Outdoor halloween decorations: 2012

Simple & Fun Halloween Pranks

Halloween is a notorious time for pulling pranks on friends or even total strangers! Pranks can be fun for everyone as long they are done tastefully and nobody gets hurt. Here are some pranks you can try and pull off yourself come next Halloween.

Party Pranks

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1.) As your guests arrive at your Halloween party, have someone dress up and scare people as they come into your house. Most of your guests won't see it coming and it should all be for a good laugh.

Simple & Fun Halloween Pranks

2.) In the food you are serving at your Halloween party, add a fake finger or bugs to the plate or dish. Some unlucky guest will find it and be sure to scream. You could also apply this prank to someone's glass. Find one of the fake fly's in an ice cube and make a drink for one of your friends!

3.) While working in the kitchen, pretend to accidentally chop off one of your fingers and have some fake blood and a fake finger and you will be sure to get someone.

On your Own

1.) Create a "dummy" creature and place in your yard to attract attention of those who come and trick and treat on Halloween. Find a hidden spot across from this object and jump out and scare those unlucky trick or treaters! If you make your "dummy" stick out enough you will have no problem hiding!

2.) When you go up to knock on someone's door when they answer fill their bowl up with candy before they can offer you any

3.) Dress up in a hospital patient outfit, mess up your hair and use some costume effects and create a few visible scars on your body and walk around saying comments that don't make sense. You will be surprised how many people it freaks out!

Simple & Fun Halloween Pranks

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How To Make Your Own Halloween Decorations

Not only will you need to dress yourself for Halloween, but also your home. Why not make some homemade decorations instead of going for store bought ones? Here are some ideas.

1. Fake blood is a great addition to frightening figures. You don't necessarily have to use ketchup. Another way to gain this gruesome effect is with a mix of corn syrup (one cup), red food colouring (2 tablespoons) and yellow food colouring (1 tablespoon). Stir well and you'll find it looks more realistic than tomato sauce.

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2. To give the impression you have something sinister in your bushes, use a string of Christmas lights and a few 35mm film canisters. For the eyes, drill two holes on each one - make sure the canisters are facing you. Place the lights so that the light will come out of each hole. Tape in place.

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If the lights are white you may wish to put red cellophane over the holes to create a more realistic impression of wolves in the bushes.

3. To make a tombstone, take some Styrofoam, grey spray paint and a marker. Cut out the gravestone, any size you wish, from the styrofoam. After that, spray paint it. Once dry, use the marker to write the deceased's name on it. When complete, plant the tombstones on your porch.

4. How about making some bats? You will need foam or construction paper. Once you've chosen the material, cut out the shape of a bat. Paint black and fix to the window or hang from the ceiling.

5. You could also decorate your chandelier. Create a less homely feel by fixing dead branches around it.

6. Glass jars can be useful for crafting Halloween creations. Inside them place water dyed with food coloring, then mix in plastic insects or body parts. To give more realism, place in ragged gauze or waxed string. Now they are ready to go on the dining table.

7. Why not ginger up the punch (but not in the usual way), drop in a hand! Get a plastic glove and some ice. The ice goes inside the glove - don't forget to tie the top. The ice will enable your dismembered hand to float menacingly in the punch.

8. Halloween is not Halloween without a pumpkin. You'll need to purchase one from your store, unless you grow your own. Hollow out the insides, perhaps cut of a face or design then place a candle in the bottom. It will look super guarding your front door.

There are dozens of Halloween decorations you can make. Have a go at some of these, or if they don't take your fancy simply search the net for more suitable ones.

How To Make Your Own Halloween Decorations

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Halloween Decoration Ideas - Vintage Halloween Decorating Ideas Inspired by the Early 1900's

While a lot has changed in 100 years, you may be surprised that the essence of great Halloween Decorating has remained almost the same. Unlike the 1900's, we do have modern amenities like electricity, electronics and LED lights to bring more pizazz to our Halloween decorating. I invite you to use these vintage Halloween decorating ideas along with modern twists to create a classic and spooky Halloween scene throughout your home.

Outdoor Halloween Decorations:

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If the place where the festivities are held is held in the suburbs, the lawn in front of house should be decorated with hanging lighted jack-o'-lanterns. The eyes, nose, mouth in each one should be different and as grotesque as possible. If there is a fence around the yard, put a jack-o'-lantern on each post. Drape black above the front door and, in the center over the door, hang a skull and cross-bones.

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Entrance way Halloween Decorations:

Once inside the home, the entrance way should be in total darkness except for light coming from jack-o'-lanterns of all shapes and sizes on tables, and hanging from doors and ceiling, and around/in the fireplace. The entrance way should be draped in black and the person who opens the door should be dressed in black.

Living Room/Family Room Halloween Decorations:

Decorate the main rooms with jack-o'-lanterns made from apples, cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, etc. Hang them somewhere in the room or place on stands, tables, and mantles. Use also green branches, autumn leaves, apples, tomatoes, ears of corn and drape the room with red and yellow scrim and cheese-cloth. If possible, have a fire going in the fireplace.

Halloween Decorations for a Spooky Room:

The best place for spooky Halloween happenings is the garage, attic or basement. Have guests enter your spooky room immediately after hanging their coats. If you are creating your spooky room in a building detached from the house, build a large bonfire. The spooky room should be decorated with gruesome things - jack-o'-lanterns, skulls and cross-bones, black draperies, witches made out of cardboard and suspended from the walls, cats, bats, owls, etc. The shades and spirits should flit about. Use this room to tell ghost stories, play gruesome games or for fortune telling.

Dining Room Halloween Decorations:

The dining room should have festoons of nuts, branches of oats, strings of cranberries, autumn leaves, goldenrod, odd lanterns, yellow chrysanthemums and whatever else goes along with the theme. All the decorations of this room should be cheerful and suitable to the season. Charming maidens flit about serving the guests. For a festive Halloween table center piece use a large pumpkin with top cut off, pulp removed, and filled with water holding a large bunch of chrysanthemums or goldenrod. Bay leaves should be scattered over table and around the dishes. The menu card at each guest's plate should be of burnt leather bearing a sketch of a witch. After all unmask, lights in dining-should be turned up and room made brilliant.

Some modernizations of the above could include solar powered jack-o'-lanterns, spooky sound effects and a skull with glowing red eyes. Enjoy putting your unique twist to these vintage Halloween decorating ideas to create a fabulous setting for your Halloween Party.

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Vintage Halloween Decorations - Hard Plastic Halloween Decorations and Toys

One of the most popular categories of collectible vintage Halloween decorations is the hard plastic decorations and toys that were manufactured from the 1940s and onwards. It's primarily the vintage plastic items that are of interest to collectors, so you will mostly want to take a look at products made in the Forties and Fifties, but some later finds from the Sixties and beyond are certainly interesting as well if you want to put together a fun and whimsical collection.

