Halloween Decorations from Recycled Materials

You don’t need to buy plastic stuff to have fun on Halloween! Get lots of decorations ideas in this week’s podcast. For ideas on Halloween costumes from recycled materials, check out last year’s Trashmagination Halloween podcast.

Also to see photos of these projects and many more Halloween decorations from recycled materials, check out the Trashmagination Pinterest board.

Halloween Candy Bowls from Recycled Materials

 

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Decorate your Yard with Halloween Decorations from Recycled Materials

Skeleton Halloween decorations from recycled milk jugs

Skeleton Halloween decorations from recycled milk jugs

Front Porch Halloween Decorations from Recycled Materials

Halloween wreath made from recycled black socks designed by Trashmagination

Halloween wreath made from recycled black socks designed by Trashmagination

Thread-and-nail skull decorations inspired by the blog A Beautiful Mess

Thread-and-nail skull decorations inspired by the blog A Beautiful Mess

 

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Indoor Halloween Decorations from Recycled Materials

This category of decorations is great if you are hosting a Halloween party. These could also be used to decorate your porch on Halloween night. A lot of these decoration ideas could also be good activity ideas for a Halloween party if you host a party with people who like to make crafts.

  • Haunted figurines – from Sadie Seasongood – She took old figurines and made them look haunted by painting them black and then giving them red eyes.
  • Spider’s web from a recycled doily – from Sadie Seasongoods – you stretch the doily on an embroidery hoop and add a little spider.
  • Ghosts from frosted glass light covers – from Sadie Seasongoods – If you go to a place like a Habitat for Humanity Restore, you can get them cheap. They look like ghosts when they are sitting on a shelf if you add eyes and a mouth. She puts glow sticks inside, but you could string reusable plug-in lights.
  • Graveyard terrarium – from the blog Just Crafty Enough – This is a variation on a popular craft which involves a recycled glass jar with a little scene inside, and usually some small plants. For this craft, you put a dried out branch that looks like a dead tree, a little gravestone made from Sculpey and dried hay along the bottom.
  • Bell Jar Spooky Display – the blog Craft Your Happiness shows how to make those old-timey looking jars – called cloches or bell jars – from recycled clear, two liter soda bottles. Inside the jars, they displayed pretend dragon eggs or bird models or other kind of creepy items.
  • Vitamin or Tylenol bottle to Potions bottle – It involves using a glue gun to add words like “Poison” or “Eye of Newt” and then you paint over that 3-dimensional stuff with layers of paint to make it look old.
  • Halloween silhouette lanterns – Paint a jar orange or cover it with tissue paper, then add a black silhouette. The blog called Le Coin de Mel shows silhouette designs that you could borrow.
  • Glow-in-the-dark Skeleton Cross-stitch – by Martha Stewart Living
  • Eye ball pom pom – By the Mr. P blog

 

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I’m still looking for broken or unwanted tents if you’d like to give them to me!

After this podcast aired, I designed a fun bat craft made from a recycled toilet paper roll and a black plastic frozen meal tray!

Bat craft from recycled toilet paper roll and frozen meal tray designed by Trashmagination

Bat craft from recycled toilet paper roll and frozen meal tray designed by Trashmagination

Bat craft from recycled toilet paper roll and frozen meal tray

Bat craft from recycled toilet paper roll and frozen meal tray designed by Trashmagination

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