Say No to New: Scare Up What You Have This Halloween, Instead

Spook up your front porch in a snap (and for less than $10!) with this totally removable mummy makeover.

Haunt your home with this creepy-meets-cute mummified door. Just criss-cross your front door with sections of white crepe paper streamers, securing the ends with tape around the sides of the door so it can still easily open and close. Finish off your mummy makeover with a pair of oversized googly eyes.

Kids will love helping you craft these monstrous-looking tentacles that look kinda cute, but don’t be fooled. They’ve only got one thing in mind ... dinner!

Be the coolest house on the block this Halloween by using dollar store scores to turn a pop-up canopy into a friendly monster that's stocked with grab-and-go snacks and beverages for both adults and the littlest trick-or-treaters.

Friends may think twice before reaching for another pumpkin ale from this mummified beverage bin. Transform a galvanized tub into a beverage station that just so happens to moonlight as a googly-eyed mummy bartender.

Give a beverage tub an inexpensive Halloween makeover to serve up kid-friendly beverages to trick-or-treaters or your favorite little monsters.

Mix a little mischief into your Halloween decorations with these tiny winged charmers. Just add craft foam or card stock wings to mini fall pumpkins or gourds painted black and let kids give them a personality with painted-on eyes and a smile.

Our free bat template, scissors and black card stock are all you need to give your front door a batty transformation. You can keep it simple and just add a few flapping paper bats or really make Halloween magic and first cover the door in purple bulletin board paper and add a glowing city skyline.

Hit your local craft or dollar store for googly eyes in assorted sizes and shapes to give everyday objects big and small an ever-watchful gaze.

Add a little Halloween spirit to your kitchen counter. All you need is a large glass jar, basic craft supplies and a little imagination. This easy project is perfect to do with kids, and they'll love coming up with ideas for the terrarium's spooky scene.

Add a little personality to your planters with our tips for magicking a fall mum into a lucky black cat for less than $10 and right before trick-or-treaters or Halloween guests arrive.

Hanging Boston ferns are a front porch staple that are easy to transform into hovering aliens in time for Halloween. Our tutorial will help you inexpensively magic up a googly-eyed alien in a flash with craft-store materials that can be just as easily removed when All Hallows' Eve has passed.

Our DIY besoms, or witch's broomsticks, are so easy to magic up and use mainly items you can find on a walk through the woods. Prop a besom next to your front door or in your foyer, as if you just arrived home from a midnight ride, or craft a pair and use them to spook up your front porch planters.

Made from a twig, raffia and a scrap of paper, these diminutive brooms add an enchanting touch of whimsy to any Halloween get-together, plus they're a fun party favor that guests can take home with them.

Inexpensive (and removable) supplies give an everyday shade a creepy-crawly makeover that's only visible when illuminated. Learn how to craft this lampshade with a scary surprise, below.

Dollar store supplies, like oversized plastic bugs, hot glue and a little spray paint are all you need to create oversized specimen art. Watch our video and check out our tips for recreating this skin-crawling craft, below.

Welcome Halloween guests with the sweet aroma of candy-corn-filled hurricanes. To create them, place pillar candles inside clear glass hurricanes of different sizes then fill each hurricane, roughly halfway, with candy corn. For safety, be sure to blow out the candle before it burns below the candy.

Whether you're a fan of the candy or not, there's no denying the appeal of this sweet front door that upgrades a standard white paper pennant-style banner with painted-on bands of orange and yellow. Bonus: This candy-colored makeover works for Thanksgiving too, so just leave it up through Turkey Day.

Bright orange tow rope makes it a snap to craft a cheery orange fall wreath you can display from Halloween through Thanksgiving. Just swap out the saying on the mini pumpkins with removable vinyl letters for an easy holiday update.

If you have an old straw tote or purse laying around, you're one step closer to a front door decoration that you can easily customize for the quick succession of holidays — Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Bonus: Add vinyl house numbers for a personalized touch.

What’s worse than having all eyes on you? Having all oversized, monster-eyes on you! Recreate this all-seeing and mischievous monster door from colorful card stock, crepe paper and tape.

Break out the Christmas string lights a little early this year, then give them a look-at-me Halloween makeover with ping pong balls and a little craft paint. Drape the eyeball lights along your mantel, around a bathroom or foyer mirror or in any space where family or Halloween guests will gather.

Channel your inner spellcaster to transform a plastic cauldron into a wine dispenser, complete with a twinkling bonfire and swirling clouds of smoke.

Don't toss that old bottle. Instead turn it into sleek Halloween decor. To get the look: Thoroughly clean the glass; once dry, coat each bottle with one coat of spray primer and 2-3 coats of matte black spray paint. Add one of our free, printable potion labels (linked below) and display your potent potables as a group.

Grab a (clean) gardening glove and an old terra-cotta pot to craft this creatively creepy candy display.

Covered in wild green faux fur fabric and rimmed with a feather boa and pennant-flag teeth, a pop-up privacy tent becomes a not-too-spooky monster that brave trick-or-treaters can reach into for a treat. Simply prop up your candy bowl inside the tent for a fun, interactive (and socially distant) way to hand out Halloween candy.

In just a few steps, you can turn your own one-off dishes or thrift store finds into Halloween dinnerware you can display year after year. Note: Mod Podge (and most glues) aren't rated as food-safe by the FDA so these dishes are for display purposes only.

Food- and dishwasher-safe paint (plus a steady hand) make it easy to give basic white dinner plates a creepy-crawly Halloween makeover.

Spook-up your space in a pinch by decorating basic white pillar candles with ghostly faces made from adhesive black vinyl. The best part? Vinyl is easily removable, meaning your Halloween decor can vanish without a trace once the holiday is over.

Turn scrap wood into a gaggle of ghosts by painting each piece white, adding spunky poltergeist features, then distressing with a hand sander for a well-worn look.

Ensure trick-or-treaters find their way to your door by adding festive jack-o'-faces and battery-operated tea lights to your existing outdoor lanterns.

These billowing, tattered draperies made from budget-friendly cheesecloth will add an eerie atmosphere to your front porch or an interior doorway.

Use gauzy fabric and inexpensive cheesecloth to give your dining chairs a haunting, slipcovered silhouette for Halloween.

Is there anything more frightening than a family of inky spiders, crawling across all your kitchen appliances? Add arachnids to your fridge and stove but don’t be surprised if dinner guests lose their appetite. To create the little buggers, just snip the ring back off inexpensive plastic spider rings, then glue on a small magnet.

Using a basic machine and beginner sewing skills, you can easily make a pair of these spider web pillows to spook up your sofa this Halloween. Attach fuzzy white yarn to gray wool pillow covers with a sewing needle and white thread, then finish with plastic spiders for the ultimate spine-tingling effect.

Dust off last year's faux pumpkins and welcome trick-or-treaters with a litter of black cat pumpkins. These carve-free kitties are easy to craft, making them a fun project for older children or small kids with a little help from a crafty adult.

Pair your litter of pumpkin kitties with a bewildered witch you can make from items you likely already have on hand.

For a quick but frightening fix-up, fill lidded jars with water, green food coloring, rubber creatures (like mice, snakes, bats or insects), leaves or dried flowers to give any room the look of a mad scientist's lab.