Upgrade Your Halloween Porch Decor With This Pool Noodle Ghost DIY

Halloween is the perfect time for exploring, with several options for spooky camping adventures throughout the United States. However, if you're looking to stay at home and be all the envy of your trick-or-treating neighbors, then you need seasonal decorations to draw their attention. Scary decors could be quite fun, but sometimes it's too much and can scare away children who might venture nearby. Instead, consider cute and playful Halloween items to celebrate the holiday without being too frightening. 

There are plenty of options when it comes to cutesy figurines, but if you want something easy to make at home while being absolutely charming, then this pool noodle hack is a great option. Pool noodles have many uses, such as keeping your kids safe from sharp grill side tables and making stunning decorations, and this Halloween decor is no different. With just a pool noodle, children's pants and shoes, a white sheet, and a little black fabric, you can make charming child-sized ghosts that work perfectly for Halloween, while still being adorable. 

The basic premise is easy enough, as TikTok user leanop18a1 demonstrates. Take a standard pool noodle, bend it in half, and push each end through the leg of the pants. To hide the bottom of the noodle sticking out from the feet of the pants, you can put them into shoes. After that, if you want to make your ghost a little taller, bend another noodle to rest on top of the first. Then, take your plain white sheet, and drop it over the top, possibly cutting it into a round shape to look more spectral. Once it is situated how you want it, you can glue on little black circles for eyes. You now have cute ghost children to plant around your porch and front yard!

For your pool noodle ghost, you can use any shoes, as long as they are close-toed. However, you can also have some fun with it by finding cute options like rain boots. To help the ghosts stay sturdy, even in the wind, you can fill the shoes with small rocks to act as weights. 

Of course, while this is the basic method, you can have all sorts of fun with the design. For one, white ghosts are a classic, but there's no reason you can't make it out of other colored sheets or even one with patterns. If you think there might be a doubt the decoration is meant to be a ghost, the eyes should help to get the point across.

Additionally, there are a few ways to get even more creative. If you want your figures to have arms, more than legs, you can take advantage of old tomato cages and pool noodles. You place the metal frame of the cage upside down, set a bowl or something round, like a Styrofoam ball, on the top of the spikes, and push a pool noodle horizontally through the middle to act as arms, as TikTok user macy.blackwell shows. The arms add a fun charm, and make it so your ghost can hold a fake pumpkin, truck-or-treat bucket or some other accessory. To help your ghosts fit into your decor a little more, you can also hang up a shower curtain outside on a fence or wall to add a fun Halloween or fall-themed backdrop.