It’s time to get your Halloween DIY on! Speaking as someone who is severely allergic to craft projects, I understand that you may think you have to spend your whole paycheck at Target to have a spooktacular Halloween. But you don’t.
As Halloween quickly approaches, my friends at Great Wolf Lodge shared five Halloween DIY décor tips to easily bring the holiday home. And for those who want to make this an extra special Fall, you can enjoy the resort’s Howl-O-Ween celebration. Yes, it is still happening in 2020. You can create a howling good time anywhere this year!
Top 5 Halloween DIY Tips
Great Wolf Lodge’s Director of Kids Experience, Lindsay Rauls, who oversees the Howl-O-Ween celebration and its crafts activities gives the following five best tips for some simple, easy Halloween DIY.
1. Start with a theme.
You can make yourself go crazy trying to do every spooky thing you’ve ever seen. Just narrow it down and pick one Halloween theme and play it up throughout your whole space. Will it be ghastly ghouls? Spooky spiders? You decide!
2. Save money by recycling old items.
After you’ve picked your theme, there’s no need to go out and spend hundreds of dollars to bring it to life. Try to repurpose items you already have (or can find in a secondhand store) with spray paint to make them feel fun and festive. When you up-cycle items, you can help them be seen in a whole new light with just a little creativity. Plus, it is cheap!
3. Use decorations to create an overall Halloween aesthetic.
One unique trick is to try to hang things from the ceiling to create dimension in a room. It can make things extra scary.
4. Go minimal.
You don’t have to make your house look like a Halloween fairy threw up on it. Sometimes, minimal effects can be just as spooktacular, if done in the right way. Stop stressing yourself out and just keep it simple.
5. Let someone else do the work.
If just one night of Halloween isn’t enough for you and your little goblins, grab your costumes and join in the fun for Howl-o-ween. Costumes and family water park come together during Great Wolf Lodge’s Howl-O-Ween celebration at all Great Wolf Lodge locations across the country, including Atlanta!
Lasting the whole month of October, the kid-friendly festivities include costume parades, scary-silly story times and monster bash dance parties, making for the most spooktacular Halloween. Bring your pack to blend right in with the “wolf pack,” alongside the characters Violet, Wiley and Oliver. It’s a safe & fa-BOO-lous time at the lodge.
[…] I am someone who doesn’t have the patience to spend lots of time decorating. I also don’t think you have to spend your whole paycheck at Target to have a spooktacular Halloween. You can use simple things you have around the house to make some pretty fabulous decorations. I got 6 tips from an expert and wrote about them here. […]