Some of the brand names to take note of are Irwin, Knickerbocker, Rosen, Rosbro and Union Products, but they aren't even close to being the only companies making polystyrene and celluloid plastic novelty items for Halloween. They are just some of the most well known companies and therefore quite collectible.

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Examples of some of the vintage hard plastic Halloween decorations include items like blow mold pieces in various shapes - Jack O'Lanterns, witches, and black cats are popular (and frequently together in a single piece) and many of the Halloween blow molds light up, glowing orange, especially Jack O'Lanterns, of course, but there are all kinds of shapes that are turned into lanterns as well.

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But it isn't just the larger blow mold pieces that are popular. You'll also find lots of smaller items in hard plastic that are fun to collect. Look for party decorations such as cake picks, cake toppers and other small decorative pieces made to decorate cakes and cupcakes and other Halloween treats. You can also find Halloween drink stirrers for more adult parties too.

Also, keep on the lookout for hard plastic candy containers. In addition to the large ones designed for kids to take out trick or treating (the large Jack O'Lanterns with straps), there are lots of small candy containers designed for the table. You could arrange a whole collection of them on a shelf together.

In addition to items that are meant to be decorations, there are also lots of hard plastic Halloween toys. You can find lots of little roller toys that are in good condition, so if you're looking for a witch on roller skates you'll be sure to find her. Or maybe you want a ghost that pops out of a Jack O'Lantern to scare you.

Vintage Halloween Decorations - Hard Plastic Halloween Decorations and Toys

If you're new to collecting vintage Halloween decorations, including the hard plastic novelties, then you'll want to take a look at some guides to vintage Halloween collectibles for some help in putting your own perfect collection together. You can get an introduction to some of my favorite Halloween items to collect at: http://www.squidoo.com/vintagehalloweencollectibles

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Arts and Crafts Halloween Decorations

Arts and crafts Halloween decorations are definitely fun to make and can really can give your home a festive look on this wonderful holiday. You don't have to be the next Michelangelo to create something especially spooky for your home. All you need is some imagination, enthusiasm, and some craft supplies and you are ready to go! Here are a few suggestions

One of the easier crafts for Halloween is creating creepy candles. First acquire dark coloured candles or perhaps those in classic Halloween colours (orange and black). You'll also need some decorations for example sequins, beads, candy corn. The choices for decoration are many. You might be able to find Halloween shaped table sprinkles in your local stores. If the items used to decorate are small, tweezers may be helpful when handling them. Some people even stick on fake cobwebs to give a ghastly glow. Once you've collected together the objects glue them around he candle in a pleasing way. All that's left to do now is place the candles around for home for best effect.

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Arts and crafts Halloween decorations can be great projects for friends and family to do together. Enjoys each other's company as you enjoy trying new craft techniques.

Arts and Crafts Halloween Decorations

Another idea for Halloween is to hang scary things from trees. Children love it! It is possible to simply create a ghost from a white balloon plus two plain plastic grocery bags. First cut the handles off the bags and any writing on them. Then shred the bag into dangly strips. Cut towards the bottom seam end stopping an inch away from it. After that blow up the balloon and tie securely. Tape the seams of the bags to the balloon (one at front the other at the back) making sure the knot is at the top. Black electrical or duct tape will hold the plastic bags securely in place. Now draw a scary face on the ghost and attach string to hang it up with. You could also tie bells on to the bottom of the ghost to give a more haunting feel in your garden. Several of these hung all over your yard will certainly give friends and neighbours something to think about!

Take up the challenge of arts and crafts Halloween decorations today. Easy or difficult projects it doesn't matter - just enjoy.

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Inflatable Haunted House Props - A Look at the Best Halloween Decorations and Ideas

An inflatable haunted house is both a great prop and decoration for Halloween. This type of blow up yard product is a great idea to decorate your home in October. If you have been to haunted houses, you know that it's all about being scary.

These inflatable haunted house decorations are similar, but not as extreme. These haunting props come with music and sound modules that will spook and scare the people that dare go inside them. Frightening house ideas of this type are made mainly for kids, but teenagers and adults can enjoy them as well. It is probably a good idea to keep the toddlers and infants away because they may be too young to understand that it's not real and become very afraid.

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More scary ideas to increase the fear level is to add more props like spider webs and eve wallpaper or macabre pictures that scream Halloween. However, inflatable haunted house props for your lawn or backyard are not even close to the real haunted houses in Houston, Dallas Texas or Atlanta. These cities really go overboard when it comes to Halloween and scaring people. At home, keeping this holiday fun and safe is the main goal.

Inflatable Haunted House Props - A Look at the Best Halloween Decorations and Ideas

If you are a resourceful type, you can probably make your own scary house setup. Craft stores and even super markets will have some great decorations and props that will suit your needs. Look for grave stones, skeletons, pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, knives, cob webs, and more. The list of Halloween ideas is a long one that only is limited by your imagination.

If you just want a little flare, but not too much, definitely go for a simple inflatable haunted house or castle and you'll be set. Of course, don't forget the candy and a carved pumpkin. Halloween should be fun and festive for the kids, family, and friends. Always remember to carry a flashlight when trick or treating and look both ways before crossing the street. Even though many kids are out enjoying the candy and Halloween house decorations, being safe comes first before having fun.

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Halloween Decorations the Easy Way

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Carved pumpkins on the front porch, the crisp night air & strange sounds in the night - Halloween is one time a year you can you can step outside the box and be really weird and wonderful at the same time. Most people have a hard time coming up with ideas for Halloween decorations. In this article, I will show you how to do Halloween decorations the easy way.

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The first step- greet your guests with an eerie entryway

Halloween Decorations the Easy Way

You can start with the traditional carved pumpkin but with a little flare. After you carve the pumpkin, take it to the next level by stenciling designs around the pumpkin then use the pumpkin as a planter with fall branches and leaves from the top. Pumpkins are fun and easy and should be the first item on your list. Get the family involved and let everyone put a piece of his or her creative mind into the masterpiece. Hang black rubber bats on the porch and put cobwebs over everything. In one corner, you can setup a mad scientist lab with a big jar filled with green goo, eyeballs, bats, vampire teeth and whatever else you can dream up.

An easy and cheap thing to do is to find an old planter box, paint it black and use a stencil to paint Trick or Treat on the side. Fill the planter box with hay and pile on some pumpkins with a larger pumpkin on the bottom and then use smaller sizes on the next layers; sort of like topiary of pumpkins. For the topiary of pumpkins, I would paint the faces on them instead of carving them. You will want them to be sturdy and maybe even use a metal rod down the center to keep them together.

