Peek into your backyard and your art-supply drawer -- odds are you have everything you need to make this bat mobile.

Transform your living room into a decrepit dwelling by hanging ragged-looking spiderwebs made by pinning, snipping, and tearing cheesecloth.

Glow-in-the-dark glitter gives this Halloween decoration its one-of-a-kind look.

Arrange synthetic pumpkins on a tiered cake stand and add gothic candlesticks and black candles shrouded in spider webs for a haunting centerpiece.

Fill old-style specimen jars with water, and add enough food coloring to produce a suitably supernatural tint. Arrange lotus pods, poppy pods, and coneflower heads within. No evil will darken your doorstep with these eerie elixirs on display.

Hair-raising party decorations don't need to be costly or fussy. You can make these frightening flourishes with some inexpensive craft supplies in just a few minutes.

Use double-sided tape to place these cats where guests might least expect to find them -- whether they're ready to jump out of two framed prints or hiding in the window.

Draw simple features onto inflated balloons with permanent marker; choose an assortment of geometric shapes that are easy to create freehand.

Shadows are emblematic of Halloween: dark and fleeting, and always lurking a step behind you. But decorating with them is impossible -- at least without black magic -- so use some black paper and a little craftiness to make silhouettes, and you'll get the next best thing.

How do you expect spiders to swarm on those clean windowsills? You need to set bait. Place small votives inside larger ones, then spin your spiders a glowing web.

Your visitors will shudder when they spot a bat-lined lampshade as part of your decor. Some of the paper cutouts are suspended from threads, while others are stuck inside the shade.

No need to bait your home with bugs to attract a scary swarm of bats like these; all that's required is tissue paper and a pair of scissors. Cutting the strings of shapes won't drive you batty, since the paper comes accordion-folded in its package. With black tissue paper, you can craft bats, cats, rats, or witches; orange makes great pumpkins, and white is perfect for skulls and ghosts.

Use a pumpkin incense burner to suggest the cozy scent of pie just out of the oven.

Cast an eerie glow with these papier-mache chandelier shades.

Glittered plastic skeletal parts create a suitably dramatic and unexpectedly artful ambience when set off by an oversize glass cheese dome.

The hallway table is laden with decorating tricks and Halloween treats. Bugs adorn whimsical, spray-painted pumpkins, which stand out against leaves handcrafted from green silk taffeta. Antique jars are filled with old-fashioned gum balls and stick candy, and a cake stand bears bags of jelly beans tied with silver ribbon.

These giant gothic lanterns will hang ominously over your buffet table.

The stairway in an entry hall is an appropriate spot to display graduated sizes of handmade paper jack-o'-lanterns.

Create Halloween decorations that shimmer by adding glitter to our witch, jack-o'-lantern, skull, spider, or owl templates.

Turn glittered stickers into shiny ornaments to hang from a dark, twisted Halloween tree for a creepy centerpiece that will last for years.

If that spooky, hundred-year-old dusty look doesn't come naturally, fake it with hot-glue cobwebs; we "spun" them over realistic-looking stuffed birds.

Sometimes you need more than a hand serving guests -- you need a head. Create a helping head to entertain your captive dining companions.

What better way to brighten Halloween's gloom than by dotting your windowsills with grinning -- or scowling -- hurricane lanterns?

This Halloween party centerpiece -- made of tea-dyed eggs and fishing lures -- is sure to make guests scream.

These shrunken heads, made from peeled, carved, and dried apples, are as spooky as the scariest Halloween masks -- and just as much fun to create.

All that glitters isn't gold; it's also orange, amber, and pink. Cast petite pumpkins in your favorite glittering fall hues for a magical Halloween display.

Adorn a painted branch with seasonal ornaments as well as tiny treat bags for guests to take home.

Think twice before you toss those used jars; give them a second life as cute Halloween decorations. Just paint them in pumpkin colors and give them funny faces.

As day turns to night, call on candles to cast an eerie glow throughout your home. When fierce silhouettes are propped above them, spectacular shadows dance across the walls.

It's always just a few minutes till the witching hour on the face of this pumpkin.

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Assembled from yarn, rope, and foam balls, these homespun pumpkin decorations are simple to make.

Cast a sinister glow over any setting with a cluster of white tapers dripping with "blood" (actually red candle wax). Fill a cup or a small pail with sand, and plant white candles inside so they stand upright. Light a red candle and tip it over the white candles so the wax drips down the tops and sides, being careful not to burn yourself. Let wax cool completely before removing candles from sand.

A hollowed out-pumpkin makes the a perfect vessel for displaying fall flowers. Lopsided pumpkins work best, because their stems don't interfere with the basket's handle.

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Plain candlesticks look positively creepy in critter-covered cobwebs. Cut a length of cheesecloth, and gently pull to make it look tattered. Drape cloth over candlesticks and mantel; add plastic spiders and leaves. Top candlesticks with bobeches -- collars that catch drips -- and insert tapers.

Turning a table into a coffin makes the room feel like a funeral parlor. Cover furniture with sheets to complete the ghostly look.

Invite some great minds to your next gathering. Dried cockscomb looks like brains, making this ingenious display easy to create. Find dried blooms online, or dry fresh ones by hanging them upside down for 2 weeks. Plan to use 6 to 8 stems per brain. Cut blooms off stems. With hot glue, affix flowers together, creating half of a brain. Make 2 halves; hot-glue together. Print and cut out paper labels; skewer on hat pins, and insert. Display brains in jars or under glass cloches.

A floral arrangement becomes positively frightening when covered in creepy cobwebs. To make the webs, cut a 5-inch section from inexpensive or damaged white panty hose, and pull apart until it becomes wispy and resembles cobwebs. Stretch the material over a cluster of dark blooms (we used crimson roses and dahlias, as well as some fiddlehead ferns). Set on a sideboard, or on a dining table as a centerpiece.

A selection of sunny sweets is even more tempting when displayed in glass containers with cheerful labels.

When the sun goes down, set a spooky scene with these dramatic lanterns made from simple supplies and our exclusive clip-art designs.

Give guests (and neighbors) a scare with curtains that reveal a scary figure lurking indoors.

This wreath might be too tempting to remain intact for long. To make it, you'll need 2 pounds of hard candy in twisted wrappers, an 8-foot length of embroidery thread, and a round wire wreath form that is 8 inches in diameter.

Eeek -- it's alive! Make a jack-o'-lantern talk using an old baby monitor.

These creepy, crawly paper mice are not so nice. Stick these unsavory critters on stair risers, baseboards, or any spot where they might give unsuspecting passersby a little jump.