and easy DIY Halloween decorations you can make with supermarket and craft-store supplies.

You don't need an expensive Halloween shop haul. These DIY ideas use things you can pick up at the supermarket, a craft store or the $2 shop.

Entrance and outside

**Pumpkin path:** carve or paint pumpkins and line the driveway with battery tea lights

**Paper bats:** cut black card bats and stick them up the front door and walls

**Ghost trees:** drape cheesecloth over shrubs and add googly eyes

**Bottle labels:** relabel old jars as "potions" with brown paper and a marker

**Spider web corners:** stretch cotton-wool webbing across corners and add plastic spiders

**Floating candles:** paint toilet-roll tubes white and pop a battery tea light on top

Black tablecloth or kraft paper runner

Small pumpkins and pinecones sprayed matte black

Candelabras from the op shop with LED candles

Use LED candles near paper, cheesecloth or costumes

Keep walkways clear of trip hazards like cords and props

Secure outdoor decorations if it's windy

Compost carved pumpkins, roast the seeds as a snack and store reusable décor in a labelled box for next year.