How To Give Your Kitchen a Spooky Makeover This Halloween

Get in the mood for Halloween by giving your kitchen a seriously spooky makeover. Here are some ideas to help you transform your kitchen into a ghoulish ghetto.

Pick a spooky theme

Nowadays, Halloween costumes range from traditional ghosts and witches to characters from spooky TV shows and films. Embrace this theme for your kitchen design by printing off pictures of the characters, cutting them out and pinning them around the kitchen. You could have the soundtrack or theme tune of the show playing in the background.

Alternatively, you might want to create an old-fashioned witches’ lair, with broomsticks and a cauldron as the centrepiece. Try using dry ice to create a smoking effect.

Halloween garlands and banners can be hung along walls or above doorways, featuring bats, spiders and cobwebs.

Simple Halloween Table Decorations

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Coordinate your colours

If you’re planning a Halloween feast, start with a colour scheme for the kitchen table or island.

Black and orange can be the starting point. A simple arrangement is to place a carved pumpkin in the centre of a table covered in black cloth. Smaller pumpkins with candles inside can be dotted around the room.

Transform everyday items by adding Halloween stickers to glasses and bowls. Plastic spiders can be tied to cutlery with cobweb-like thread.

Then decorate the table with ghoulish sweets such as gummy worms and skeletons, false teeth, skulls and jelly pumpkins.

Add window decorations and spooky lighting

Carved pumpkins with tealights look great on a windowsill but can be a fire hazard if you have lots of small children running around. A safer alternative is to use LED battery-operated tealights.

Scatter small pumpkins around the room with battery-operated tealights for a spooky ambience. The main light should be dimmed so that you’re left with an eerie glow.

Strings of orange LED lights can be hung over windows and around doors. Use them to highlight hanging bats and plastic spiders.

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Serve up some terribly tempting treats

On a cold night, pumpkin soup will warm everyone up – and its orange colour looks great when you serve it in a black bowl – or in a hollowed-out pumpkin.

Another favourite is to wrap up hot dogs in dough to make them look like mummies. Or use a knife to fashion a fingernail shape in the hot dog and add ketchup to make it look like a bloodied finger.

You can customise homemade pizzas with tomato sauce in a blood splatter or cobweb design. Boiled eggs with a black olive can be fashioned to give the appearance of an eyeball.

For sweet treats, decorate cupcakes with witches, ghosts and mummies. A ghoulish cake makes an eye-catching centrepiece.

If you’re feeling creative, try making a haunted house cake by baking a square sponge and decorating it with black frosting for the house and white icing for the windows, doors, and ghosts!

If you prefer to attempt something simpler, it’s easy to make or buy a plain round cake, decorate it with dark frosting and use white icing to create a spiderweb pattern on top. Add a plastic spider or two for a creepy finish.

Drinks can be served in potion bottles with spooky labels like Dracula’s Blood, Witches Brew and Zombies’ Eyeballs.

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