Halloween Zen Garden
Fall is simply unbeatable if you are looking for vivid colors in your zen garden. And as many of us know, there are countless ways to sort, decorate, and make zen gardens, but stretching your creativity and decorating one for special holidays such as the Christmas or Halloween season just makes it all so much more fun. Now, with the Halloween season only about a week away, it is the perfect time to change things up a little and add an extra little fright to your decor. In this blog post, we will include a few different ideas for a Halloween zen garden to get you started on your search and help improve your creativity so that you can add a little fright to your room, desktop, and home this Halloween season. And if you're scratching your head thinking, "Do Zen and Halloween really go together?" then read on! Because they absolutely can!
Pick Your Halloween Season Zen Garden Theme
There is no wrong answer here. Whether you want something truly horrifying (zombies, nightmarish monsters, or ghouls) to give you a little fright, something a little more classic (Swamp Thing, Dracula, or Frankenstein), or something absolutely adorable (friendly ghosts, bats, and witches). The great thing about designing your own zen garden for the Halloween season is that you get to make it match your own preferred personal aesthetic. If you're not sure what theme you'd like to work with, do a quick Google search. There are so many images that you can draw inspiration from on Etsy, Google Images, and Pinterest.
Zen Garden Supplies
Now, if you hop on Etsy or Amazon, you can find pre-packaged Halloween season-themed gardens (both cute and truly horrifying, guaranteed to give your Halloween trick-or-treaters a little fright), but if you're anything like me, you really prefer to design your own. I frequently find that the pre-packaged ones don't fit my personal preferences, and I end up paying for items I don't even end up using. So instead, let's start from scratch! Begin by picking out your tray. You can buy these just about anywhere, Desktop Tranquility included, but you can also see what you have lying around in your Halloween decorations box. It can be square, rectangular, circular, or even diamond-shaped. You never know what might jump out at you and give you a little fright! (Ha ha! See what we did there? Pun absolutely intended. . .)
Once you have a tray picked out, then all you will need to decorate your own desktop Halloween season zen garden is the normal supplies (sand and rakes), as well as any spooky Halloween decorations you'd like to add, such as a ghost, gravestone, mini pumpkin, black cat, spider, skull, fake cobwebs, witch, zombie, etc. The list of what you can find and buy online at sites like Etsy and Amazon is practically endless! Pro Tip Here: Don't be afraid to go bold with your sand color choice. You might even consider getting a couple of Halloween colors so that you can mix them for an even more eye-catching design.
Set Your Halloween Budget
We recommend setting your budget and going to a local Halloween store like SPIRIT or Party City to find these kinds of decorations. However, you can also visit your local craft stores to see what types of great miniatures and Halloween season decorations you can find. There are also tons of different items to search for on Etsy or Amazon if you want to order them online. It may take a while to search for and buy what you will need, but then you just need to sit at home and sort everything together! But don't worry, even if money is tight, you can still design a beautiful desktop Halloween zen garden from items you have lying around your home or that you find at a second-hand store.
Spooky Zen Garden Ideas
If you want to make things a little spookier and more authentic on top of the Halloween decor items you buy, you could also use a coffin instead of the regular wooden tray and put red or orange sand in it. (Amazon and Etsy both have a ton of sand color options if you want to search for something a little more unconventional that will give your Halloween guests a little fright.) You might also consider some realistic-looking spiders, snakes, skeletons, or other creepy crawly figures to add in as a way to heighten the spooky quality of your garden.
If you are feeling extra spontaneous, you can use real dirt instead of sand and search your backyard for leaves, sticks, or rocks that you could use to give your garden a more realistic and natural look. Just know that any lines you try to draw in the dirt may not stand out as well as they would if you were drawing them in zen sand. Here are a few different ideas you can buy or draw inspiration from on Etsy. These first two are very minimal and most likely the easiest to put together, but any of these examples are a great way to enhance and add a little fright to your room or home.
These last ones are a little extreme and have more detail, but if this is what you had in mind, go for it! In my opinion, they look more appropriate for the Halloween season, and I would definitely choose something like this, but it just depends on your preferences. And don't be afraid to go all out! If you have the scariest Halloween house on the block, then don't be afraid to pull that inspiration into your garden project. If a small desktop garden isn't your cup of tea, then choose a larger size that allows you to give anyone who stumbles across it a little fright.
Conclusion
The only wrong Halloween zen desktop garden is the one not made. So use your imagination, watch a few scary Halloween movies that are guaranteed to give you a little fright, and search away online at places like Pinterest, Etsy, and Amazon so that you can find the perfect Halloween-inspired theme for your zen desktop garden. If you begin planning your garden earlier in the season, you can take your time searching for the right theme and decorative items to make it the perfect garden for your home.
If you are having trouble finding mini decorations for your Halloween season desktop garden, Amazon is probably your best choice, as it has many great Halloween products and options you can choose from. For example, here are a few great options for mini accessory kits that may be helpful for your Halloween desktop garden.
Now that we hopefully got your creative juices flowing with these amazing ideas, it is finally time to let the fun begin and put together your ideas to create your Halloween-inspired zen garden! We hope you enjoyed reading, and please feel free to include pictures of your spooky desktop gardens in the comments!