4 Easy Ideas For Halloween Decorations For Your Yard

Some communities are rather dull and drab during the holidays, while others go all out and decorate with style. This occurs at Halloween time as well as other holidays. Here are some easy ideas I have seen over the years that will transform your yard on October 31st:

Jack-O-Lanterns - These are still the best yard decorations, as they can be done by adults and children together. Kids love scooping out all that goopy mess inside, while adults like the illuminated finished product. Don't forget to go online and look for cut-out stencils. Instead of carving out a face this year, you can carve a hissing black cat with his back arched or a witch in front of a moon.

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Cardboard Cut-Out Headstones - These are so simple! All you have to do is cut out headstone shapes from an old box and paint them with a glittery or flat gray paint. If you want to get really crafty, you can add names of friends you are sure will be stopping by to the stones, along with a rhyming cause of death. The popular example I remember goes: "Here lies good ol' Fred. A great big rock fell on his head." Not only will they make the yard look great, but they will be a conversation piece, as well.

4 Easy Ideas For Halloween Decorations For Your Yard

Hanging Bats and Spiders - Craft stores everywhere carry plastic bats and spiders during the Halloween season. If you have trees in your front yard anywhere, hang these decorations all over them with clear fishing line. You can add an extra touch to the spiders by putting a bunch of the spider web decorations in the tree branches along with the spiders. You can also find strings of bat and spider lights, which are exactly like Christmas lights. These make fun additions to your decoration repertoire.

Illumination Bags - Not only are these great decorations, but they keep the trick-or-treaters safe. Bags with little lights or candles inside will light the way to your front yard, helping the eager kids avoid falls. Look for safe instructions to make your own or buy them in bulk to line your driveway and sidewalk.

How you decorate and what you decorate with are really up to you. You don't have to spend a lot of money to make your front area attractive to those trick-or-treaters who might be visiting.

4 Easy Ideas For Halloween Decorations For Your Yard

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The Best Haunted House Props to Make a House Terrifying

Turning an ordinary house into a haunted house is not an easy thing to do. You need to plan everything and make sure that the theme will be real terrifying especially if this is for Halloween. The decorations and props have to match in order to be successful in achieving your desired theme.

You don't have to worry about making the props yourself because there are many haunted house props that are for sale at very cheap prices. Just make sure to match these props in order to avoid a tacky haunted house as a result.

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The Best Haunted House Props

The Best Haunted House Props to Make a House Terrifying

Gore props and animatronics

These are two of the best props available that will create a very scary atmosphere. These props cost a little more than others but will surely terrify most people especially kids. These props can be placed in different areas inside and outside of the house. Gore props are very eerie and can scare even adults.

These props usually come in bloody body part designs and corpses. Animatronics are a lot scarier because these props move suddenly which this scares and surprises most people. These props combined with other decorations will really help in creating a haunted house for Halloween or any party.

Music and Sound Effects

Getting a particular CD that goes with the theme of the house is very important in order to have an overall terrifying impact on neighbors and visitors. These can also be programmed to play when someone is near a particular prop in order to surprise the person/s.

Screams and scary laughter are the most common sound effects for the scariest of houses. Music is also helpful in creating a scary atmosphere. Orchestral music for horror scenes in movies can be very useful in achieving this and making the overall impact terrifying.

Ghost illusions props are probably the best props that will create a scary atmosphere at any house. These can be made with the use of a guide online or a DVD. Ready-made ghost illusions are also for sale but the price is a little steep. You can also buy DVDs that can be projected to walls and special screens for a great ghost illusion. This is commonly used for high-end parties and events.

Spiders and Spider Webs

Spiders and spider webs are also good haunted house props. It is very important to use these props properly and make them look authentic or else these will just look cheap and tacky. These can be placed in different areas inside and outside the house. There are many kinds of spider web props from glow in the dark webs to authentic-looking webs. It is very important that these props properly go with the theme of the haunted house for the best overall results.

You also need some other scary decorations like dolls and inflatables so you can get a real terrifying haunted house look. Life-sized scary posters of characters from horror movies can also be helpful in achieving a scary look when used correctly. Halloween lights are also very useful in creating a spooky haunted house atmosphere. Fog machines can also be used to get that extra terrifying effect.

The Best Haunted House Props to Make a House Terrifying

A spooky Halloween and haunted house props go hand in hand. Your house will appear more real and gruesome than ever when you visit this great spooky decorations website at http://spookyhalloweendecorations.org/.

Creepy Halloween Party Decorations For an Adult Halloween Party

When done right, good Halloween party decorations and props can give your adult guests genuine chills they'll remember long after the party. One of the most effective ways to give your decor more psychological impact is to choose a theme. A coherent theme helps set the mood better than a collection of random decorations.

Straight Out of a Horror Movie

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If you're a movie buff, this theme will be easy to create. Say your favorite scary movie is Psycho. Set up your entry way to look like the lobby of the Bates motel, complete with guest book. In the living room, dress up a corpse or skeleton prop as the late Mrs. Bates. And don't forget to put the remains of poor Marion Crane in the shower. With the horror movie set theme, details really help. Using the Psycho theme as an example, you might hang a lenticular changing portrait in your living room and label it "Mother."

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Haunting Ghosts

Even those who claim they "don't believe in ghosts" still get a little spooked by seemingly paranormal activity when the mood is right. To really rock the ghost theme, don't skimp on your ghost decorations and props. Hanging bed sheets won't cut it. What you want, at least for your most visible ghosts, are specters that look like they used to be human. It's the twisted faces, pale skin and hollow eyes that really creep people out. If you have some room in your Halloween decorations budget, look into a ghost illusion prop. These project semi-transparent, 3-D figures that look disturbingly realistic. Ghost illusion DVDs will get you a similar effect cheaper.

