Holiday Home Tour: Halloween
While Halloween isn’t exactly my favorite holiday, it’s grown on me over the past couple of years as the people I live with REVEL in the Halloween spirit. I mean, as far as Landon’s concerned, the spookier, the better! (Whose child is this?!)
While I don’t exactly share in their affinity for scary, I do enjoy any reason to celebrate Fall.
To make up for the lack of festivities in 2020, we busted out the holiday decor in early September and haven’t looked back since. At this rate, our Christmas decorations will be up by November 1. Full steam aheaaaaad!
Topping the list of my favorite Halloween decorations are these handmade haunted houses that the kids and I painted a few years back. I bought the wooden houses at Michaels for a few bucks each, chose a limited color palette of paints, and we went to town! We also added candy corn-colored brush bottle trees, mini pumpkins, hand-cut bats, and fairy lights for extra coziness. Now that I’m looking at them, I want to make even more!
Speaking of handmade, these paper bats add festive flair with minimum effort. Inevitably they fade or rip so I just whip out a handful of new bats each year. Paper, scissors, tape, done.
My dad is an amazing potter and I’ve been the lucky recipient of many of his designs, including these adorable ceramic pumpkins!
We sprinkle them throughout the house during Halloween and when the season is over, they go back to John’s office to be displayed year-round. They’re just too cute to pack away.
Landon spelled BOO with these brass letters all by himself (he just turned five) so now I feel the need to display them here forever like a proud mom.
I mentioned before that we stash away holiday books on a high shelf in the kids’ playroom and then bring them out when the season rolls around. I keep them in a basket and they get cycled through at bedtime.
It’s hard to believe there’s only one week left of October! I’m going to go live it up by lighting candles and listening to Fleet Foxes on repeat.
Happy Halloween!