Another great idea you don't see very often; milk jugs painted with a ghost face filled with white Christmas lights. Milk jugs make perfect ghost & goblins and are extremely cheap and easy to make.

Interior Halloween Decor

One simple and very cheap idea; costume the people in the paintings and photos in your home. This is easily done with paper masks made out of construction paper, scissors, and low tack artist tape. You can use leaves and weeds for hair. It will add that extra flare for your Halloween party.

Wreaths are a great way to add fun to your home. You can make your own or buy them for fairly cheap. Some people aren't crafty and you can purchase ready made wreaths for cheap at craft and/or dollar stores. You u can buy plain wreaths and stick cheap Halloween decorations such as giant bugs, spiders, bats etc. By the way, wreaths are great indoors as well as outdoors.

Halloween Parties

If you plan on having a Halloween party you can make creepy ice cubes by freezing gummy worms into your ice trays. You can even freeze raisins into the ice cubes for a scary bug effect. Going that extra mile for the party will make it much more fun and enjoyable for your guests.

Conclusion

Halloween is a fun Holiday everyone enjoys. The many ways to decorate your home are enormous and endless. The only limitation is your imagination for Halloween decorations the easy way.

Halloween Decorations the Easy Way

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Unique Halloween Decorations

Everyone uses pumpkins and orange lights during Halloween, but that doesn't mean that you can't find unique Halloween decorations to use both inside and outside of your home. Sick of seeing every house on the street put up the "crashed witches" or huge garbage bag pumpkins? Here are some ideas to keep your neighbors talking about your neat decoration ideas!

Masks: Masks don't have to just be for your face-they can be some great Halloween decorations as well! Try lining and entryway with scary masks or even hanging one on your front door. This can also be an inexpensive way to decorate, since you've probably collected a number of masks over the years. Put a mask on your scarecrow, on your garden features like statues, and even your kids' dolls. If you'll be using the masks outdoors, make sure that they are weatherproof.
Glass vases: You can fill glass vases with almost anything! Orange, red, brown, and gold are the traditional colors of fall, and you can use strictly black and orange right around Halloween if you wish. Try filling vases with colored leaves, marbles, or orange and black candies. If you want to really get gruesome, you can also use unusual things like plastic bugs!
Spider webs: Most people use the fake spider webs outside, but they'll last longer inside as well. The added bonus? It's OK if they get a little dusty! Spider webs are supposed to be spooky, so put away your cleaning products for a few weeks! Make sure that you spray your spider webs with repellent to deter any live inhabitants from making a home! If you want a less scary, try spraying the webs with spray glitter for a pretty touch.
Murals: Let your kids go crazy by painting a huge Halloween mural or banner. Buy a large piece of white cloth or even a white bed sheet and allow them to use paint or markets to create something your can display along your wall or even in your front yard. Allow your kids to be creative or, if your children are still young, outline the words "Happy Halloween" or "Trick or Treat" in big, black letters so that you've created a big coloring book page for them to color.
Small Changes: You can really make a big impact with just a few small changes. Put up orange and black curtains. Use a Halloween-designed throw rug. Cover the pots of your indoor plants with plastic Halloween containers. These little changes can really make a big difference in your overall holiday spirit!

The bottom line is that Halloween decorations can really help you to enjoy the holiday. You don't have to go overboard or even spend a lot of money to decorate your house. Choose a few key items both inside and outside, and you should be well on your way to a great Halloween. Every year, add a few more items to really build up to a wonderfully decorated house.

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DIY Halloween Decorations

Halloween is an occasion that can be enjoyed by both adults and children. Most events and parties are for either children or grown ups. It rarely happens that all age groups can celebrate together. In this article we will focus on home made Halloween decorations and how to involve your children when making them.

Before we get started, it must be stressed that making Halloween decorations, costumes and accessories is not for everyone. If you do not enjoy using your creative talents then don't do it. It will only result in stress and arguments, you are much better off visiting an online shop that sells Halloween party supplies and getting everything delivered direct to your door. The selection is fantastic and you will save both time and money.

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No matter what type of decorations you decide to make there are certain "tools" and craft supplies you will need. Any house with children will probably have most of the items already but check before you tell the kids that they will be making Halloween decorations. Items that you will need include, safety scissors, glitter glue, Halloween confetti, water soluble markers, coloured card, pipe cleaners, assorted costume accessories such as wigs and face paints.

DIY Halloween Decorations

Once you have selected a Halloween party theme, for example scary spiders, you can then start thinking about specific designs. This is where the internet comes in handy. Just do a quick search for Halloween templates and you will get a huge selection of designs including spiders, bats and ghosts. It should take no more than half an hour.

Outdoor decorations are just as important as indoor versions at Halloween. Before you finalise the items you are going to make ensure that they are weatherproof if they are to be used outdoors. There is no point making decorations if they are going to dissolve in heavy rain.

After getting all the craft supplies ready and confirming the theme you will need some firm suggestions as to what to make. In our opinion, if you do nothing else then carve or decorate a pumpkin. Halloween would not be the same without a smiling / scary pumpkin in the window. If your children are young then decorating the pumpkin rather than carving it is definitely a better choice.

Before decorating the pumpkin make sure you select one that is nice and smooth. It will help when trying to draw a design on it. Don't forget to cut the top off and scrape out the inside. When cleaning out the pumpkin leave about 1/2" on the inside. You will need the pumpkin to remain rigid.

Pumpkins do not have to last a long time. They are usually prepared the week before Halloween and are left up for a few days after Halloween night. Even so it is a good idea to apply a base coat of orange paint. This is not so important if you are carving a face on the pumpkin but if you are drawing a design then having a well prepared and smooth surface will help make you design stand out.

By the time you have got a nice smooth pumpkin and applied a base coat you will be keen to get going on the actual design. The key to success is to keep it simple. Don't go for an intricate design. Remember you just want the kids to have fun, it is not a master's degree. You may want to trace the design onto the pumpkin yourself and then let the kids crack on with the colouring.

There is no end to the number and type of Halloween decorations you can make. Another idea that is relatively easy to do is candle decorating. Just as with decorating a pumpkin get a nice smooth pillar candle in either black or orange. The bigger the better. You can then follow the same system of tracing a design onto the candle using a template downloaded from the internet. It is then just a matter of colouring between the lines. For best effect you should dig down a few mm into the candle so the design will stand out.

Halloween is a fun time of year and all the activities associated with the occasion should reflect that. There should be no pressure on the kids, they should be given the freedom to decorate as they see fit. You may end up having to do ninety percent of the work yourself, particularly when very young children are involved, but once you plan for that there should be few surprises.

