9 Halloween Crafts You Can Make From Target Goods for Under $15

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If you’re looking for a real fright this Halloween, check out the prices you’ll have to pay for high-end costumes and decorations. The final bill could easily total hundreds of dollars — especially if you want to decorate the lawn with life-size monsters that make eerie noises and move their body parts. Or, you can take a DIY approach and create Halloween decorations for less money than it takes to buy a large bag of candy.

A good place to find art and craft supplies that can be transformed into ghoulish fun is Target, the discount chain with nearly 2,000 stores across the United States. Here are nine Halloween crafts you can make from Target goods that cost less than $15.

Hanging Bats

• Item to buy: Northlight Black Halloween Posable Felt Bats
• Price: $13.99 (when purchased online)

Nothing says Halloween like a bunch of creepy black bats hanging around the house. With this set, you get 10 posable felt bats. For a DIY craft, find a large tree branch, hang the bats from the branches and position the branch close to the front door.

DIY Halloween Ghouls, Goblins and Other Figures

• Item to buy: Crayola 240-Sheet Construction Paper 12-Color
• Price: $5.89

Sheets in this set measure 9 x 12 inches and feature plenty of fall/Halloween color options, including black, orange, red, yellow and brown. Use the set of construction paper to draw or assemble pumpkins, spiders, bats and your favorite ghouls and goblins to display around the house.

Giant Spiders

• Item to buy: Juvale 24 Pack Small Foam Balls
• Price: $13.92 (when purchased online)

Use this set of 24 foam balls to create giant spiders by painting the balls black and sticking in pipe cleaners as legs. Add google eyes for an even eerier effect.

Chalk Ghost

• Item to buy: Crayola Chalk
• Price: $0.99

This is a cheap way to create DIY ghosts by using the white chalk against a black background. You get 12 chalk sticks in a pack. All are nontoxic and durable enough to resist breaking.

Haunted House

• Item to buy: Mondo Llama Halloween Lit Ceramic Haunted House
• Price: $5

This paint-your-own Halloween kit brings a fun and spooky vibe to your home. It includes one ceramic haunted house, one paintbrush, six acrylic paint pots and two LR44 batteries.

Spider Haven

• Item to buy: Hyde & EEK! Boutique Spiders
• Price: $3

This set comes with 150 plastic spiders with the usual spiny legs and round abdomens. You can place them around the house to give visitors an instant fright, or kick things up a notch by putting the spiders on a miniature house, adding an orange light and creating a centerpiece haunted house.

Spider Web Wreath

• Item to buy: Elmer’s Craft Bond Mini Glue Gun Dual Temp
• Price: $12.99

Glue guns are a must for creating DIY crafts. This affordable dual-temperature glue gun has an insulated nozzle, safety fuse and built-in side lifts for safety. High temps can be used for metal, plastics, wood and ceramic, while the low-temp setting works for delicate materials such as foam and soft fabrics. Use the gun to create a spider-web wreath from twigs and sticks.

Halloween Puppets

• Item to buy: Crayola Kids Watercolor Paints with Brush
• Price: $2.49

This set of washable, nontoxic watercolor paints includes eight different paint colors and one paintbrush. Use the paints on pumpkins to create jack-o’-lanterns that don’t require carving (or sharp knives), or create Halloween puppets using small paper bags.

Paper Pumpkin

• Item to buy: Mondo Llama Mini Molded Paper Pumpkin Kit
• Price: $5

This paint-your-own pumpkin kit lets you create two pumpkins you can display in the house. The kit includes paper pumpkins, foam stickers, two paint tubes and a paintbrush.

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