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20 DIY Halloween Garlands to Make This Festive Season

Garland garland everywhere, not a thread to string
Atish SharmaBy Atish SharmaOctober 22, 20248 Mins Read
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Even though Halloween is days away, I feel the time is running out for us to finalize all the preparations, including decorating homes with garlands. Talking of garlands, you can either buy these not-so-fancy items from online stores or make them at home on your own. Whether you are a college student or a homemaker, these easy DIY Halloween garlands will surely make your space look festive-ready and save you a lot of money, which you might have otherwise spent on less inspiring off-the-shelf garlands.

Paper Bat Garland

DIY Halloween Bat Garland
Image: Homecrux/Rishik Sharma

I will be starting the list with a Halloween bat garland. A DIY bat garland will be a wonderful addition to your Halloween house party and would intrigue kids for sure. To make such DIY bat garlands, you would require a black card stock alongside other accessories. Once crafted, it can placed on your front door, strung on your walls, or anywhere you prefer.

Tutorial: Homecrux

Yarn Pumpkin Garland

Yarn Pumpkin Garland for Halloween 2023
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Yarn pumpkin garland is one of the easiest DIY crafts for Halloween decoration. Easy to make, the garland not only elevates the overall look of the wall but also adds aesthetics to the home. For the DIY process, you’d require orange yarn, green yarn, and crochet (optional). Once ready the yarn pumpkin garland is ready to adorn your home during the festive season this fall.

Tutorial: Homecrux

DIY Bat String Light Garland

DIY Bat String Light Garland by Bright Women
Image: Bright Women

Continuing with bat garlands, another beautiful entry making the list is a DIY bat string light garland. If you plan on decorating your house with a lighted bat, this is a picture-perfect DIY you should be looking forward to. It not only adds a batty element to your house but also lights up your home at the same time. You would require a white card stock, a bat template, and a string light to complete the project. The next step will include you to print bat templates and cutting out those bat shapes to insert bat lights in them.

Tutorial: Bright Women

Mini Ghost Halloween Garland

Mini Ghost Halloween Garland by CURBLY
Image: Curbly

Moving aside from bats, it’s time to add ghosts to the party. Use a cheesecloth, plastic golf balls, and some hot glue to craft cute-looking ghosts that can be strung anywhere from the entrance to the living.

Tutorial: Curbly

Beware Halloween Garland

BEWARE Halloween Garland by Uncommon designs
Image: Uncommon Designs

‘Happy Halloween, BOO, Spooky’ are some of the more common banner garlands used during Halloween. However, if you plan on being a little different from your neighbors, try ‘Beware’ Halloween garland this festive season. Chipboard letters, paper doilies, black glitter, black acrylic paint, and glue are some common items you’d be required to make in this DIY. In my personal opinion this would suit your fireplace and can even be placed on any door you please.

Tutorial: Uncommon Designs

Paper Cup Halloween Garland

Paper cup garland DIY
Image: Homecrux/Rishik Sharma

Jazz up your Halloween mantle with a paper cup Halloween garland that is super easy to make and even easier to place. All you need to do is collect some disposable cups and glue a pair of googly eyes onto the side of a mini paper cup. The next step would require you to punch a small hole in the bottom of the cup to make it easy to hang string lights in between them.

Tutorial: Homecrux

Also Read: 100+ DIY Halloween Wreath Ideas for Front Door and Windows

Sugar Skull Garland

Sugar Skull Garland
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Skulls constitute a major part of our Halloween decoration. We have already discussed multiple ways to display skulls and skeletons on Halloween and now I’ll be briefing you on how one can make a spooky skull garland. It would require you to use paper plates, ribbons, and other stationary items like a ruler, scissors, and glitter to make a skull garland that you can hang anywhere you want.

Tutorial: Create Craft Love 

Candy Corn Garland

Candy Corn Garland by Festive Fetti
Image: Festive Fetti

Kids absolutely love candy corn and I am pretty sure they would like a self-made candy corn garland too. Hand them yellow and orange paper doilies, and a few stationary items and let their creativity flourish next. You should guide them with steps like punching and stringing a thread through the paper and let them do the rest. It will be great if candy corn garland is made to hang on their room doors.

Tutorial: Festive Fetti

A Pumpkin and Bat Garland

A pumpkin and bat garland by Pjs and Paint
Image: Pjs and Paint

Well, you can’t literally string a pumpkin around your wall, but what you can do is try some paper pumpkin art. A pumpkin and bat garland is easy to make. You’d require orange and black construction paper and cut it using scissors to make bat and pumpkin shapes and decorate your room by stringing them up as a garland.

