That
spooky time of year will soon be here! With the crisp autumn air and
colorful trees, Halloween is the perfect time to enjoy the beauty of your
sunroom, porch or patio. To add some haunting charm, here are 5 easy decor
ideas for you and your trick-or-treaters to enjoy. Best of all, these
decorations can be reused or repurposed - adding sustainable beauty to
your living space.
These are just a few ways to add spooky beauty to your sunroom, porch, or patio this Halloween.
- Candy Corn Wreath- Using a hot glue gun, attach a loop of ribbon to the
back of a foam wreath from your local craft store. Attach candy corn
with hot glue to completely cover the front and sides of the wreath. Once
dry, hang on a covered patio or in your sunroom. (Repurpose by using through
Thanksgiving and hanging again next Halloween, or by gently pulling
the candy corn off and hot gluing small ornaments on the wreath for
Christmas, or Easter eggs for Easter.)
- Ghost Posts- Buy a 4"x6"x8' wooden post from your local
hardware store. If you don't own a saw, ask the store to cut it into 4
equal or varying lengths, depending on if you want all your ghosts to be
the same height. Stand the posts upright and paint them white (leftover
house paint from your garage works perfectly). Once dry, use black acrylic
paint or permanent markers to add ghost faces to the posts. Stand the
ghost posts in a cluster on your sunroom, porch, or patio. (Repurpose by using again next
Halloween or redecorating the posts as snowmen for Christmas or bunnies
for Easter.)
- Traffic Cone Candy Corn- Buy
2 or 3 orange traffic cones from your local hardware store, office supply
store, or discount store, along with a tube of yellow and a tube of white
acrylic paint. Paint the bottom third of each cone yellow and the top
third of each cone white, leaving the middle third orange. Once dry,
display in a cluster or scattered throughout your sunroom, porch or patio.
(Repurpose
by using next Halloween, or using as safety cones for kids
playing outside, or repaint with dark green paint and dot remaining yellow
and white paint onto the green cones to make Christmas trees.)
- Pumpkin Planters- Buy 2 large pumpkins and an array of fall colored
flowers. Hollow out the pumpkins and place a cup, bowl, or vase that
doesn't exceed the height of the pumpkins into the hollowed pumpkins. Fill
those containers with water and arrange the flowers inside the pumpkins.
Place on either side of your sunroom, porch or patio door, or anywhere
that you like to have flowers. For extra frightful delight, use a
permanent marker to add jack-o-lantern faces to the pumpkins, or wrap each
pumpkin with a ribbon of black lace. (Repurpose
by roasting the pumpkin seeds, moving flowers to a tabletop and carving
the pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern on Halloween, or using your containers
for endless other purposes.)
- Bat Cluster- Buy sheets of black craft foam from your local craft
store. Print a picture of a bat off the internet. Trace and cut bats out
of the foam sheets. Hang bats with tape in a cluster on your sunroom wall
or dangle these waterproof bats using string, twine, fishing line, etc.,
from a porch or patio awning. (Repurpose
by using next Halloween or by cutting the bats into small eyes, noses,
mouths, and other shapes for any number of craft projects.)
These are just a few ways to add spooky beauty to your sunroom, porch, or patio this Halloween.
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