Halloween is a great time to have some family fun! It's the perfect excuse to turn your normal suburban home into an eerie haunted house, or foggy graveyard, or haunted pirate ship, with the spooky crew to go with it (aka- the kids)!
Kids love Halloween! It's almost as good as Christmas when you pull out all those boxes full of decorations and costumes. As your family rummages through the boxes of Halloween stuff, your children gradually turn into witches, faeries, and vampires... Complete with fangs! Suddenly your house is full of spiderwebs and ghosts, and hands that grab at you when you try to get a chip out of the snack bowl. Yet, instead of being frightened, the kids love it.
If you don't have any kids, or if you'd rather they weren't out wandering the neighborhood, you can have attractions at your own home for everyone. If you're a more conservative person, carving a pumpkin, sticking a candle in it and setting it by your front door is good for you. But if you're a person who loves to go all-out on the holidays, there are so many options out there you can change it every year!Decorating your front doorway is a great option if you're short on time. You can make the entrance of your home a creepy entryway into the unknown. Hang intricate spiderwebs with scary spiders, prop a fake (or real!) zombie on a chair, and play spooky music! The littlest trick or treaters will be wary of this house!
However, if you need Halloween decorating ideas to go all out in your decor, here are some great ideas! Change the lighting outside your house. You can either change your existing bulbs to orange and black lights, or add strands of skeleton or pumpkin lights to your bushes and house. Use flashing strobe lights for a really awesome effect.Turn your front yard into a spooky graveyard! Set up tombstones with bony skeletons, spiderwebs, and a fog machine. Add some eerie music in the background to make it really spooky! Have some witches in the
middle stirring their smoking cauldron or bats and ghosts hanging from the trees. You can even make the ghosts using white trash bags, some newspaper, and permanent markers! The trick or treaters will have to be brave little souls to approach this house!
Do you have a large boat? Park it in front of your house and make it into a pirate ship! Decorate it with lights and skulls and crossbones, and dress the kids up as the "pirates"! They can throw candy down to the trick-or-treaters as they walk by.
Make a haunted house in your backyard! Use clotheslines and sheets to make a path, and have the kids and some friends lay in wait for non-suspecting passerbys. If you'd rather open your house up, you can decorate a room or two with some creepy wall coverings, webs, etc and have a Halloween party! Make Halloween treats and punch and play the Monster Mash and other great Halloween party music.
Whatever your budget and time restraints, you can find tons of Halloween decorating ideas out there today, and the choices get better every year! Whether you buy them or make them yourself with your family, have fun and enjoy this time with your family! Happy Halloween!
Kids love Halloween! It's almost as good as Christmas when you pull out all those boxes full of decorations and costumes. As your family rummages through the boxes of Halloween stuff, your children gradually turn into witches, faeries, and vampires... Complete with fangs! Suddenly your house is full of spiderwebs and ghosts, and hands that grab at you when you try to get a chip out of the snack bowl. Yet, instead of being frightened, the kids love it.
If you don't have any kids, or if you'd rather they weren't out wandering the neighborhood, you can have attractions at your own home for everyone. If you're a more conservative person, carving a pumpkin, sticking a candle in it and setting it by your front door is good for you. But if you're a person who loves to go all-out on the holidays, there are so many options out there you can change it every year!Decorating your front doorway is a great option if you're short on time. You can make the entrance of your home a creepy entryway into the unknown. Hang intricate spiderwebs with scary spiders, prop a fake (or real!) zombie on a chair, and play spooky music! The littlest trick or treaters will be wary of this house!
However, if you need Halloween decorating ideas to go all out in your decor, here are some great ideas! Change the lighting outside your house. You can either change your existing bulbs to orange and black lights, or add strands of skeleton or pumpkin lights to your bushes and house. Use flashing strobe lights for a really awesome effect.Turn your front yard into a spooky graveyard! Set up tombstones with bony skeletons, spiderwebs, and a fog machine. Add some eerie music in the background to make it really spooky! Have some witches in the
middle stirring their smoking cauldron or bats and ghosts hanging from the trees. You can even make the ghosts using white trash bags, some newspaper, and permanent markers! The trick or treaters will have to be brave little souls to approach this house!
Do you have a large boat? Park it in front of your house and make it into a pirate ship! Decorate it with lights and skulls and crossbones, and dress the kids up as the "pirates"! They can throw candy down to the trick-or-treaters as they walk by.
Make a haunted house in your backyard! Use clotheslines and sheets to make a path, and have the kids and some friends lay in wait for non-suspecting passerbys. If you'd rather open your house up, you can decorate a room or two with some creepy wall coverings, webs, etc and have a Halloween party! Make Halloween treats and punch and play the Monster Mash and other great Halloween party music.
Whatever your budget and time restraints, you can find tons of Halloween decorating ideas out there today, and the choices get better every year! Whether you buy them or make them yourself with your family, have fun and enjoy this time with your family! Happy Halloween!
