Halloween is a holiday that first appeared among the ancient Celts of Ireland and Scotland. It is celebrated on October 31, the eve of All Saints' Day, and is usually celebrated in English-speaking countries, as well as in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. But starting from the end of the twentieth century, this day began to be celebrated in many other European countries and in the former Soviet republics. On this day, many people put on scary costumes and decorate their homes and offices with cobwebs on interesting holiday Halloween quickly and step by step with your own hands.

We bring to your attention several options for making a web for a holiday with your own hands using different techniques, for example, from paper.

How to make a huge cobweb for Halloween with your own hands

To create a large rope web, you will need the following content and materials:

• Double-sided adhesive tape;
• Thread gray or black;
• Spider for decorating the web (plastic or other material).

After preparing everything required material and tools, start making a gloomy decorative web of threads. Before starting all the manipulations, think carefully about how your web will look like - what size it will be, and how your threads will go. Based on this, stick small pieces of double-sided tape to the wall - you will need a lot of pieces.

First glue the pieces of thread that will go in the direction from the center (straight lines), and then start gluing the threads that go around the circle of the web. If desired, attach a toy spider to your large web.

We make a spider web from gauze: a detailed description of the work

Ordinary gauze is also suitable for decorating the interior. Cut off a suitable piece of medical gauze. Start stretching it randomly. You can even make holes in the fabric in places. Such a web looks best in the form of arbitrarily hanging tatters. You can wrap individual items in the room with it. Dye the fabric any color you like. If you decide not to paint all the gauze used, it is possible to emphasize its individual sections with a coloring composition that must be applied with a brush.

It is not necessary to use this element of decor only in the interior. You can add a cobweb to a suit or some small accessories. This decoration is very easy to create. It all depends on what material the selected product is made of, for example, beads. If there is enough time to prepare for the holiday, you can even paint glassware with special paints. You can draw by hand or use a stencil. If desired, you can simply draw a web on the skin. In the embroidered version on the fabric, it will also look good. Do not forget about textile paints that allow you to apply any image on clothes.

We are trying to make a web of threads: ideas and a description of the manufacture

If you need to decorate walls or floors, the best option will become a woven web. To create it, you will need threads, the thickness of which depends on the size of the finished decoration.

For convenience, draw a random sketch on a fox of paper. Start with the basics. To do this, take several pieces of thread of equal length. Cross the first two in the middle. Fix in a convenient way - pushpins, pins, wire or double-sided tape are suitable. Then fasten the remaining threads in the same way, making sure that the intersection point is the same for everyone, and the segments are connected exactly in the middle. At this stage, the Halloween cobweb looks like an asterisk. Now you can start weaving the spider web itself: moving in a spiral direction, you need to connect the guide threads. Avoid excessive tension. Leave the ends free or fix them with another turn - it's up to you.

If you want to wrap cobwebs in lamps, interior details or an entire closet, you will need a couple of spools of thin thread. Randomly wrap it around an existing object. You can allow sagging, or you can form a tight, dense cocoon. It will be interesting to look at this technique with threads of white or gray. If desired, you can independently paint the cobweb in a dirty-dusty color. To do this, thoroughly soak the thread in a solution of black paint, dry it, and then proceed to winding. To give elasticity and durability to the web, you can make it from threads impregnated with PVA glue. But remember that such decoration can smear the base with the composition. It's perfect for decorating disposable tableware and bottles for the table.

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Wonderful, frightening and so unusual for our country, Halloween is inexorably approaching. There are those who will not even notice how the night of October 31 will fly by, and there are those who are already starting to think about their costume, watching makeup master classes, and also decorating the house with themed decor. If you are planning a party with friends at home or just want to add some mysticism to the interior, then this article will be useful to you. We have found ten examples of how you can decorate your house for Halloween without spending too much money and artistic skills.

Blood Candles

Making such a frightening decor is as easy as shelling pears. All you need is two types of candles - white and red. Cover the table with newspapers or sheets of paper and light a red candle. When it's hot enough, tilt it up and start dripping wax onto the white candle. Do it until white candle will not be sufficiently covered with red wax.

Door with a face

Such decor will especially delight children. If you do not want to injure the tender souls of your neighbors, decorate the door from the inside of the apartment. All you need is double-sided tape, paper, and a little imagination.

Gauze web

A very simple and at the same time effective way to turn a house from a beloved and clean home into a long forgotten and abandoned one. Make an imitation of a web of gauze. For greater persuasiveness, you can put artificial spiders on this gauze.

