Halloween is nearly upon us and it’s the perfect time to try out some simple paper crafts to decorate your home spook out your neighbours and guests!
Here are my favourites:
- Paper shadow mice
There are some fantastic Halloween crafts to be found on the Martha Stewart site but these simple paper mice are my favourite.
- Paper pumpkins
You can find the tutorial for these simple and effective paper pumpkins over at
- Cloud of paper bats
Bat silhouettes are easy to do and if you make enough of them they can be used really effectively:
Check out this simple template from Country Living.
- Paper bag puppets
Made by painting basic brown paper lunch bags- these look like they’d be so much fun to do! There’s a handy little tutorial here.
- Hungry house!
Why not try this idea for decorating the outside of your house: just cut big triangles of paper and turn the porch entrance into a giant mouth!
Have a happy Halloween!