Tutorial: Pjs and Paint

Spider Paper Garland Cutouts

Spider Paper Garland Cutouts by one little project
Image: one little project

Whether you have tried it in the past or not but DIY spider garland won’t be a bad idea for this Halloween. The process is simple. You can make shapes or you can draw them freehand. All you need is some colored construction paper, a pair of scissors, and some tape, you’re ready to rock.

Tutorial: One Little Project

Black Cat Garland

Black Cat Garland by Say Yes
Image: Say Yes

We have talked a lot about bats, now it’s time we bring cats to the fore. Cats just like bats are associated with evil and cat cutouts serve as a perfect Halloween decoration. The cat garlands can be made using precut cat faces, straws, scissors, tape, and craft glue. You need to cut the straws in third glue it as whiskers on cat faces and finally thread the string to hang it around the house.

Tutorial: Say Yes

Ghost Garland DIY

Ghost Garland DIY
Image: Homecrux/Hitesh Kumar

This inexpensive DIY ghost garland Halloween will have your house dressed up in a Halloween spirit. You will require cheesecloth, cotton balls, black paint, scissors, and twine. Make cotton balls and cut cheesecloth in a bunch of tiny rectangles. Then stuff cotton balls and secure them with twine.

Tutorial: Homecrux

DIY Jack-o’-Lantern Garland

Jack-o’-Lantern Garland for Halloween
Image: Homecrux/Hitesh Kumar

Sometimes all you need is to make a pumpkin garland. It is effortless and cheap. All you need are two sheets of foam paper, hot glue, a craft knife, jute yarn, a black marker, and hand-drawn Jack-o’-lantern templates. Begin by cutting adorable pumpkins out of the foam sheets using the stencil, drawing faces on them with a black marker, and gluing them onto the jute yarn. And your DIY Jack-o’-lantern is ready to give a friendly spook to your guests.

Tutorial: Homecrux

Ping-Pong Ball Jack-o’-Lantern Garland

Ping Pong Balls Garland
Image: Homecrux/Hitesh Kumar

Running out of time to make something exaggerated for your Halloween decorations? No worries, this easy, affordable, and quick ping-pong ball Jack-o’-lantern light-up garland is what you need. You will require two dozen orange ping pong balls, string lights, and a black Sharpie. Follow the instructions and see for yourself how adorable it turns out.

Tutorial: Homecrux

Paper Witch Garland

Witch Garland
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Halloween without a little wickedness is not possible. This paper witch garland will bring the essence of spells and magic into your house. To make this effortless craft, you need a stencil, witch silhouette, and spooky-looking witch house cut-out. Now, string everything onto a thread and find an ideal spot in your house to hang it.

Tutorial: Homecrux

DIY Paper Pumpkin Garland

DIY Paper Pumpkin Garland
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Adorn your fireplace mantel, an empty wall, windows, and a door in Halloween look with this DIY paper pumpkin garland. You will need craft paper in three colors, a craft knife, a pencil, scissors, and a twine. Just cut the pumpkin shapes, thread them onto twine, and beautify your space.

Tutorial: Homecrux

Newspaper Ghost Garland

Newspaper Ghost Garland
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Halloween decorations can cost you a fortune but not this newspaper ghost garland. You only need a bunch of old newspapers and a little bit of time. Just fold the newspaper into neat rectangles, draw a sheet ghost outline, and cut it out. You can cut as many ghosts as you want, draw the features, and string them together with a needle and thread.

Tutorial: Homecrux

Boo Garland

Boo Garland
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You can easily craft this boo garland using a bunch of supplies. You need to make some banner cut-outs from burlap ribbons, cut out the wording Boo out of black sparkle paper, and three ghosts from white felt. For the next step, you need to glue letters onto the burlap ribbons using a hot glue gun, and then glue the ghosts.

Tutorial: Homecrux

DIY Pink Bat Garland

DIY Pink Bat Garland
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Add some vibrant touches to your Halloween decorations with this DIY pink bat garland. Just make an adorable bat stencil in different sizes and trace them on a pink felt sheet. Cut the bats out and glue them onto a thread.

Tutorials: Homecrux

Cute Paper Pumpkin Garland

Paper pumpkin garland
Image: Homecrux/Rishik Sharma

Try this lovely paper pumpkin garland to accentuate your Halloween decorations with a festive touch. It can be easily done in less than 15 minutes, you just need colorful papers, scissors, and a pencil. After it is done, you can animate any boring space in your house.

Tutorial: Homecrux

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Atish Sharma is a seasoned journalist, theatre director and PR specialist based in Shimla, India. He boasts over eight years of experience in print, electronic, and digital media, and has played pivotal roles as a field journalist at Hindustan Times. When not weaving a web of words at Homecrux or scouring new tiny houses, you'll discover him immersed in cinema, savouring cult classics, interviewing production designers or embarking on a quest for existential truths, far beyond his fantasy of being a cowboy who never rode a horse.

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