If you are not interested in arts and crafts then you will not be short of alternatives. Scene setters, pinatas, and costumes are just some of the Halloween party supplies that can be easily sourced online. Even if you go down the shop bought route don't assume that the decorations will magically jump out of the box. You will still need time to get the most from them and make sure you have the scariest house in the neighborhood.

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Halloween party decorations are easy to make. Just make sure you have everything prepared well in advance. Alternatively you can purchase all your Halloween Party Supplies at party-shop.ie

How Did Halloween Begin?

It is believed that Halloween originated from a Celtic holiday known as Samhain, which was celebrated in Ireland and Scotland at harvest time for well over a thousand years. Samhain was the time of year (October 31st) when harvesting was completed and animals were brought from summer pastures to shelter for the winter months. At Samhain a large festival was celebrated, and fruits, vegetables, grain, and animals, were burned as gifts to the gods in huge bonfires in hope of a successful new year. It was believed that during the night of Samhain, that the dead could walk among the living, and that the living could ask the dead questions about the future year. Because they believed some of these spirits were evil, they wore costumes with animal heads to scare the spirits and protect themselves.

Christianity spread to the Celtic lands, and in the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV declared November 1st to be All Saints Day, otherwise known as "All Hallow's Day," hallow referring to sainted ones. All Saint's Day was to celebrate the holy saints and martyrs of Christianity. It is generally believed that this was an attempt to Christianize the popular Celtic holiday and diminish the importance of the Celtic ritual and the influence of their spiritual leaders, the druids. This is also how the day became known as All Hallow's Eve, or Halloween. All Soul's Day was similarly added in Christianity a couple hundred years later to celebrate the dead.

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Carving out turnips and lighting them goes back hundreds of years with the holiday. An Irish legend tells of a man named Jack who tricks the devil to turn into a coin and keeps him from changing back by placing the coin next to a cross. A year later, Jack dies, but is neither allowed into heaven, or hell, so he must roam the earth. The 1800's brought Halloween to the United States with the Irish immigrants. Pumpkins were carved rather than turnips because they were large and more plentiful.

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Great Prizes For Your Halloween Games

What's a game without a winner, and around the holidays, what's a winner without a prize? If you're going to plan Halloween games for your children, having some great prizes for the winner (and for all participants) can make them even more fun. Here are some ideas for awards:

Small Halloween Pumpkins Filled with Candy: Many children like to carry large plastic Halloween pumpkins when they go trick-or-treating. You can also find very small versions of these, which can be awesome for prizes to Halloween games. Fill them with candy or other Halloween items.

Stickers: Kids - both boys and girls - love Halloween stickers. These can be used to personalized school items like folders and notebooks, and you'll probably find them on your child's faces and hands as well. You can find Halloween stickers in many designs, and most are fairly inexpensive.

Candy Corn Filled Gloves: Find clear, plastic gloves and fill them with candy corn or, for a healthier option, popcorn. These have the "creepy" look you need for Halloween but kids absolutely love them!

Candied Applies: If you want to make sure that everyone gets a prize for participating, try starting a production line for candied apples. Allow the winner of the game to go first and have the kids line up to roll their applies in caramel and peanuts, small chocolate chips, or color coated candies. Everyone can make their own just they way they like it!

Plastic Bugs: Halloween is all about crawly, slimy things, so plastic bugs make great options. You can find these for relatively little money in just about any toy store, and most dollar stores also carry them in packs. Hide the bugs like you would hide Easter eggs and let the kids keep whichever ones they find. Just be prepared in case you find the lost ones under your pillow or between the seat cushions.

Coupon prizes: If you're playing Halloween games with just your children, you can give out coupons as prizes. Make them for things one day without having to make your bed or one free toy the next time you're at the mall. Kids love not having to do their chores, and these are prizes you can make pretty easily without much planning.

Hours of TV or Computer Time: If your kids fight over what to what on television or who gets to use the computer first, let them play a game with the winner being allowed to choose the program or use the computer first.

And what games can you play? There are tons from which to choose! If you want a more traditional game, choose bobbing for apples, but you can also pin the nose on the Jack-o-Lantern, race to "mummify" one another with toilet paper, and use magnets and paper clips to "fish" for prizes. The bottom line? Have fun with it! Join in some of the fun by getting involved yourself. Halloween games - especially if there are some prizes involved - can be great for the whole family.

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Dress Up Your House With Silhouettes For Halloween Appeal

Trick-or-treaters will enjoy your outdoor Halloween decor when you use simple silhouette's to lure them in. Any window, garage or flat surface on your house can be fair game to use as your canvas. Use double sided tape, temporary spray adhesive, or reusable adhesive putty (found at office supply stores) to secure your creations, yet allow for easy removal after the holiday is over.

Here's one neat idea for those of you that have a garage that faces the street - decorate the front of it with cutout black craft foam in the shape of a fence. Add a black cat sitting on the fence along with some bats flying around. You could add some low, ambience lighting to highlight your decorations.

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For those who wish to decorate their windows, use black poster board to cut out the shape of a bare tree with a wise owl peering out from one of its branches. In fact if you have a large window, why not create a whole Halloween graveyard scene?

Dress Up Your House With Silhouettes For Halloween Appeal

There are many shapes that can be cut into silhouettes to use as outdoor Halloween decorations. Some additional suggestions are:

a witch flying in front of a moon
a jack-o-lantern face
tombstones
a skeleton
a spider web and spider
ghostly trees
some ravens
black cauldron
witch broom and hat
Frankenstein and his monster friends
ghosts and ghouls
the grim reaper

Using cut out silhouettes for Halloween decorations is a simple and cost effective way to spook up your home without it being overly scary for youngsters. So why not try your hand at something different this year? You may be surprised at all the compliments you receive on your creative Halloween decor.

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Four Scary Halloween Decorations for Your Porch

Halloween has become a huge holiday. When I was a kid, it was all about homemade costumes and one night of trick-or-treating.

Today, Halloween is a full-fledged season for some families. Soon as September rolls around, people begin to plan for the holiday. Or should I say season?

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Four Scary Halloween Decorations for Your Porch

Create a bat haven on your porch. From stiffened black felt, cut out many black bats. Try various sizes. Use a template you get online. Then using masking tape or duct tape on the back, tape the bats to the walls of your porch. Tape some to your windows and porch railings, too. Some of the bats could hang down from the ceiling using black thread. You will have an eerie porch that will be noticed for sure!
Create a spider covered porch. Scary Halloween decorations are as easy as finding some super-sized spiders at your craft store or home improvement store. The bigger the better. You might even be able to find glow-in-the-dark spiders. Ewwww! While you're at it, pick up a package or two of that fake spider web material. Stretch it in the corners of your porch to create bigger-than-life spider webs. Hang the spiders from the ceiling, the porch columns, and the walls - anywhere you want many-legged creatures.
Rent a fog machine and play some creepy music. Who knows what lurks in the fog? Perhaps nothing but your trick-or-treaters will not know for sure. Playing eerie music combined with the rolling fog will create an aura of suspense and mystery.
Make a crypt look like it has been opened and strategically place a Mummy on your porch, making it look like he has risen from the dead! How about hanging a couple skeletons freely from the ceiling and clothe them in a black jacket and hat? That will scare the munchkins some! Of course, play some of that eerie creepy music and imaginations will go like crazy. Include some jack-o-lanterns around the porch with electric lights.

