Halloween is one of the most exciting holidays of the year for many fun-loving children and adults. One of the greatest joys for young and old is decorating your home for Halloween. You can easily do this, letting your imagination lead the way and you can create a good deal on a tight budget if needed. Pay close attention to how to decorate for the last Halloween.
When you have kids, you can use all those Halloween class projects. You can simply hang them or even make a Halloween tree, similar to a Christmas or Easter tree. You can use construction paper to make pumpkins, bats, cats, witches, spiders, and other ghoulish decorations to place around the house. Once they’ve created their paper decorations, use tape and pin to attach and hang them.
Spooky sounds are wonderful for setting the mood. You may want to buy a Halloween CD or make your own using a tape recorder.
Lighting is essential to create a Halloween atmosphere. You can use candles and pumpkins, however be sure to practice fire safety. You can use some of those plastic Christmas candles, either using the orange bulbs, or other colored lights, you can always cover the bottom with cardboard, aluminum foil or paint them. Strategically placed black lights add a spooky feel.
Making a Halloween doll is simple and fun, using old clothes, boots, a hat, and some stuffing. Place the mannequin inside or out for the kids to see, they love to get a close look at those Halloween decorations. You can also consider some cobwebs and spiders to hang around your house during Halloween.
When decorating your garden for Halloween, you might consider letting the grass grow which will add to the appearance of the house being abandoned, then pick up some old looking wooden planks, write some scary names on them and then place them around the garden. as grave markers. While preparing the graves you may also want to place some soil in there to give it more of a grave appearance, some people may consider using fertilizer to do this however the fertilizer will actually burn the grass underneath when there is more of it there what the grass really needs.
Another interesting idea, if you have enough space in the garden, is to plant a corn maze, when the time is right, and then let the corn stay in place during Halloween, when the corn should have already started to dry, which It provides a very scary look, not to mention the rustle of dried corn stalks when the wind blows adds those extra spooky sounds as you travel through a corn maze. If you decide to plant a corn maze to use during Halloween, you might also consider planting some well-placed costumed people to hide inside the maze, to scare off some of the people traveling through the maze. However, you may want to try to be too scary when entertaining children and older people, so as not to upset anyone too much.
Another great idea to decorate your yard for a Halloween party is to build a campfire and maybe an effigy or two. Imagine throwing Freddie Kruger into the fire, or maybe Jason or Michael. It’s all fun and it’s the season! Have fun preparing for your Ultimate Halloween.