Halloween Mantle with a Halloween Printable

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After much pleading by our six year old, we made the trek upstairs to dig our Halloween decorations out of the storage closet. The kids spent many happy hours playing with plastic spiders and assembling a mini skeleton. I was overjoyed that I was able to have our house decorations up  in a little over an hour.

Here’s our Halloween mantle:

Today I will share with you three of the elements of the mantle – the bats & branches, the books, and the banner. Plus I have a printable, so keep reading.

First up, the bats and branches.

My challenge for the mantle each time I decorate it is to add height to the decorations. Our ceilings in this room are two stories tall so I try and have our display be on the same large scale.

The spray painted branches were used in previous holiday mantles. During Christmas they held ornaments while during Valentine’s they held hearts. Tuesday To Do Party

The bats were cut out of black construction paper last Halloween but were never used for a project so I thought they would be perfect taped to the trees.

The spooky books are simply books covered in white paper and taped together. It was frightening how many gorey words my two oldest could come up with in when faced with the task of creating titles for these books. I insisted we tone it down for the display.

Last year I created the “Trick or Treat” banner by cutting out orange triangles, pasting white circles with letters on it, and adding stickers for the symbols. After I modge podged it, poked holes in it and strung it by a ribbon, it was finally completed. Frankly, tons of work.

I wanted to create a printable for you and figured this would be easy to recreate. In fact, it was so easy, I’m going to create all my banners this way. 

The printable I created for you consist of 12 separate Halloween symbol triangles and 8 separate triangles with letters which will spell out “trick or treat“. You will need to print out the letters t and r multiple times.


I printed out the symbols on card stock, cut holes on the sides, and attached with string.

Here are five triangles which were chosen by my six year old to display by our entrance.  (Uhhh,yes…dirty mirror alert.)

If you’d like the Trick or Treat banner printable please click here.

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Wednesday I will share with you how I made the large Macbeth sign and the glittered skulls.

Do you have any favorite Halloween decorations in your home this year?

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30 thoughts on “Halloween Mantle with a Halloween Printable”

  2. I love Halloween! And I love decorating for it. I don’t start until October. In Sept. I start putting up fall decorations…and I am thinking of doing a banner like yours! Love it.

  6. Awesome! I love decorating with twigs, do you mind if I do these & link back to you?I’m stopping by from the Cure For the Common Monday Party & had to say hello!The whole mantle looks great! I would LOVE for you to link up to My Favorite Things Friday Party going on all week. Thanks so much & keep up the creativeness!
    XoXo
    ~Iffy~
    http://www.StayAtHomeNation.blogspot.com

  9. My favorite is the books..so simple and fun to do even in an “empty-nester” household..add a bit of fun!

  14. I love the bats on the spray painted branches. I have some set aside to spray paint for Halloween, but I can’t decide between black or white! Or natural! Aaah, so many choices!

  20. Hi Me! Your mantle is so fun and has so many interesting elements! I saw your post over at “Serenity Now” and I am following you now. I did a post on some pennants (my first I have tried) this week. There were a little more time-consuming than I thought they would be…like you said.

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