Your porch, whether large or small, can be a very fun place to decorate for the munchkins that come knocking at your door for treats. Or is it tricks that you generously give? No matter how scary your porch is, be nice to the kids who come by! Use your imagination to create something special that they will remember for a long time.

Haunted porch anybody?

Four Scary Halloween Decorations for Your Porch

Get more ideas about scary Halloween decorations for your porch as well as ideas for just plain enjoying your porch.

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10 Steps For Planning A Halloween Party - Creative And Creepy Halloween Ideas For Revelers Of All Ag

The sky is darkening. You feel a chill and ghostly horrors in the air as the moon shines brightly on this cloudless night. It is the last night of October, October 31st. It is officially Halloween night and you have decided to have a hauntingly exciting Halloween party. How ghoulishly delightful! But where do you start in planning your Halloween holiday celebration. Here are 10 steps to help you in planning a great Halloween Party that will have all those ghosts, wicked witches and grim goblins screaming with delight.

Step 1: Halloween Party Kickoff: Think about who the party is for - for you or your children? An adult Halloween party will be quite different from a children's Halloween party when it comes to planning the Halloween theme of the party, Halloween decorations, Halloween recipes and beverages. Adults and older children usually love to be frightened, but that is not the same for smaller children. So when planning your event keep the ages of your guests in mind. Once you have that figured out, now it is time to pick the date, time and place of your Halloween party. And don't forget the guest list.

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Step 2: Halloween invitations: This is where you can have fun and set the mood of your unforgettable night of horror chills and thrills by sending out unique and spookily inviting Halloween party invitations. You can purchase them or make some yourself with some construction paper and some glitter markers, or how about buying some inexpensive Halloween paper eye masks and writing the words on the back. Include all the important information such as date, time, place and a request for RSVP to your Halloween party.

10 Steps For Planning A Halloween Party - Creative And Creepy Halloween Ideas For Revelers Of All Ag

Step 3: Halloween party food and recipes: now the party would not be a party without a lot of great Halloween munchies. Plan a menu and write out your shopping list. Try to do as much in advance as possible, and try to pick Halloween recipes that can be made ahead and stored or frozen. And again, think of the ages of your guests - there are a lot of fun Halloween foods for both kids and adults. Here might be the place to use up some of those Halloween pumpkin guts.

Step 4:Haunted Halloween Pumpkins: plan to buy your pumpkins early to get the best selection. By selecting a variety of shapes and sizes of pumpkins, you will be able to make a variety of interesting jack-o-lanterns ghosts. And don't forget about those miniature pumpkins, they can make great party favors or Halloween decorations also. And the day before the party, carve your pumpkins and double check you have enough candles or use small flashlights to show off their ghostly grins.

Step 5: Halloween Costumes: there is always something exciting about putting on a Halloween costume and taking on another identity. So prepare yourself and your families Halloween party costumes in advance so that you don't have to run around in a panic trying to put something together at the last minute. It is easy to find a lot of great Halloween costume ideas that will not cost a lot of money or time.

Step 6: Halloween Party Games or Activities: Halloween games and craft activities are especially popular for younger Halloween party guests, but this does not mean that adults would not enjoy the fun of Halloween games and showing off their ghostly talents. So think about what Halloween activities your guests would be interested in and gather all the materials you need in advance. Also be sure to have some extra Halloween activities incase a game that you are expecting to take 45 minutes only lasts for 20. And do not forget the Halloween prizes, these can be easily and inexpensively assembled by a quick trip to your local novelty or dollar store or ordered online to be delivered straight to your door.

Step 7: Halloween music and sounds: there is no time then the present to start thinking about what kind of Halloween music you want at your Halloween party celebration. Are you looking for some fun party songs for dancing music, or hauntingly spooky background ghost music for a dinner party, or a collection of sing-a-longs for the kids. Also, you might want to incorporate some Halloween special effects outside with spooky horror sounds as your guests walk up to the front door. There are a lot of special music tapes or CD's available to purchase, or if your try making one on your own - it could be almost as much fun as the Halloween party itself.

Step 8:Halloween Party Favors: party favors add an extra treat of fun to any Halloween party and are a wonderful addition as a Halloween treat for each guest or something they can take home. They do not need to be elaborate Party Favors or costly and can range from a small plastic toy to a homemade individual bundle of snack mix wrapped in Halloween decoration style.

Step 9: Halloween Decorations: decorations for your front yard and house for Halloween can be a lot of fun and again does not need to be costly. You can get a lot of great eerie Halloween effects by experimenting with some horror lighting placed around your indoor and outdoor Halloween decorations. And adding in some Halloween music or ghost sounds can make some of your Halloween decorations come to life.

Step 10: Party Guests Arrival: today is the day - Halloween party Night, and your guests are about to arrive. Have a quick look around to see if all is in order and that your house is a safe setting. Keep a porch light on so everyone sees any steps or other obstacles, and make sure all your guests have a way back home after the Halloween festivities come to an end.

Final note: Remember that your Halloween party does not need to be elaborate, the main component of a great Halloween party are a few willing participants that want to have fun, a few simple Halloween decorations and props, toss in some spooky music and ghost sounds, and definitely the Halloween food - and you will have a smashingly and howling Halloween Party. So when the party starts, enjoy yourself! It will be a spookily great time.

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Home Made Halloween Decorations: Five Ideas You Can Make Yourself

1. A Googly Eye wreath

Things you will need for this; glue, a wreath, and googly eyes. This is nice and simple; the trick to this is the right wreath. If you have the wrong wreath it's not going to look right, it's just going to look strange. So the question is how do you know what wreath is the right kind of wreath, well there a simple answer to that, use an amazing new thing called, common sense. Ask your self, would that look right with googly eyes, oh no wait it would look really stupid, and then don't do it, find another wreath. So basically once you have found an appropriate wreath, guess what you do. You use glue to stick the googly eyes on, with your hands, which are attached to your arms, which are attached to your body. But remember, glue takes time to stick on. So leave it on a flat surface until it dries.

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2. Walking spider pumpkins

Home Made Halloween Decorations: Five Ideas You Can Make Yourself

Things you'll need for this, black pipe cleaners, a knife, and a couple of mini pumpkins.

