Family

Family.com Holidays Halloween Headquarters Halloween Tablescape

St. Patrick's Day

More Holiday Fun

Halloween Tablescape

By Amy Locurto

Design a modern Halloween tablescape with these easy DIY ideas and items from around your home. Whether you're hosting a Halloween dinner party or simply want to decorate your table for fright night, this is sure to make your home look spooktacular!

You'll need:

A Black Table Cloth
A piece of modern decorative fabric cut to a large square (black & white striped, polka dots, or other modern Halloween fabric will do)
An Iron
Cake Stand
Black & White Plates (plastic or paper is fine)
Silver Chargers (optional)
Orange Paper or Cloth Napkins
Black Ribbon
Six 8 oz Tomato Sauce Cans
One 28 oz Can of Whole or Pureed Tomatoes
White Paper & Ink Jet Printer
Double Stick Tape or Glue Dots
Orange Flowers
Creepy crawly items like spiders, crows, fake snakes and flies.
Small Pumpkins (optional)
Six Tea Candles
One Silver or Black Pipe Cleaner

Instructions:

Use your decorative fabric square as a table runner to jazz up your plain black table cloth. For an easy no-sew option, just fold under the edges.

Now iron the folded edges down and place diagonal in the center of the table.

Decorate the table with your plates and creepy crawly Halloween items. I used silver chargers, white plates and $4.99 plastic Damask dessert plates from Hobby Lobby. Pumpkins are cute decor on top of plates if you just plan on decorating and not actually eating from this table.

Tie black ribbons around orange napkins for simple napkin rings.

Make a gorgeous floral centerpiece with a large tomato can! Get the free printable can label and directions here.

Download and print this cute sign for your centerpiece! Tape it to a silver pipe cleaner and add to your flowers. Get the free printable here.
Make these adorable candle holders out of tomato sauce cans! Get instructions and the free printable labels here.