Scrap Fabric Lighted Halloween Garland

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Scrap Fabric Lighted Halloween Garland

Create this fabric lighted Halloween garland in no time for a spooky Halloween glow. It’s an easy Halloween craft and a great way to add some color and texture to your Halloween decor.

Scrap fabric lighted Halloween garland on a Halloween hot chocolate bar.

Although I can’t say Halloween is my favorite holiday, the kids love it and we always have a lot of fun with our Halloween traditions. We love going to the pumpkin patch, having a Halloween dinner and scary movie night, planning Halloween parties, and, of course, carving out our jack-o-lanterns. I’m not really into all of the gory Halloween decor, but I love coming up with fun ways to add just a little spookiness to our home

Seasonal Simplicity Series

It’s another week of our fall seasonal simplicity series and, if you haven’t already guessed, this week is all about Halloween DIY and craft projects! There are lots of fun and easy Halloween craft projects for you to try. Plan a ladies’ craft night, do them with your kids, or put on Netflix for a little background entertainment while you craft away. You can find all of the awesome ideas at the end of the post.

Fall Simplicity Series.

Lighted Halloween Garland

I generally wait to put up our Halloween decorations until after Thanksgiving which is the first weekend in October for those of you not in Canada. This year, however, I ended up getting started a little earlier and put up our Halloween hot chocolate bar. It’s kind of hard to go wrong with hot chocolate, right?

Fabric Lighted Halloween Garland. Halloween hot chocolate bar with DIY garland made out of scrap fabric and lights.

I love the glow of lights at night and wanted to add a little more color to our hot chocolate bar. This scrap fabric lighted Halloween garland did just the trick! I wish I could capture the night-time glow on camera, but it just doesn’t do it justice.

Cute DIY Halloween garland made from scrap fabric and a string of lights.

Lighted Hallowen Garland Tutorial

This simple Halloween craft is quick and easy to do with just a couple of supplies. Customize it with whatever colors and patterns you like.

Materials

scrap fabric in 2 or 3 colors
twinkle lights or string of Christmas lights

Scrap fabric cut into strips to use for a DIY lighted Halloween garland.

To Do

Cut the fabric into strips approximately 6 inches by 1 inch – it doesn’t have to be precise!
Choose your lights. I used twinkle lights with a thin wire for my project – mostly because it was what I had on hand without digging through the Christmas boxes. I liked it because the wire is really thin so I didn’t feel like I needed a lot of fabric. A string of actual Christmas lights would provide more light, but you’ll need to use more fabric if you want to cover up the wire.
Tie the scrap fabric pieces around the wire alternating colors. Fluff them out as desired. You can make the garland as full or as sparse! as you would like so play around with how many fabric strips you want to add until you like the look.

Cute DIY Halloween garland made from scrap fabric and a string of lights.

See? It’s super easy to do and a great project if you have a little Netflix binging going on. You might even have to make up a few. These Halloween garlands work great on a Halloween mantel, Halloween tablescape, or any Halloween vignette. This would also be a fun craft to do with your kids and then use it to decorate up their room. Where would you use it?

Lighted Halloween garland made from scrap fabric and lights. Used along a buffet table for a Halloween hot chocolate bar.

If you’re interested in seeing more of the hot chocolate bar, you can grab links for the free printable hot chocolate labels as well as the cute Monster Mash printable.

More Halloween Craft Ideas

Are you ready for more fun DIY Halloween craft ideas? Check out all of these fun and creative ideas from some of my talented blogging friends. I’d love to hear if you try any projects out!

Collection of Halloween craft ideas.