Cheap,easy and different ways to decorate for halloween!

Have you ever wondered how to decorate for Halloween or any other occasion on a budget? I have and since Halloween is right around the corner I figured I'd share some tips on how to do that!

1. Scary Halloween man-Gather some old clothes such as a pair of pants, a shirt and some boots work good. Some rags and some sort of stick Oh and a mask. Stuff the pants fist with the rags (stuff it good , who likes a skinny ghost? Then put a good sized stick in the middle of the stuff pants. A broom stick works good for this! Put the shirt on over the stick and pants, stuff the shirt. Now if the stick is long enough you can put a mask on it or if it's short you can have the headless halloween man(or woman)I did this the last several years but duh , never took a pic of it.

2.Instead of carving pumpkins paint them! If you are a scrapbooker I am sure you have paints in your aresenol. You can do simple stripes, polka dots, white pumpkins are cool , some simple halloween characters like bats over a moon or something. It doesn't have to be complicated.

3.Creepy Crawly Spiders! If you have kids craft items in your house you might have everything to make these already. You need styrofoam balls,blank paint, glue, those chenille pipe cleaners and googly eyes. First paint the foam ball black. Let dry and then stick the pipe cleaners in there and bend, cut , shape to make the legs. Add googly eyes and your done. Easy!

4. Bloody hands-Need a cool banner or wall hanging? This one you just need red paint, you and a long piece of paper. Preferably the kind you can cut yourself at an art or paper store.
This is so easy and cool. Just get your hands all gooped up with paint(the more the better)
and pretend your in kindergarten again by handprinting that baby. The more paint you use it will drip down giving that bloody drippy hand look going on.

Other ideas, I haven't tried yet

Make a banner with your scrapbook supplies, use old white rags to make spiderwebs or ghouls.
Cut a big piece of cardboard into a tombstone, paint black, put different size boxes together , paint blank to make a haunted house.

Hope you got some good ideas, I am off to make some of these bad boys later!