Happy Halloween!
When our children were little,
Halloween was their favorite holiday because we
decorated our Victorian home like the Haunted Mansion at
Disneyland. My husband went all out with dry ice in our
fountain and moving "ghosts" tied to a rope in the tall
trees.
Because we believe that you can
have fun decorating your home without going into debt,
here are some Halloween decorating tips that don't cost
too much.
Low-Cost Halloween Decorating Ideas
by Jeanette Joy Fisher
Halloween is a uniquely special time of year, regardless
of whether you're a kid or just a kid at heart. It's a
holiday time that offers lots of wonderful opportunities
to decorate your home creatively, since the subject
matter is different from any other holiday. If you're
thinking about decorating your porch and yard for the
spookiest night of the year, you can do it without
having to spend a lot of money. Here are a few low-cost
ideas for showing your Halloween spirit to the world:
You can get rolls of yellow Caution tape (the type you
see at crime or disaster scenes to keep people out of
certain areas) fairly inexpensively at most hardware
stores, and if you put it up around the perimeter of
your yard, accompanied by a sign that says something
like "Fright Scene: Enter at Your Own Risk," it can give
an eerily spooky ambience while also offering guests a
wary smile.
You can enhance that spookiness either more by replacing
your regular porch light with a black light bulb. Adding
a few Halloween-oriented items like skulls and ghost
figures that glow in the dark will be even more
effective.
If you want your pumpkins to last longer (and even to be
reusable when you scrap your Halloween decorations and
begin decorating for Thanksgiving), don't carve them.
Paint them with acrylic paint. You can create an
infinite variety of faces or scenes, and your pumpkins
will last much longer. There's also none of the mess
involved with carving them. Place your pumpkins in
groups of three to five of varying sizes and shapes. It
makes for a much more effective display.
A little paint can go a long way in creating
great-looking tombstones, too. You can paint simple
boards grey and then use black paint to add silly or
scary epitaphs that will delight visitors. Things like:
"See? I Told You I Was Sick" can bring smiles, but you
can also create scarier epitaphs to bring out the more
ghoulish side of your nature.
You can create some wonderfully spooky scenes in your
windows by cutting out silhouettes of the various
Halloween icons, such as black cats, witches, and
skeletons, out of construction paper. When it gets dark,
your windows will take on a lovely macabre look when the
light is blocked out by those eerie objects.
Simple scarecrow-type figures, topped with rubber
Halloween masks, can also be effective in adding some
scare factor to your front porch and lawn. Just stuff a
shirt and pair of pants with straw or leaves, add the
mask, and you've got an instant horror figure for just a
little time, imagination, and very little money.
Halloween is a time when anyone can be a kid at heart.
You can celebrate the spookiest holiday of them all to
your heart's content without having to break the bank in
the process. With a little thought, you can create
great-looking Halloween decorations. You're limited only
by your imagination.
Enjoy!
Just in time
for Halloween Fun and decorating! We found the best
source (and low price) for
Fun House Mirrors. Decorate your home with something
different! Children of all ages love carnival mirrors
and you can get your own for an unbelievable low price.
Look for the large size for only $27 with free shipping.
Manufactured in the USA.
Copyright © 2006 Jeanette J. Fisher
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