Halloween Window Decorating Ideas

Halloween is about more than the spooks and trick-or-treating; it’s about having fun.  Kids and adults alike get to have fun with this holiday, so why not let your Halloween decorations show some of your fun personality?

Silvery, Halloween Spider Webs

To give your windows a bit more of a Halloween Diva effect, go with the sparkly silver decorations. One type that you can make on our own is so simple that a kindergartener could do it.

First, take a piece of contact or wax paper and cut it to the size you want it. Next, use Elmer’s glue and make a spider web design with the glue. Once you have made the design, cover the glue with silver glitter and let it sit, for a day, to dry.

After it has dried, shake off the excess glitter in your garbage or on to another spider web and then hang the web in your window. You can go with one or two larger webs in the window, or create a different Halloween effect by placing a grouping of smaller webs in one of the corners.

Crepe Paper Spider Webs

For more of a fun childish look to your Halloween window, create a crepe paper spider web.  This web will cover the entire window as each of the base string will be attached to the window frame.

When you attach the base stings to the window frame, don’t put too many of them in, or it will look like a huge black blob and not a spider web.  Having strings from one corner to the opposite one for all four corners, as well as a strand that is in the middle of the window horizontally and another one that is in the middle vertically should be all you need.

After attaching the base strings, take the rest of the crepe papers and start to weave it through each of the base strings around in a spiral, so that it has the look of a weaved spider web.  Start on the outside edge and work your way in until you reach the center; stapling the crepe paper together now and then so that it is more secure.

Glow in the Dark Halloween

A quick trip to the craft store for two items will help you bring this next Halloween window decoration to your home.  With just some special glow-in-the-dark paint for windows and a sponge, paint brush you can create a Halloween window with glow-in-the-dark pumpkins, skeletons, or just Halloween words.

What you create is up to you and the level of your creative talents to make this Halloween window.