How to Make Halloween Specimen Jars and Candles

Halloween is just around the corner and if you still have Halloween décor shopping left to do, you will love this DIY. Create spooky candles at half the price right in the comfort of your home. Creating spooky candles and fun apothecary jars or specimen jars is a fun activity for the kids to keep them busy over the weekend.

Watch a Halloween Specimen Jars Video from Martha Stewart:

Visit the video link: How to Make Halloween Candles  & Halloween Specimen Jars

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Spooky Halloween Candles Materials:

White pillar candles

White tissue paper

Spray glue

Printer

Hair dryer

Halloween Candles Directions:

1. Search the internet for some spooky Halloween graphics and clip art. Choose images like bats, skulls, spiders and ghosts. Resize the images on your computer according to the size of your candles. You can play around with images and even use your creativity to create a collage of these graphics on your candles.

2. Next, stick your tissue paper onto some printer paper with the help of spray glue and trim the edges. Remember to use a very light spray of glue, this is to ensure that the tissue paper does not crumple in the printer if printed on its own. Set the paper in the printer such that that the graphics are printed on the tissue paper.

3. Once the graphics are printed, carefully peel off the tissue from the printer paper. Cut the graphics as close as possible.

4. Place the cut images on your candle. The tissue paper will stick easily because of the leftover glue. Finally, pull out your hair dryer and turn it on the hot setting. Hold the hairdryer close to the image for a few minutes. The candle wax will start melting slowly with the heat and the image will easily set in with the wax. Smooth the melted edges and let it solidify again.

5. The edges will disappear and the picture will appear as though it is a part of the candle.

Set the candles on your mantel and decorate around it with other spooky Halloween decorating ideas. Once you have mastered the final step you can experiment with old vintage photographs, much more intricate graphics and on different colored candles.

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Halloween Decor: How to Bring Colors into Your Interiors

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Black and white combined with cheerful orange and shades of wooden brown color will brighten up your Halloween decoration. Let’s take a look how to incorporate these colors into your interiors and create a scarily charming atmosphere:

Create Drama and Mystery with Black

Black creates a dramatic and mysterious aura that perfectly catches the spirit of Halloween. To create a focal point, decorate an entire room with black color! It will create a nice contrast if you choose to use light and fun colors in other rooms of your home.

Keep in mind that an entire black room should have plenty of lighting. Colorful furniture pieces, artworks, or a fireplace in that room will also create a nice contrast with the black theme.

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Play with Orange and Black Accents

A combination of black and orange colors looks energetic and inviting. However, both are strong colors and using them as a base can seem too powerful. So, you can keep gray or brown as the base color and use orange and black as accent colors. The entire color palette will blend easily with each other, create a harmonious look, and exude and a positive energy.

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Choose a Black & White Vintage Style

If you want your Halloween decor to resemble a beautiful vintage style, keep the black and white color scheme. Creative wall decor, candle holders, lamp shades, Halloween accessories like pumpkins, spiders, owls, witch hats, etc., party foods, and other things in black and white colors are excellent Halloween decorations. Add a bit of fun with accents in orange, brown, red, or green color.

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The combination of these colors into the Halloween decor of your home will create a balanced and harmonious look. The mysterious black will be toned down with the use of elegant white while orange will feel warm and cheerful.

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Scare with Scarecrow and Ghostly Balloons

A scarecrow mascot is kind-of common but still effective Halloween decor item. Place one near the gate of the yard to greet the guests! Create the body with lumber, one as the main post, one for shoulders, and four for arms. Secure the joints with wood glue. Use a dry or plastic gourd as the head, a small plastic ball as the nose, and googly eyes to make the eyes. Use an old overcoat and a scarf to cover up any grotesque handiwork. The scarecrow can be accompanied by some flying ghosts, which you can make with balloons and gauze fabric. Just draw face on the balloons with a marker and cover them with pieces of white fabric. Now, let them fly in your yard!

Frighten with White!

Sometimes, using black and dark colors for your Halloween decor becomes too mainstream. So, think of something new instead. If you want, you can create a spooky feel with white and lighter shades too! Place bunches of white flowers in white or cream-colored apple baskets. Keep those baskets in your yard and surround them with white gourds and pumpkins. To make it more attractive during nighttime, use LED votives in between and around these baskets and hang a few lanterns from a nearby tree.

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Spook the Trees!

If your yard has trees, do not waste the chance to decorate them in a scary way. Trees without any leaves will be even better to make ghostly decorations. Adorn the trees with pumpkin jack-o’ lanterns, a number of faux black crows, and LED candle lanterns. Use Styrofoam pumpkins or orange tissue paper balls with facial features glued on them as jack-o’-lanterns. Be sure not to over decorate!

Decorate the Fences and Bushes

Buy a number of Styrofoam pumpkins and glue cutouts of skeletons on them. Place them sporadically throughout the yard and around the fences. Place a few faux black cats among them. Look spooky, right? If you have bushes in the yard, make them scary with some spooky eyes. Cut shapes of eyes from cardboard tubes and place plastic glow stick inside them. Tuck the eyes in bushes and scare the hell out of the passersby!

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These cleaver Halloween decor ideas are definitely unique if you can complement them with your crafty skills. These tricks will not only help you making some one-of-a-kind decorations but will also save loads of your money. Your neighbors will surely envy and appreciate your yard’s decor this Halloween.

What’s your budget-friendly decor idea for this Halloween?