Paper Halloween Decorations

If you want to keep the cost of decorating down for Halloween, but still want to do something neat, invest in a roll of black butcher paper.  Martha has aboout a dozen ideas that require no more than black paper, some good scissors, and a patient cutting hand.

If you have a staircase in your home that isn't carpeted, you can add a spooy staircase silhouette:

or some creepy mice:

You can use the black paper to turn your lamps into ghouls:

or infest them with bats:

Add some spook with black paper curtains:

Or put something a little scarier in your windows:

Not to mention that it will make a great table cloth for a Halloween table by itself on the kids table or  under some tulle on your buffet.  There are about a million and one uses for butcher paper and I pretty much love them all.