These DIY Halloween decorations specimen jars take just minutes to make but are perfect for your Halloween mantel or to decorate your home.
Over the years I’ve collected a lot of small Halloween decor like spiders and bugs. If you already have enough decorating your home and front porch, you can make specimen jars with them.
DIY Halloween decorations specimen jars
These specimen jars take just a couple of minutes to make.Â
Supplies
- jars
- water
- food color
- bugs or body parts
Instructions
- Fill 3/4 of the jar with tap water.Â
- Add a couple of drops of food color.
- Put your ‘specimen’ inside and close the lid.
I’ve made another version of these Halloween specimen jars for the Party City website if you want to dress your jars up for Halloween too.
Items you can put in Halloween specimen jars
- Shrunken heads
- Bugs, spiders, bats, rats, and snakes
- Eyeballs
- Body parts including bones, hearts, brains, and hands
You can find most of these items at your local party, craft, or big box store where Halloween decorations are sold.
Looking for more DIY Halloween decorations you can make for your home or party? Take a look at these:
- Last-minute Halloween crafts and fun foods that kids will love
- Halloween jar candle lights
- Jack-O-Lantern lighted garland
- Halloween pom pom creatures
- Pillow box bat treat containers
- Halloween egg carton treat boxes
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So flippin’ cool! And the pumpkin-cat too! This website looks great too by the way, I think it has changed again since the last time I looked! Great job!!
Eeeeew! 🙂
So easy! Gonna have to use this one next year
It would be fun to make these with Jello instead of the water and food coloring
oh definitely, kids would love it.
Made this for my son’s Zombie Themed Birday Party (he’s 9) I used jello, gummy mice, rats, and worms….Adults not so thrilled about trying them….15 8&9 year old boys couldn’t get enough…Thanks for the great idea