1. Office: Concentrate on smaller decorations for your office, and make sure you find out what is acceptable for the workplace environment and your company in particular. Some companies, for example, encourage their employees to decorate their workspace and even hold contests for best decorations, while others may be more low key, expecting employees to avoid anything that might distract others in the working environment.
2. Home: If you are decorating your yard, consider going big and grabbing people’s attention. You might want to make ghosts to hang from trees, and create a large graveyard scene with cardboard graves. If you are decorating the inside of your home, your decorations will likely be more tame and focus on paper decorations to attach to walls and doors.
3. Party: Making cheap decorations for a Halloween party will depend on what type of party you are planning; whether it will be at your home, an office party or a party at school. However, arts and crafts will likely be one of your focus points.

1. Browsing Halloween websites
2. Looking through craft magazines such as Martha Stewart Living
3. Asking your friends or children for ideas

Some decorating ideas you may want to consider include:

1. Spiders and Spider webs
2. Ghosts
3. Bats
4. Skeletons
5. Pumpkins
6. Gravestones

1. Scissors
2. String
3. Tissue paper
4. Glue
5. Garbage bags
6. Coat Hangers
7. Paper bags
8. Crayons or Magic Markers
9. Sheets
10. Newspaper

For supplies you do not have, consider going to discount stores like the 99 Cents Store, Walmart or even a garage sale. If you want to plan a year in advance, you can get great discounts the day after Halloween. Supplies to consider purchasing at the store include:

1. String lights
2. Construction paper
3. Craft supplies such as sequins, beads, glitter or paint

1. Ghosts. Use a white sheet or white plastic garbage bag. Place a small amount of newspaper or similar type of filling and wrap it into a round shape, tying it off with a rubber band. The best place to put the filling is in the center of the sheet or garbage bag. Smaller ghosts can be made with other types of white cloth such as handkerchiefs. You can then add eyes with a black marker.
2. Gravestones. One of the easiest ways to make gravestones is to cut cardboard boxes into the shape of a gravestone and glue it onto a wooden yard stake. You can then use markers to write an epitaph. For a detailed look at making more extensive tombstones, see the video at the top of the page.
3. Halloween signs. Use construction paper to make decorative signs, which you can cut into various Halloween shapes such as pumpkins or ghosts. You can then use markers, crayons, glitter, glue, etc. to decorate the signs.
4. Pumpkins or spiders. You can make your own pumpkin decorations by using brown paper bags. Crumble newspaper and put it inside the bag, rolling it into a ball and taping it together. Then you can spray paint the bag orange. You can also make spiders in a similar way, spray painting the circle black and gluing on buttons for eyes and attaching pipe cleaners as legs.