How to Decorate Your Home for Halloween: Bloody Prints

If there is neither time nor energy for a complex decor, then dip your hands in red paint and swipe across the window in several places. It looks intimidating, as if someone was dragging the victim somewhere, and she resisted. Some specialty carnival or art stores sell red hand stickers that leave no residue.

Ghost town

You know, at Christmas it's popular to make holiday villages with a bunch of glowing, cheerful houses and then put them on the windowsill. Why not take the same idea and apply it to Halloween? let the houses be completely black and empty (or with mini-candles inside). Blanks for creativity in the form of wooden houses are sold at the Leonardo hypermarket or at the Masters Fair. You just have to take a brush, black paint and carefully paint over the entire tree.

Legs up

With the help of sausage balloons, long leggings or tights and a pair of shoes, you can make the entrance to the house intimidating or at least surprising. We advise you not to hang your favorite shoes on such legs so that they do not disappear. Just in case.

Halloween Decor: Ghosts

Good-natured Caspers will appear in your home if you inflate white balloons (without the help of helium), hang them from a chandelier, for example, and cover with universal gauze. It's up to you to give a funny or sad face to your ghost.

Animated bottles

Agree, it looks creepy when inanimate things take on an essence. Do not throw away bottles of wine and lemonade on the eve of the holiday: they can be turned into a Frankenstein, a mummy or a witch.

The same can be done with banks.

Terrifying portraits

An easy and fun way to decorate your home for Halloween is to decorate family portraits with paper. You can cut out eye sockets from black cardboard and stick them over the eyes in portraits (this is for those who like it scarier), for more impressionable people, cardboard witch hats, mustaches or a Batman mask are suitable.

window monsters

We have already suggested using windows in decoration. In addition to bloody prints, you can populate them with funny monsters. Cutting these monsters out of paper can keep kids busy and can be art therapy for adults.

Whether you decide to decorate your home for Halloween or not, we wish you a peaceful and stress-free night before All Saints' Day.

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Even if you don't plan on celebrating Halloween in a big way, you can still customize your home with a ball of thread, tape, colored paper, and scissors.

Often on the Internet you can find advice on how to make a Halloween spider web with glue, however, after trying this method, I came to the conclusion that it is easier to make a spider web with adhesive tape.

1. It is better to weave a web on a flat flat surface: on the floor or on a table. We make the "basis" for the web. To do this, fold 6 threads of the same length crosswise. It turns out a kind of "snowflake". We fasten the middle with adhesive tape, and glue the edges with adhesive tape to the floor (or to the table) on which we make the web. Only it is necessary to glue it not in tightness, but in such a way that a ball can be drawn under the base without tearing the ends off the surface.

2. Now we take a ball and start weaving. We tie the tip of the thread to the middle of the web and start a ball for each warp thread. At the same time, we will alternate: we wrap it around one thread 1 time, and tie it to the other with a knot. Thanks to this, the web will be smoother. So we weave in a circle: wrap once, tie the other.

3. We tie the last row with knots so that the web does not bloom.

Now we carefully unfasten the edges of the web from the floor and carry it with outstretched arms to where we want to hang it. For example, on the door. Having thrown a web on the door, we fix it with adhesive tape, and in the middle we plant a spider cut out of colored paper. (We then painted the spider from the photo with a black felt-tip pen - so it became much brighter).

I will not be mistaken if I say that soon the whole world will be tinkering. This is one of those holidays when almost every house wants to make such a monster, or an attribute that goes back to the Celtic customs of this holiday. To be honest, I am not a fan of horror films, especially when it comes to our kids. Agree, you should not present horrors, blood, maniacs and everything like that as something normal or even attractive. And even more so in the form of fun. And therefore, we will make more or less pretty products.

TOP 10 Halloween crafts

surprise gift

For work we need:

• box;
• Cardboard;
• Buttons;
• colored paper;
• Glue;
• Scissors;
• Pencils.

Mastering:

Everything! You can donate!

Candlesticks

In fact, this is a jar that is painted and decorated with an application on the theme of the holiday, and inside on hot paraffin the candle is attached.

Decorations are cut out of paper. It could be: Spider , cat, bat, owl, cobweb, etc.

If you light a candle in the evening, the shadows of these figures appear on the walls. It's easy to do, and the result is very interesting.

scary pumpkin

How to make a simple application transform?

1. Cut out a stencil of a pot-bellied pumpkin in cardboard (without a tail, stick the tail separately on cardboard).
2. Glue to the back of the cardboard orange color thin paper. Can be on front side draw characteristic stripes for a pumpkin.
3. Glue triangular eyes and a toothless smile on the back of the paper.

