Window decor for Halloween: Here’s 10 scary ideas to decorate your windows indoors and outdoors.
With Halloween window decorations, your home could be the most frightening house in the neighbourhood. Window decorations can make your home look like you’re hosting a party or as if you have an undead guest trying to escape.
One of the greatest things about Halloween window decorations is their versatility. These decorations can be made as simple or complicated as you wish. If you’re looking for something more elaborate, cling-on silhouettes or themed window stickers are great options. If you’re looking for something more creative, painted illustrations, indoor-outdoor visuals vignettes, or illustrations, are great options.
Decorations for Halloween windows
We’ve got ideas for you below, no matter if your goal is to add some creepiness to your home or make it look more haunted.
1. Create an indoor-outdoor look
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Halloween window decorations can be either indoors or outside, but you don’t have to choose one side to decorate.
These indoor-outdoor Halloween decorations offer more entertainment and variety than the traditional window decorations. This plush ghost can be placed inside or out, making it appear that they’re crashing through windows.
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2. Perform a “skeleton Takeover”
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Skeletons look cute when posed on the patio furniture as part of your Halloween porch decor, but if you’re looking for a more creative – and spooky – way to set up your skulls and bones this year, hang them from the windows of your home.
The idea is to make the skeletons appear like they are scaling your home’s side, with a few crawling through the windows. This look can be achieved by using the appropriate decor and tools.
‘It’s best to choose items that aren’t too heavy if you’re hanging them around the house,’ says Paula Boston, visual merchandiser at Festive lights(opens in new tab. “Use fishing lines to support extra weight. These lines are invisible and strong.
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3. Window boxes: Spook your neighbors
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Make sure that your windows look amazing when decorating Halloween windows. On one end, you can place a small set of mini pumpkins and add witches legs, a broomstick or other Halloween decorations.
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4. You can take the blinds off of your eyes
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Windows that look great shouldn’t be boarded up. You can celebrate Halloween!
To create an unattractive appearance around windows, lightweight boards can be attached to the frame. Shannon Morscheck(opens in new tab has, above.
You don’t need to nail boards to your home’s exterior or window frames. Attach the boards to separate wooden frames and place them above your windows. Large picture hanging strips(Opens in a new window)It is possible to remove it with minimal damage.
5. Hang paper bats
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You can take a page from the most-liked Instagram photos and make paper bats. You can decorate your windows with this subtle trick. To make it look like bats are fleeing from your window, hang cutouts on the windows’ interior. You can make your own from black construction paper, or purchase a set pre-made – these are Amazon’s top-selling bats(opens in another tab).
Pippa Blenkinsop states that paper bats can be adhered to the glass with double-sided adhesive, or the bats can hang in front of the windows using string and pushpins (or tape), if you don’t want to scratch the glass. Homes & Gardens‘ Content editor and stylist
6. Create a Halloween diorama
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Treat your windows like a Halloween diorama. For a more layered look, close your curtains to create a backdrop.
7. Have fun with silhouettes
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If you have a windowed storm door, silhouettes make a great Halloween door decoration. Use a large window-cling silhouette to make it look like the shadow of a witch is brewing up a spell, or a ghost is peeking through the curtains.
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8. Place jack-o-lanterns in the windows
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Window decor for Halloween can be either spooky and stylish. Case-in-point? Put jack-o lanterns on the windows and light them at night.
For a more dramatic look, you can skip the jack-o’-lantern face and go for something more graphic like drilling a series o holes around the pumpkin to create a luminary effect. You can display your best pumpkin paintings in the windows.
9. The window clings can be a fun way for the children to have some great time.
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Use window stickers to brighten up your windows for Halloween. They’re easy to apply and take down. You can simply peel the backing off and place them on your windows. Children can easily reposition the stickers, which makes it simple for them to be placed on windows throughout the year. Once you’re done, they will pop off, leaving no mess.
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10. Hang Halloween lights
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String lights used to be reserved for holidays and Christmas. This tradition is gaining popularity for Halloween. You can instantly make your home festive by hanging some orange string lights in front of your windows.
When installing lights, make sure safety is your top priority.
Paula Boston, a Visual Merchant at Festive Lights is Paula Boston. Safety should be taken into consideration when you hang lights and decorations outdoors. “Ensure that all extension cords are in good order and that lights are placed in accessible, but out-of-the way places – such as around doors and windows.
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You can create a silhouette for Halloween in your windows.
You can make your window silhouettes by hand if you prefer the silhouette style. You will need a piece or large of black cardboard or other cardboard with black paint and an art skill, or a stencil.
You can find free Halloween stencils online if you don’t have the former.Then print it out and trace it onto your black cardstock. Cut out the silhouette, and then tape it to your window. For night lighting, switch on some light bulbs in the vicinity where you have placed the silhouette.
What can I do to make my windows sparkle?
Lighting can transform your windows from inside to glow, regardless of whether they are used for silhouettes or illumination at night.
You can do this by shutting your curtains, as long as they are semi-sheer. However, you still have a lightbulb on. You can make the experience even more frightening by switching to an orange- or black lightbulb.
Strobe lights can be purchased that automatically turn on as night falls to add an extra dimension to your home. Place them in all windows of your home for an added creepy effect.
Window decor for Halloween: Here’s 10 scary ideas to decorate your windows indoors and outdoors.