A Night with the Devil

This is another theme that's more about chills than gore. To get the most out of this theme, set up a devil prop that's as life-like as you can find. Place him where your guests will be spending most of their time, whether that's in the living room or outside around a bonfire. To compliment your devil, pick up some ghouls and demons. Decent motion- or sound-activated animated demons can be found for less than . Hang up a few winged demons and leave standing ones lurking in dark corners. Placing one outside on a window ledge looking in also creates a nice creepy effect.

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Once you have a theme in mind, decorating is just a matter of knowing where to get affordable, quality Halloween party decorations and how to set them up for the greatest impact. Visit HalloweenPartyDecorations.org for cheap décor and props and ideas on setting them up.

Out on a Limb on Halloween - Using Tree Branches For the Best, Spookiest, Cheapest Decorations Ever!

This is one of the most overlooked Halloween decorations you can do...for FREE! And, you might just find it in your own backyard! Forget the expensive paper, plastic, and styrofoam junk from the stores. If you want a lot of boo-per-buck, go find some dead tree branches!

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Skill level: Super Easy.

Out on a Limb on Halloween - Using Tree Branches For the Best, Spookiest, Cheapest Decorations Ever!

Time needed: 30 minutes - 1 hour.

Expense: TOTALLY FREE!

"Trees are NOT just for Christmas!"

Hit the streets and look for branches that have fallen off of the trees. For indoor centerpieces or "trim", gather up a lot of twigs and small branches. I live in Los Angeles (very urban... not a rural country road), and I see branches and limbs on the ground every single day on the streets and sidewalks. These are yours for the taking, and they will give you the biggest bang for "no bucks!" For outdoor decorations, the size of the branches are merely limited to what you can carry or haul away. I head out in my car and carry a battery operated saw so that I can trim down massive limbs to fit into the back of my car.

The awesome thing about dead tree branches is that they are typically "made to order" perfect for Halloween. Obviously, look for the more "spooky" ones with some density and a lot of "branching" because this may come in extra handy if you want to add spider webbing.

Use rope and/or bungie cords to fasten the branches to pillars, posts, mailboxes, entry ways...wherever you can find a sturdy place to support the weight. Use some extra awareness regarding your Halloween visitors: Make sure there are no (sharp) branches pointing out at eye-level (both adults' and kids' eye level.) Make sure there's no way a heavy branch can easily be pulled down by a child or slip off of its mount. Safety with huge "props" is a paramount concern.

The bigger the branches and the more branches that you use outside, the more decrepit and awesome your haunted castle will be. Aside from "filling in the vacant holes" in between your store-bought or home-made props, it adds to the ambiance. I say "no home haunting is complete without 'em!"

Another great thing to do is to add decorations to the branches! ('sounds familiar! But don't pull out any Christmas ornaments!) The best thing is to add the readily available Halloween spider webbing to the branches. You can do this on small interior centerpieces or the massive exterior haunted trees. The webbing is extremely easy to work with on tree branches because you can easily spin, pull, and threat strands from branch to branch. A quick "side bar" on webbing: If ever there was a Halloween Decorations decorating "offense" that people should be ticketed for, it's blobby webbing on bushes and walls. What the heck? Webbing is just that: WEBBING. NOT BLOBBING! A spider web should have taught strands and look like...uh...webs! --not clumps of cotton! The trick is to work the bag-o-webs down to little clumps and then pull them long and far into strands from branch to branch. Put a little time and art into this. Would you throw a pile of garland onto a Christmas tree? (Don't answer that... I have a feeling the same offenders might do just that!)

If you are using any of the black-light tricks and the tree limbs will be near the lights, you might consider spray painting the limbs with fluorescent paint. You can either coat 'em, or lightly dapple them.

One last totally free "trick" that's overlooked is leaves! If you are "lucky enough" to have them already on the lawn...leave them there over Halloween. If, like me here in Los Angeles, you don't have any on the lawn, just go looking for a pile somewhere. Again, even though we live in a warm climate here, there are many, many trees that lose their leaves. I take a garbage bag, hunt some down, and bring them home to sprinkle on the lawn. It's especially great to put them around tombstones and such. There's nothing more "half decorated" than a bunch of "scary tombstones" on top of a well manicured lawn. For Halloween...messier is better!

Without a doubt, these "nature's freebies" are the best, easiest, cheapest, biggest tricks to add to your Halloween Decoration displays.

Out on a Limb on Halloween - Using Tree Branches For the Best, Spookiest, Cheapest Decorations Ever!

Bill Lae is an award-winning visual effects artist and Halloween Haunter. As one of Hollywood's effects artists, Bill worked for all the networks using his magic touch on TV's top shows including The X-Files, Buffy, & The Outer Limits. He created BigScreamTV http://www.BigScreamTV.com a series of DVDs anyone can use to create in-home Halloween effects with a TV. He also shot a how-to DVD called X-Treme Haunted House Make-Over where he shows folks how to haunt the house for little cost. His love for Halloween started long before he came to LA. As a child he made haunted houses in his parents' basement. In LA, he began mixing easy-to-use technology (DVD players, computers, printers, lights) with other household items to "trick out" his own house every Halloween. At last count, he had 700 trick-or-treaters. "It's my favorite holiday," Bill says. "I especially love amazing the hardened, media-savvy, teen-age critics. And it truly is the one time when everyone has the opportunity to give unconditionally-giving candy to strangers!" For more Halloween Projects: http://www.booityourself.com.