At first glance, this is an ordinary picture. Eyes and a smile will be noticeable if they are shown against the light.

Autumn candlestick

Paste the jar with colored leaves (napkins or tissue paper) in autumn colors. You can make the background monophonic: yellow, green, red. But you can also combine several colors. Just don't make it too bold.

Cut out figures of Halloween characters: a frightened cat, a bat, a rat, a ghost or owl . Glue them. Templates can be printed or circled from the screen - pictures increase by clicking:

Let dry completely and use as a candle holder. These jars resemble pumpkins and autumn apples. And from vegetables and fruits light radiates.

Web and spiders

Our cobweb and spider


A web of twigs and twine held together with hot glue. The spider's legs are made from poplar twigs, they have interesting joints that look like joints. And the body of the spider is made of hot glue. The legs were placed on parchment and hot glue was poured in layers.
Each layer was allowed to dry to make the spider plump.

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The bats

Bat

It is very easy to make the figure even and symmetrical if you cut a half by folding a sheet of paper in half.

It remains only to hang such decorations on a tree.

Bat

To create it you will need:

• Toilet paper sleeve;
• Black paint;
• Black paper;
• Scissors;
• Glue.

Instruction:

1. Paint the sleeve black.
2. When the sleeve dries, flatten it. Then straighten and press the edges from above and below, connecting the ends.
3. Cut out mouse wings.
4. Glue the wings.
5. Eyes draw or glue ready.

Now you can hang the mouse, let it “fly” under the ceiling!

Ghosts and Witches

Witch application

And again we use unusual ideas .

We will need:

• Cardboard;
• 7 ice cream sticks;
• Glue;
• Black, white, brown and yellow paper;
• Black marker;
• Green paint.

We construct:

1. Glue the sticks onto the cardboard base.
2. We paint them green.
3. Cut out the pointed hat.
4. We make the witch's hair.
5. We paint the face: eyes, smile. We glue the eyes.
6. The final touch is the broom!

A child can easily cope with this craft.

Ghost

Simple and fast:

And now you can hang it.

mischievous ghosts

For manufacturing you will need:

• Black felt;
• White cardboard;
• Ropes;
• Cotton balls;
• Glue and scissors.

Manufacturing:

1. From cardboard we cut out 2 figures of soaring ghosts.
2. We glue cotton balls on this base, completely covering it.
3. From felt or paper cut out the muzzle of a ghost. And fix the eyes and mouth on cotton balls.
4. We fix the rope with reverse side crafts.

Cheerful witch, I would even say benevolent in appearance

Let's make the job as easy as possible!

Our product will be composed of several geometric shapes:

• Large triangle (black);
• Rectangles:

1. 3 black (2 of them are the same size);
2. Green thin small;
3. 2 orange;
4. Brown thin and long;

• 3 white circles (one large, 2 small).

If you cut it all out, let's make a funny witch:

If you want, you can change something. For example, it is interesting if not a broom is in the hands of a sorceress, but Magic wand , etc.

Movable toy

Do you want the toy to move? Then let's start!

The main idea is that a witch should actually “fly” against the background of the moon.

1. paint over plastic plate in dark grey. Leave only the big circle. Color it yellow (or leave it white).
2. We collect a figure from a triangle (body), a circle (head), a small triangle (nose) and a rectangle (hat floor). We finish the eye. We glue hair from red yarn.
3. We make a broom. We tie pieces of yarn to an ice cream stick.
4. "Sit down" the figurine on the broom.
5. Another stick is painted in dark gray. And glue it from below vertically to the figure.
6. We make a horizontal slot in the plate (below the sun). We pass the stick into the slot.

If you move this wand, the witch will fly!

Pumpkin FROM FELT with treats

We will need:

• Black, green and orange felt (felt);
• Threads;
• Scissors;
• Needle.

Mastering:

1. Cut out an oval and a half oval from orange felt. Download printable template.
2. From black - 2 circles, a triangle and a smile.
3. We need a small green felt trapezoid.
4. We sew an oval and a half of an oval (it turns out like a pocket). And at the top - a green "tail".
5. Glue the eyes, mouth and nose to the oval.

Why did we make a pocket? To pumpkin the guys could get the candy treasures we hid!

Witch hat and jewelry

We will need:

• plastic plate;
• Cardboard;
• Glue;
• Paints;
• Tassels.

Mastering:

1. Turn the plate upside down. We make cuts in the middle of the plate so that it is convenient to bend the central part up.
2. We turn the cardboard into a cone. We fix (you can also use a stapler).
3. Glue the cone to the bent edges of the plate.
4. The piece is painted black.
5. Now you can decorate this hat as you wish.