Now this is what you do. You take a couple of pipe cleaners, then you stick them in a hole in the pumpkin that you made with the knife, I was talking about it earlier, remember that? I said you would need a knife, do you have a knife? Good! Now hurry up and make a hole in the stupid pumpkin! Then stick in the pipe cleaners and arrange them like spider legs! Now you can do this with a large pumpkin, but you would have to make the pipe cleaners bigger.

3.Carrot Fingers

Things you will need, a knife, and some carrots. That's it, try not to swallow your own tongue

Guess what your're going to do, that's right children, you are going to carve some finger shapes out of the carrots, as to why the fingers are orange, you'll have to come up with that one on your own.

4. Scary candles

Okay I am going to teach you three different things you can do with a candle, that's right, three, think you can keep up?

Things you'll need, thick candle, a knife, and a pack of matches. Now here's what you're going to do. You're going to carve a face in the thick candle, now, when you do this try not to cut your self like a moron, and if you do cut your self while doing this I hope you feel bad.

Here is the second idea, take a couple of tall white candles, and one red one. Can you guess what we're going to do? We're going to melt the red candle on the white ones, Bleeding Candles! Ooooooh scary, in case you can't tell yet, I don't like Halloween.

Okay last candle tip. Get a shallow vase, a black floating candle and some red die, die the water red and put in the candle. If you forgot to light the candle that's not my fault, you're just dumb.

5. creepy pictures

Things you'll need, family photos, Photoshop, the Internet, that's it.

Take any picture in your house provided it has people in it, go on the web find a skull, put the picture you find on the web in Photoshop over the picture your changing. The key to this is to fade the edges of the skull or it'll look like a bad Photoshop done by someone who didn't follow instructions. Oh, wait...

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How To Create Your Own Home Halloween Decorations

Whether to decorate your house or your classroom for Halloween, the best choice of decorations are the ones that you make yourself. Home Halloween decorations are fun to make and are really cost efficient in the long run. The camaraderie shared with your friends and family is priceless while you make home Halloween decorations. It is a creative experience that every child will remember doing. In some households it has become a family tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation. With just a few materials you can turn your house or classroom into a gruesome, scary, and fun place to have a party or to invite trick or treaters.

The basics of home Halloween decorations are simplicity. Orange and black construction paper is a must. You also need Elmer's glue, scissors, tape, and crayons or magic markers. The best way to start is to start at the top of the room. You can make a boarder to go around all four walls with a paper chain. Simply cut your orange and black construction paper into strips. Curl the strips into a ring and glue or staple them. They must be interlocked and should alternate in color from black to orange. If you really want to get gruesome you can add some blood red construction paper to the chain. To be more creative you can draw symbols of Halloween on each strip to give it more character and depth.

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While still working on the top of the room, think of things that dangle from the ceiling. You can make cut outs of the skull and crossbones, witches, black cats, or ghosts from your construction paper to make some great scary figures. The paper is light enough so if there is even the slightest breeze your figures will move with it in a eerie fashion. To make this home Halloween decoration more creative, you may want to create mobiles with the figures by hanging your cut outs on descending sticks hung by fishing line or twine. If you have extra cutouts paste them on whole sheets of construction paper to give it a colorful back ground.

How To Create Your Own Home Halloween Decorations

On your snack table, you can play a joke on your guests by decorating with Halloween food. You could glue all the candy corn together in a huge ball so that when a friend tries to take one, the whole glob of candy corn comes up in his hand. Think of eerie foods that you can serve like gummy worms and marshmallow eyeballs. Your can take the paper plates and draw monsters or scary images on them. Put on a scary movie in the background with the sound off. These can give the room an extra feature of the Halloween spirit. You might want to die your curtains orange or another Halloween color and put candles in the windows. From the outside the candle looks nice but from the inside the candle can cast eerie shadows on the curtain creating a cool special effect. The skies the limit with home Halloween decorations and your imagination and creativity will flourish once you get going.

How To Create Your Own Home Halloween Decorations

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7 Quick And Easy Halloween Decorations To Make For Your Classroom

Here are seven Halloween decorations you and your students can make quickly and easily. In most cases all you will need is some paper, glue and felt pens or paint.

1. Ghosts!

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Draw a large ghost on a piece of poster size card. This can be as simple as an upside down U shape with googly eyes and a zigzag mouth. Glue several white streamers to the bottom. Pin your giant ghost on the notice board for the class to see. Give each student a smaller version of your ghost printed on white A4 card. The students cut these out and glue white streamers to the bottom. Pin the smaller ghosts on the notice board as well. If there's room it's fun to add a speech balloon to each ghost.

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2. Gravestones

Cut a gravestone out of cardboard. Leave a flap at the bottom that can be folded back. This needs to be about a quarter of the height of the gravestone. This will enable the gravestone to stand up. Paint the gravestone grey. Use a sponge or brush to paint darker grey patches. Use a sponge or toothbrush to add black speckles. Use a black felt pen to write a name, date and epitaph. If possible drape with cobwebs and add a spider or two.

3. Borders

Use repeating pictures or patterns to create borders for noticeboards, windows and displays. Print out a copy of the picture you want to use, for each student in the class. If possible, print on lightly colored paper (green, orange, yellow). This will help the pictures create a unified effect when they are lined up. Let your students color the pictures. If they all use the same medium the effect will be stronger (crayon, felt pen, pencil).

4. Raffia

String teased out raffia across a wall in the classroom. Sticky tape cut out pictures that your students have colored to the string, creating a pinched effect at the site of each picture. The rough texture of Raffia and the strings that fall down create a great effect.

5. Dead Tree

Use a dead tree branch to create a classroom display. Place a leafless tree branch in a bucket filled with sand or stones. This works best if you use one with several smaller branches on it. Spray paint it black or let a small group of students paint it black with brushes. Use string to hang pictures and decorations. Add cobwebs and spiders if possible.

6. Bats Everywhere!

Bats fly in large groups. Let your students paint (or color with crayons) a whole bunch of bats. These look great if you paste them to the wall. Have them coming through the door, up and across the wall and then up to the ceiling.

7. Paper Lantern

Make orange paper lanterns with black lanterns to hang on a string stretched across the classroom. To make the lantern, fold A4 paper in half lengthways. Then cut into the card starting at the fold and ending 1cm before the end of the paper. Continue making these cuts every 1cm.
Unfold the paper and glue the two short ends together. Cut a strip of paper to make a handle and glue this to the top of the lantern.

7 Quick And Easy Halloween Decorations To Make For Your Classroom

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Do-It-Yourself Halloween Decorations

You can turn any home into a haunted house for Halloween by adding the right Halloween decorations. Here are simple do-it-yourself suggestions for Halloween decorations that you, your family, and the neighbors will enjoy this fall.

