8 Best Halloween Lighting Ideas 2019

There’s a special day when ordinary people dress up un-ordinarily and end their day up getting free candies, it’s Halloween! While some are off making pumpkin flavored dishes, this season overjoy by plotting some spooky lights all over our places. We are here to make your home lighting get that Halloween mood.

Here you will find some of the best-curated ideas to lighten up your place this Halloween:

1. Floating Candles

Pick up your art kits and gather up to make these mind-blowing scary candles hanging over your heads this Halloween. You are going to love it if you are a big fan of Harry Potter. This will look just like the Hogwarts ceiling.

All you need are cardboard rolls, white paper, glue, wire or threads, LEDs and you are all set for making these floating candles.

Here are the steps to get started:

• Collect some cardboard rolls (Toilet paper or kitchen rolls)
• Paint them white or cover them with a white paper
• Install tea light LED or standard small LED inside the rolls
• Hang the rolls on the ceiling with the help of fishing wire or threads
• Your ceiling is ready to glow!

2.    Window Hands

It is yet another well-curated idea to scare the trick-or-treat fellows coming to your place. It gives your home a whole spooky look from the outside. It will scare people out, and they might not even dare to ask for free candies, ha-ha.

All you need is black paper, pens, scissors, wax paper, large LED and a window in your house.

Here are the steps to get started:

• Put your hand on a black paper and trace it with pen
• Cut out the shape and make some more similar cut-outs
• Paste them on a wax paper
• Tape to the inside of a window
• Light up the room with a LED and have a spooky look from outside!

3.    Pumpkin Porch Light

This is a fantastic yet straightforward lighting idea to decorate your house this Halloween. Jack o lanterns are the hottest things on Halloween so why not make your very own customized one? It is super easy and fast to make!

All you need is plastic pumpkin, scissors, pens and LED to be installed in the porch wall.

Here are the steps to get started:

• Get a plastic pumpkin from the market
• Cut out the jack face
• Cut ¼ part of the pumpkin from the backside
• Now just put this pumpkin face over the super glowing LED installed in your porch

4.    Ghost Wall

This is one of the favorites among people who are super excited to lighten up their house with all the scary ideas. It looks good on the wall outside your porch. It does not require much to do and takes little time from your busy schedule.

All you need is LEDs, masks of the color of your choice, and that’s all you need for a great wall this Halloween.

Here are the steps to get started:

• Install some small LEDs over the wall
• Get some pure white or colorful masks
• Now cover your lights with these masks
• Get ready to get some spooky effect!

5.    Water Lanterns

This is suitable for those who have small water bodies or pool by their homes. Who knew that their pools could also dress up as scary as them this Halloween? You can make your pools scary by making these water lanterns.

All you need are plastic lantern buckets, markers and LEDs to make the water bodies spooky as well.

Here are the steps to get started:

• Gather some plastic lantern buckets
• Draw Jack’s face or other ghost creatures over it with a permanent marker
• Install LED in each one of the lanterns
• Let the lanterns float in your pool or water body

6.    Pathway Lights

This is one of the unique ideas which you would not find in other fellow places. If you already have a pathway built on your lawn, then it does not require much to do. You need to place the scary heads over the railings of your pathway.

All you need is a railing set up, LEDs installed on fences, colorful Jack faces lanterns (plastic or metallic), and that’s it.

Here are the steps to get started:

• Create a small pathway with wooden or iron railings
• Install LED on every point of the fence
• Get some plastic or metallic lanterns
• Place Jack face lanterns on every LED you installed
• More colorful the lanterns, better it looks

7.    Ghost light

You can show up your creative side using this idea. With the help of a LED strip, you can mold it into any shape that you find scary. Here we have molded into a shape of ghost hence the name ghost light. Gear up to show your creative side this Halloween.

All you need is a LED strip, tape and a wall to fix it on.

Here are the steps to get started:

• Get a flexible LED strip of your choice
• Give it the shape of a ghost or any other character you like
• Stick the shape to the wall
• Plug in the switch and glow the LED strip
• Dim other nearby lights for more effect

8.    Spooky Mason Jars

This is our personal favorite. You can customize this as you have to draw the mysterious creatures over it be it a ghost or jack face. The best thing about this idea is that it is portable and can be moved to any corner of the place.

All you need are mason jars, wax paper or thin white cloth, permanent markers, red paint and the best LED RGB strip <do-follow>.

Here are the steps to get started:

• Get some old mason jars
• Cover them up with wax paper
• Cover them up with thin white cloth for a scarier look
• Draw ghosts on the fabric or paper with the help of a permanent marker
• You can also add some blood stains using red paint
• Place small LED in mason jars and see the magic of LEDs

Source:  http://www.woohome.com/diy-2/top-30-diy-spooky-mason-jars-for-this-halloween

Let’s gear up with our art and tool kits and have lots of fun while implementing these great ideas. Now we are all set up to scare our friends with these well-curated amazing and spooky ideas which involve creativity and are fun to make. Wish you a Happy Halloween!