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Halloween decorations are huge these days! I walk through neighborhoods at this time of year and the decorations in the windows, on front porches, and in the yards are almost as amazing and as elaborate as the Christmas holidays.
Birthday in a Box has fabulous Halloween decorations this year. Check them out!
If you are looking to decorate your own abode this season, but you want to stick within a friendly budget, here’s how you can use everyday items to create spooky Halloween decorations for your home, your Halloween party … and beyond!
Construction paper: Use construction paper to create ghosts, pumpkins, bats, spiders, and other spooky creatures.
You can get as creative as you like: make half ghosts that peek out around corners as an example. For the pumpkins, orange paper would make the body, brown for the stem, green for the leaves, and black for the cutouts to make the face.
If you are using black construction paper for the bats and black cats you can use chalk rather than gel pens. If you want to make the bats and ghosts fly, punch a small hole at the top of the creations, and thread a fishing line through the hole and hang over vents or near a door that is opening and closing frequently so that they “fly.”
Balloons: Blow up balloons, place material, such as a small white sheet over the balloon, tie the neck with a string, and use a black marker for a ghostly face. Hang the ghosts using the fishing line and suspending it from the neck of the ghost.
Old Clothes: Take an old pair of jeans, plaid shirt, work gloves, shoes, and hat and a brown paper bag to create the victim of a terrible Halloween murder. Have the kids rake up the leaves in the yard to collect the leaves for stuffing the victim. The face can be the brown paper bag stuffed with the leaves and the hat pulled down over the bag to hide that there really isn’t a face there. You can place fake blood all over the victim’s wounds as well. You can buy it commercially from Amazon.com
Cardboard Boxes: Either place the victim in a chair on the front porch or sitting under a tree in the front yard. You can make a graveyard out of your front yard by using old cardboard appliance boxes. Cut them down to tombstone size, spray paint them black, and then use white paint to outline the headstone. Using a small paint brush, paint different, spooky, funny, and anything-goes epithets on the tombs. Place them in the front yard, weighing them down with a brick.
Spider Web: A spider web that you buy at your local drugstore or Oriental Trading Company will go a long way in decorating any corner area of your home and/or front porch. They often come with some plastic spiders as well for further decorations.
Candles: Orange and black candles illuminating your home would also be an additional decoration, or you can line the walkway to your front door with Halloween luminaries. Extra votive candles can often be purchased in bulk as well.
Bales of hay and Indian corn would also add a festive Autumnal touch to your yard. This should get your mind brewing with creative Halloween decorations for the season!
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