Gourd candleholders
Dim lighting is essential in creating the right Halloween mood so work on that as the first of your Halloween decorations. Create a low light atmosphere in your home by using candles instead of overhead lighting. To create a spooky candleholder, cut a hole in the center of a gourd, squash, or miniature pumpkin. This might be hard to do so start by gently rocking the knife back and forth until you create a slit. Keep moving the knife carefully until there is an open section large enough to hold a candle.

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Safety warning: Make sure you put the candleholder on a tray with aluminum foil. As with all Halloween decorations, advise your children to stay away from the flame.

Witch's cauldron
To create the ultimate witch's cauldron you will need a large bowl, dry ice, and water. You can purchase dry ice from a local ice cream parlor or grocery store. Put the dry ice in a container with a tight lid. Then submerge the container in water. Warm water will produce more smoke that will disappear rapidly while colder water will produce less smoke that will last longer. You can put the cauldron at your front door or as the centerpiece on your dining room table.

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Safety warning: Do not touch the dry ice with your bare hands. Either use tongs or thick gloves. Make sure that children do not play with the dry ice.

Glowing ghosts
A glowing ghost is the perfect example of how simple and fun making Halloween decorations can be. Activate a mini glow stick, slip it inside a balloon, and blow up the balloon. Position the knot of the balloon at the top center and use a black marker to make a face. Use a thin or transparent white cloth to cover the balloon, cut a small hole in the cloth and push the knot through so you can tie a string to it and hang it from a tree, your door, or a lamppost in your front yard. Your glowing ghost will blow in the wind, letting all your neighbors know that Halloween has arrived.

Halloween's just around the corner. It's that time of year again when ghosts and goblins roam the streets. Here are some ideas for Halloween costumes that are easy to execute.

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Make Halloween Props That Will Make'Em Scream

Halloween is the second most decorated holiday of the year, people love to make props to decorate their home and garden. Some people buy all decorations and props and others make their props by hand. If you think its hard to make everything yourself you can also choose to mix bought items and home made props, this way you safe time, money and have a scary home. Here are some really fun and easy ways to create Halloween props for the entire house.

Halloween props for the front yard

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It is fun to decorate the front yard for Halloween because so many people will see it. Everyone who will walk or drive trough the street will see what you have created. You can make Halloween props yourself and you can think of items like pumpkins on the porch, a huge tarantula from large trash bags or a big spider web in the bushes. You can also create props like "old" grave stones in the yard.

Make Halloween Props That Will Make'Em Scream

The other option you have for the front yard is to see it a bit larger and rent or buy one or more professional Halloween props, these can be animated. Lights and sound are also a crucial when you want to scare people. But for the front yard you should buy outdoor lights because you never know what weather it is going to be. Buying or renting a fog machine and some sound effects for added enjoyment will certainly make people talk for a long time a bout what they experienced in your yard.

Make props for the Halloween Living Room

Decorating the living room is for your own family and your guest the place where they will spend most of their time, so this is the room where you need to put in some effort. Still the living room should not be over decorated, it also needs to stay a place where you can be yourself and relax. You can buy some Halloween stickers or hang ups for the windows and walls. A home made dish with candy or candy apples is nice for the coffee table and you can make props like figurines for special effects on the table.

Make Halloween props for the Kitchen

Just as the living room, the kitchen is a place you do not want to over decorate because you need to be able to use it for its original function. You can use Halloween dish clothes around the kitchen and create Halloween props like place mats on the table. But we would advice you to try to find a scary Halloween center piece for the kitchen table or counter top, in prop shops you have props that seem to come from the butcher that move and bleed. They are real scary and you just need one item (like the moving hand see link below) to create the most scary kitchen in the neighborhood.

Make props for the Rest of the Halloween House

The rest of the house is totally up to you, there are so many cute or scary Halloween decorations you can buy or make like Halloween bed sheets, toilet covers and towels. But also Halloween figurines for each room for the windows. For the windows that look at the front yard you can best create props that fit with your yard decoration. If you decide to make props yourself you will notice that its fun and exciting to do. But it does not matter if you buy or make Halloween props, if you store them carefully you can add something each year. In a few years you will have the best decorated home for the Halloween holiday you can dream about.

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Easy Halloween Yard Decoration Ideas

Your yard gives you the opportunity to unleash all your creativity and really think big when it comes to decorating for the favorite spooky holiday - Halloween. But that does not mean you have slave around for hours making and putting up the decorations. Here are some quick and easy ideas for decorating your yard this Halloween:

1. Scarecrows set the mood. Purchase or make a scarecrow and display it in your yard. Make him stand in the center on in a corner or make him sit on a bench, on the steps or on the fence.

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2. Wreaths make the yard look very pretty. Choose from grapevine wreaths or black and orange Halloween wreaths to suit your tastes and decorate walls and front door by hanging them.

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3. Use pumpkins in every place for an instant 'Halloween' touch. Place them on the steps, porch railing and benches or grouped together in unexpected places. When grouping together, mix all shapes, sizes and colors.

4. Gourds are another natural decoration for yards for Halloween. String them to make garlands for fences or place them in baskets.

5. Witches and brooms make for great decorations. Make a purchased or made witch sit on the branch of a tree or on a bench. You can also simply use the broom near the tree or at the front steps and add a sign that 'The Witch is Up There' or 'The Witch is in'.

6. Garden stakes come in various designs for Halloween. Choose ghosts, witches, pumpkins or whatever else fits your theme and choice. They are great scene setters and look especially pretty when placed between plants.

7. Nature's own decorations can provide fall colors to your décor. Use lots of potted annuals like mums, begonias, dahlias etc. to decorate your yard. You can also use things like fall foliage, dried flowers, seed heads, hay bales etc.

8. Lastly, make a clear pathway for the trick-or-treaters to come in to your front door. Add ropes along the sides or use luminarias to keep them from trampling your plants or flowerbeds.

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Halloween Porch Decorating Ideas to Wow Your Trick-Or-Treaters

The front porch is the focal point for Halloween decorating. Don't you think? Your porch can have just a touch of Halloween - jack-o-lanterns and pumpkin banner. Or your porch can be full-out haunted. Even I would not want to put foot on some of these creepy porches. Would you?

How do you decorate your porch to wow your trick-or-treaters?

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I have some fun and easy porch decorating ideas that both big and small kids will enjoy. Try these...