The second option is to make cuts on the cone itself, and in the plate just cut a circle along the diameter of the cone, as in the photo below

Jewelery - hot glue earrings and pendant

Beautiful jewelry for a little witch is easy to make from hot glue. You will need a black glue stick and a hot gun. If there is no black rod, products can be painted with nail polish or acrylic paint. You will also need spare parts for earrings and a pendant, you can use old jewelry or buy new ones in a special store.

How to do:

1. Working with glue is very simple, just like drawing a cobweb with a regular felt-tip pen. To prevent the glue from sticking, draw on parchment or a flexible plastic board.
2. If there is a temperature adjustment, then choose the average so that the glue is not too liquid.
3. If you want to make the body of the spider more convex, then wait for the first layer to dry, then apply an additional layer of glue on the body

And a pendant in the form of a spider.

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Even though it's Halloween - a borrowed holiday, to which in our country some part of the population has an ambiguous attitude, we are glad to have the opportunity to once again have fun and prepare themed treats, entertainment and, of course, the corresponding "gloomy" atmosphere for relatives and friends.

Flickering lights, artificial web, pumpkins with faces, guests in the most unimaginable costumes - Halloween 2017 can be another pleasant memory in your memory box. To prepare for the holiday and decorate your home, you don’t need much: since mid-October, supermarkets and small shops offer various options frightening, but very cute decor. We propose to create it with your own hands, because the process of preparing for the holiday is no less important and exciting than the celebration itself!

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pumpkin lantern

So, the main symbol of All Saints Day - it's a pumpkin! To make a beautiful "pumpkin head" you do not need experience: in most cases, the first time comes out quite acceptable option. A pumpkin can be simply with carved eyes and a mouth, or it can be illuminated from the inside with a flashlight or a candle. You can also leave it standard natural, or cover it with any paint of your choice. Sometimes, instead of eyes and a mouth, patterns are cut out on a pumpkin, but for this you will need a good imagination and the ability to draw these same patterns, so for beginners, we suggest trying to make the traditional “pumpkin head” lantern attribute on your own.

First, wash the pumpkin, wipe it with a paper towel and cut off the top. Then the pumpkin must be carefully cleaned (in no case do not throw away the contents of the pumpkin, you can cook it after). Draw with a marker or pen the eyes, nose and mouth (with or without teeth). Take a sharp and thin enough knife with which it will be convenient for you to cut out the drawn parts of the “face”.

After the “head” is ready, place a small round flashlight or candle inside. Now your pumpkin will invitingly illuminate the "gloomy" dwelling. By the way, now we will continue to make it gloomy!

2

paper bats

Bats, which probably turn into vampires at night and drink human blood, in our case can be made from thick colored (black) paper or cardboard. To do this, you need to draw or find a stencil on the Internet. bat and print it. Then cut out the silhouette, circle it on paper, cut out the required number of night creatures and voila - A flock of bats has settled in your house!

Mice can be glued to window panes with tape, pinned to curtains with pins, or simply glued to each rope or thread and hung on a chandelier, picture or doorway.

By the way, black cats, spiders, witches and any other creatures can also be made from paper.

3

Ghosts from old sheets

What would Halloween be without ghosts? You definitely need to invite a couple to your home! Creating a ghost is even easier than a pumpkin lantern. You will need old white sheets, kitchen towels, or tissue napkins(depends on what size of ghosts you want to get). You can hang the fabric over the ceiling of the chandelier so that the ghost lights up (by the way, in this case, you can use a blue or red lamp to enhance the effect), or you can simply hang your ghost on an inverted large eggplant from drinking water (the main thing is that its bottom, which acts as the ghost's head was rounded). Then draw with a black marker on the fabric of the eyes and mouth. Elementary, right?

4

Syntepon web

Artificial cobwebs for Halloween from thematic stores are, in fact, a useless thing, because you can easily make a web for free from synthetic winterizer. The main thing is to masterfully stretch it somewhere in the corner of the room, over the paintings hanging from the chandelier, or on any surfaces where a real web could appear. But the spiders that you put on the web, you can buy in the market. Although, if you have patience and wire ... Even a child can make such a spider. Well, you can always go back to the paper version.

5

Ghosts from bottles and luminous garlands

We believe that on Halloween, the house should be a lot of ghosts. In addition, in order to save electricity and create a mystical atmosphere, it is better to get by with candles and New Year's garlands-lights. By the way, they can be put in any container from which you can easily create a funny or scary face by painting with a marker. Any jar can be glued with paper and covered with paint, draw patterns or a face, and put luminous garlands inside.