Quick Halloween Decorating Guide

Quick Halloween Decorating Guide for the Entire House

If you’re planning hard for a Halloween party at home, chances are you are searching for spooktacular ways to decorate your abode. Here is of fun and spooky decoration ideas to spruce up the front yard, porch, living room, kitchen or other sections of your home.

Take on the front door and porch first

Your front door and porch set up the first impression on guests, so adding some Halloween vibe to these areas is absolutely vital. One of the simplest ways is pasting some scary Halloween decals to the front door. Setting up a pumpkin patch alongside dried corn stalks at your grand entrance will also do miracles. You can paint pumpkins or make jack-o’-lanterns and place them on the front porch. You can use Halloween wreaths for decoration. Consider a DIY Halloween wreath to save time and money. We suggest making a creepy doll or twig wreath if you have less time. You can find some really exciting DIY Halloween wreaths here for inspiration.

You can have creepy cobwebs, spiders, ravens, bats, witch-themed decorations etc., to haunt your porch.

Spook up your living room

Living room is the main space where guests will be spending most of the time. You can quickly spook up the living room with Halloween-themed cushion covers, rugs or by draping the furniture in white bedsheets to make the room look abandoned and haunted.

Pumpkins relate to Halloween, decorating with them adds a seasonal flavour to your living room. You can choose to carve the pumpkins or use jack-o’-lanterns to your liking and theme. Another trick that’s catching up is the use of empty wine bottles. A bottle can be turned into a mummy or a monster for decoration.

Halloween wreaths, some nifty props from the pound store, spooky photo frames and scary-bleeding candles can add to the eerie. Don’t forget to add a ‘Happy Halloween’ garland for a complete look.

Invite bad spirits into your bedroom

It is pretty exciting to decorate the bedroom for a horrifying experience. You can start by decorating with Halloween-themed bed sheets, cushions, pillows, and pumpkins of course. Wall decals and photo frames in line with the theme of the dead will spook up the bedroom for the All Hallows Eve.

Put some cute or scary Halloween props on shelves – these could be spiders, webs, ravens etc

Do not forget the lights. The spookiness can be easily intensified with the use of decorative lighting.

Get your kitchen ready for Halloween It’s time to bring out that collection of spooky cookware and display it creatively on the shelves and nooks of your kitchen. A dining table decked with themed tableware, candles, flowers, and spooky dishes will be an inviting centerpiece for guests. Halloween-themed dish towel to wipe plates and gut-wrenching food to send shivers down your guests’ spine will add grim to the ghastly presentation.

Add ghastly feel to the bathroom

When decorating your home for Halloween, you can’t afford to miss out on your bathroom. It is the area where you can experiment and bring out your creativity. You can work on a witch-themed bathroom or set up a murder scene easily. Those with less time to spare can use Halloween-themed curtains, towels and floor mats to achieve the spookiness.

A bubbly bathtub with colored water can be made possible. There are endless possibilities to use spiders, bugs, bats, and other Halloween props in the bathroom.

Don’t hesitate to display your creativity outdoors

Turning plain white sheets into hanging ghosts is also a quick and inexpensive way to set up a hostel of ghosts in the backyard. A witch-themed scene or some crafty take with pallet wood can make an attractive addition too.

The trees and plants in the garden are readymade props you can use in Halloween decorations. Simply putting large eyes to a tree or a shrub can do a fancy trick to scare the kids. A signboard reading danger and fright at the front gate or on the fence is a done deal.

Bristol production studio sells hit comedy animation to leading USA networks

Bristol independent production company Wildseed Studios has agreed a deal that will see its hit comedy animation about the trials and tribulations of UK secondary school life air on two of the USA's biggest networks. Narrated by Kaiser Chiefs frontman and The Voice UK judge Ricky Wilson and starring Dylan Llewellyn (Derry Girls), Dodo will be available to view on HBO Max and Cartoon Network in 2022.

The 20-episode series, originally commissioned by Sky Kids and produced by BAFTA-winning, Bristol-based Wildseed Studios, is a funny, relatable and heart-warming portrayal of everyday school life in the UK as experienced by 11 year-old Joe Connolly, voiced by Dylan Llewellyn.

The series is based on multi-award-winning film and YouTube hit Not The End of the World, by British creator and series director Jack Bennett, which he made while in his final year at the University of the West of England, where he was discovered by Wildseed.

Much of the inspiration for the series comes from Jack's own time at Gordano School, Portishead, with one of the characters even named after one of his favourite teachers.

The licensing deal with WarnerMedia Kids & Family, brokered by kids' and family entertainment distributor CAKE, will see Dodo hero Joe's very British adventures reach new audiences in the U.S. as he navigates the dramas and pitfalls of his first year at secondary school. With new situations and embarrassments around every corner, small events mean big drama for Joe, as he tries to fit in, make new friends, girlfriends and even loses his school trousers. But Joe has best friends Frisbo, Pete and Lily at his side, helping him realise that each challenge is really not the end of the world as he triumphs over adversity and survives another school day.

Wildseed Managing Director Miles Bullough said: "We are thrilled to be able to share our much-loved new comedy animation series Dodo with new audiences in the U.S. Very British in both its humour and its hero, we are confident Jack's characters and stories will resonate and amuse viewers in the US as it has done here in the UK."

Dodo is produced by Helen Stern (Gumball) with the support of Ben Ward (Horrible Histories) on scripting and with executive guidance provided by Wildseed's Head of Kids and Animation Sarah Mattingley.

The series was commissioned by Lucy Murphy, Director of Kids Content at Sky UK & Ireland, and Exec Produced for Sky by Estelle Hughes, Commissioning Editor, Sky Kids.

Multi award-winning Wildseed Studios specialises in ideas that will appeal to audiences below 30 and in finding and nurturing new talent. Its Submissions Portal, inviting creators to submit a project in live action or animation, is open to receive submissions throughout October. The team will review all ideas and successful will receive up to £10K each to develop their idea with the support of the team at Wildseed Studios. For more information, visit www. wildseedstudios.com/submissions