Halloween Porch Decorating Ideas to Wow Your Trick-Or-Treaters

Ghosts never go out of style. Ghosts are not hard to make. Create ghosts that are "standing" on your porch or driveway by criss crossing two broom sticks or dowels. Then hang an old white sheet or white garbage bag from them. Draw ghost faces with black markers. Also create a few smaller ghosts (without the broom sticks) that are simply hung from the ceiling to sway in the breeze. Ewwwww!
Use natural elements. Encircle your porch's columns with broom corn. Tie it snugly with dried willow sticks. Choose kale, gourds, squash and pumpkins that are unusual, bumpy, even ugly! Make spider webs from hemp fibers. Dye bamboo black and use it to create perches for store-bought ravens. Carve pumpkins and light up with tea lights placed inside. More ewwww! Be sure that lit candles are out of the way from excited trick-or-treaters.
Light your walkway with skull or pumpkin lights. Draw in the goblins with a safely lit-up pathway. Pile up pumpkins and gourds along the way. How about a few gigantic furry spiders to add some scare factor? Play some creepy music, too. That always kicks in the ominous feelings on Halloween night. Bushels of colorful mums add a splash of vibrance, too.
Create gourd or squash candle holders to create a dimly lit Halloween mood. Create a spooky candleholder by cutting a hole in a gourd or squash that is large enough to accommodate a candle. A battery operated candle is the safest bet. Cutting the gourd or squash (or even a small pumpkin) should be done by an adult. You might need to start by scooping out a little and keep working at it until the hole is large enough for the candle. Always keep children and their costumes away from candles. That's why a battery-operated candle is a much safer bet. Safety warning: If using a regular candle with a flame, put the candle holder on a metal tray with foil. Keep it away from trick-or-treaters or pets.

It's pretty easy to decorate for Halloween with things you already have around the house - like old sheets, broom sticks, and harvest from your garden. The most important thing is to have fun and be very safe. I hope you enjoyed these Halloween decorating ideas.

Halloween Porch Decorating Ideas to Wow Your Trick-Or-Treaters

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Decorating Outside Your Home For Halloween (A Spooky Theme)

For many people the best part of Halloween is being able to decorate the outside of their home. This doesn't have to be limited to just the front yard. Decorating the backyard can create a very spooky atmosphere. You can even design a detour that will take each of your guests on a long walk that circles the backyard before leading them to the entrance. This way they get to enjoy the full benefits of your decorating efforts.

The traditional pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns make great additions when you decorate the outside of your home for Halloween. The light that these decorations give off will help your guest to see their way around and add the perfect lighting to create scary shadows that surround the other decorations. Ghost and goblins are an old favorite that can still make your guest look over their shoulder twice. Don't be afraid to get very creative with these items. Some of the newer designs are now being made inflatable to help give them an even more lifelike appearance.

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The use of a fog machine can create an illusion that can make your yard the spookiest of all. This is especially true when you litter the lawn with fake body parts and fake blood splattered all about the area. The fog just intensifies the whole spooky theme. Don't forget about a special door bell ring that alerts you of the incoming guest with screams, howling or some other unique Halloween greeting. You can even have a host that is decked out in one of the scariest costumes around to stand outside your door to personally welcome each and every one of you Halloween guest.

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Add special sound effects that will begin whenever your guest walks past a certain area. You can also use props that are programmed on a timer to go off at specific intervals. Spider webs are also a great decorating idea that will help you to create a spooky outdoor theme. Make sure that you don't forget the customary black cat and maybe a witch or two sitting in the trees watching the guest wondering by. It's just not Halloween without a few traditional items.

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Halloween Yard Decorations

Halloween yard decorations make Halloween just that much more fun. Have you ever driven around when it's close to Halloween and marveled at the outdoor Halloween decorations some Halloween fanatics contrive and wonder how'd they come up with that idea? Well you don't have to wonder any more, you too can create your own spooky Halloween decoration ideas.

Halloween Props

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You're going to need some Halloween props to dress up the yard and get it looking haunted. It's fun to arrange the spooky Halloween decorations so they send a shiver up the spines of those who venture through?

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Those lighted skeleton are great, they looks pretty realistic. A favorite one mimics body parts sticking up from the ground there's a light in the skull that flickers on and off. The light is enough to show the whole body. Another one that's a bit scarier is about two foot tall. This eerie skeleton head, torso and arms when in place looks like he's coming right up out of the ground and its eyes are blazing with lights.

Another guy expected to show up at this time of year is the Grim Reaper or you may call him the Angel of Death. He's good as an indoor or outdoor Halloween yard decorations.

No haunted yard is complete without Halloween tombstone decorations for that spooky graveyard scene. They're available in several sizes and many different Halloween tombstone sayings.

Inflatable Halloween Yard Decorations

Inflatable Halloween yard decorations are lots of fun and a great way to brighten up your yard. You can choose from a 5 foot tall animated skull or a 6 foot tall animated black cat or a 9 foot high pumpkin stack. All three light up and inflate in seconds.

For those of you who are more ghoulish at heart there's all those body parts. Put your creative mind to work using bloody legs, arms, hands, feet, brains, hearts and severed heads. They're made from latex and they look creepy and real.

When you finally get all your Halloween yard decorations in place it's time to add that finishing touch. Watch your haunted yard come alive with all those ghosts and goblins and vampires and witches when you turn on those scary sounds. Most scary sound machines comes with remote control and have several horrifying sounds that are sure to thrill trick-or-treaters of all ages.

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How to Find Outdoor Halloween Decorations

Everyone knows this can be an expensive proposition to get the look and feel that frankly, scares the daylights out of anyone entering their yard. There are many Halloween decorations available and this article is about finding the best ones at reasonable prices and making your own outdoor props to cut costs.

There are many types of options when it comes to outdoor decorating for Halloween, and the main ones we will cover are:

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* motorized or mechanical devices

How to Find Outdoor Halloween Decorations

* inflatable Halloween props

* homemade outdoor decorations

Any of these three options can help you create the outdoor theme you want this Halloween and you can combine these techniques to find a theme that fits best into your seasonal budget.

The main points most of us are faced with when trying to design a theme for our outdoor decorations this Halloween are:

1. What type of decorations can I justify?

2. What type of outdoor look am I going for this Halloween?

3. How can I make my own props the way I want stay within budget?

How do I Find Outdoor Halloween Decorations Online?

There are hundreds of places online that sell outdoor Halloween decorations and some of them offer coupons and other discounts and many just offer really low prices. Once you know what theme you are going for you can then decide which items to look for. So you need to know which items are the most common to use for decorating outdoors and where to find the best deals. It's best to find a place where someone has researched this and found the most popular decorations at low prices.

How to Find Outdoor Halloween Decorations

So to find the best deals on motorized, inflatable and even homemade decoration ideas for this Halloween, visit Outdoor Halloween Decorations. They have found some really popular items and great deals and can save you a great amount of time and effort to find them yourself.