Add Spooky Words to Stairs for Halloween Decorating

Here is the project  showed you on our home tour yesterday!The kids and I wanted to do a fun project for Halloween. I wanted to do something that would be easy for Oldest,Middle and Little to all do. We decided to add spooky words to stairs for Halloween!

This was so easy too!

Supplies you’ll need to create spooky stairs

I bought two packs of two different fonts of black alphabet stickers

White poster board

Scissors

Double stick tape

Make your spooky word signs for the stair risers

We measured the stairs and cut the poster board so that they fit exactly to the height  of each riser. You could get larger poster board and have them cover the entire width as well.

We decided on some spooky phrases that might apply going up into a haunted house or in their case, messy bedrooms.:) We used words of caution like “danger” “turn back” “do not enter” ” go away” and “beware”.

We found it was easiest to start with the middle letter of each phrase and work our way in both directions for proper spacing and get our letters aligned. To make sure the letters are straight,  either draw a very light pencil line or use low tack green painters tape on the poster board.

We came up with about 8 different phrases and decided on the ones we had the most letters for. Depending on your words you may need more packs of alphabet stickers.

With a piece of clear tape on each side, we stuck them to the risers and viola! Spooky stairs! It’s so much fun! I’ve styled the stairs with faux pumpkins for the images, but remove them for daily use since they would be a trip hazard.

It helps that we have white stairs so they blend right in! The kids love showing them off when people come over, I told them we should have them up year round for their rooms. Talk about scary danger zones!