How to easily make a garland for Halloween?
The Halloween garland is not only easy to make: it is also an inexpensive DIY decoration idea for a spooky interior! It is in fact possible to use many techniques to make it. Before heading to the “creative hobbies” section, always remember to take a look in your drawers: you might just find everything you need there!
Orange, black and white ribbons (the almost official Halloween colors) and a glue gun: that’s all you need to easily create the garland that will enhance the entrance mirror, the sideboard or the mantle of the chimney. If you don’t have a glue gun, opt for a stitch or simply… a staple!
The pennant garland immediately gives a more festive look to the decor! For Halloween, we rely on black paper, and we take the opportunity to display a message. In a short version like “Boo!” » for a small garland or in a longer version like “Happy Halloween” to decorate the wall above the sideboard, it’s up to you!
Paper is a pretty smart choice for making a DIY Halloween garland, because it’s easy to find pretty models to print online, which you just have to cut out and hang on a string. For a more chilled look, choose simple templates that you just have to transfer onto felt.
The Jack O’Lantern pumpkin remains the icon of Halloween. It is therefore a very good choice for making a paper or felt garland! You can use a needle to pierce these little monsters and create your garland, or use mini clips to attach them to a cord.
On Halloween night, it’s well known: the ghosts are out! They therefore constitute a perfect ornament for a DIY garland. Depending on your inspiration (and your patience!), it is possible to cut different models, or to use a single template. A regular white paper works perfectly. This can also be an opportunity to recycle an old magazine!
Simple, but not necessarily simplistic, the DIY Halloween paper garland! To spruce it up, think for example of fluorescent paint that glows in the dark (or Glow in the dark paint)! This type of paint is even available in different colors, including orange.
The model that will appeal to adults and children alike is the garland made up of little wool ghosts. To give more dynamism to this decoration, alternate the colors, or combine ghosts and pompoms or wooden beads!
The accordion garland: a basic that always has an effect
Classic Christmas decor, the accordion garland. It also works perfectly for Halloween! To make it, all you need is a sheet of A4 paper folded like an accordion (in 8 and lengthwise) and a pair of scissors.
Pumpkin, bat or ghost: you can create your own template or use a template found online.