Spooktacular Halloween Decorating

             

 

Nothing beats the excitement of Halloween!

It’s my favorite holiday and I love how all ages can participate and enjoy this Holiday!

Every year my neighborhood has a big Halloween party and THOUSANDS of kids (and their parents) dress up in their adorable, scary Halloween costumes and scour the areas searching for candy treats!

I just love watching the excitement in their eyes –

it brings back memories of when I was a child and used to go Trick-or-Treating.

 

 

Every year, I decorate the house to get into the Halloween Spirit.  To give it a spooky feel, I use outdoor cobwebs, along with bats and ghouls. I also change all the lightbulbs to either purple and orange colored bulbs. 

 

 

I also love turning my lawn into a cemetery complete with Tombstones, zombies coming out of the ground, Headless Horseman, pumpkins and skeletons. I’ll wrap the tombstones with cobwebs and hang battery-operated string leaves and lights for highlighting. 

 

 

I love hanging ghouls in the trees and use uplighting to give contrast 

 

 

 

 

 

First, the trick-or-treaters would come across a cackling witch as she stands above her black cauldron with green glowing smoke.

They then would continue to encounter an interactive zombie howling “let me out!”. The kids love to play with him and laugh with delight.

Then the would come across a werewolf hanging in the tree surrounded by glowing green eyeball lights as he bares his teeth as each visitor approaches.

As the children walk towards the house, they enter the pathway to the cemetery. Skulls line the perimeter of the walkway. The tombstones are lined with cobwebs and skeletons while bright-orange pumpkins lie in the grass.

The headless horse with a pumpkin for his head howls and warns those to stay 

away.

In the corner of the porch, there are skulls, candleholders, pumpkins, all laced with fine cobwebs. In the middle sits a scarecrow with his head lowered in a sitting pose.

 

Place blue, green, or purple lights under the branches so they light up from underneath. This technique is called ‘uplighting’ and makes the cobwebs glow for that spooky feel.

 

 

 

 

For the cemetery, stick old branches into the ground and cover with cobwebs. Add tombstones which are sold in numerous department stores such as Amazon, Home Depot, and Lowes. Place the tombstones into the ground with some being angled to give that old cemetery look. Apply cobwebs to the tombstones and place pumpkins, skeletons, and bones at the base of the tombstones. Use battery-operated orange string lights to give contrast and attract the eye to the tombstones.

Place some larger skeletons sitting upright and wrap orange or purple strings light around it to attract attention.

Drape purple or green lights throughout the lawn to give it a spooky feel. There are also fine web lights that can be purchased on Amazon and applied to the lawn as well.

You can then add interactive ghouls, witches, and other scary beings that howls and cackle as the trick-or-treaters approach the cemetery.

Use the ‘uplighting’ technique to attract attention to the elements or characters of the cemetery that you want your visitors to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, one can place a fogger to spray a light dust of fog over the cemetery to give it that creepy, spooky feel. Hide the fogger behind a large stone,

I also like to string bats and cobwebs along the side of the house to give it that Haunted House feel.

 

 

 

I love placing a classic Halloween bouquet and wreath at the front door as well as a variety of different colored pumpkins and the classic jack-o-lanterns. I also like to string black leaves garlands intertwined with purple lights around the door; You can also replace all your outdoor lights with orange, purple, or green light bulbs to give a spooky feel to your house overall.

Halloween is a great time to get creative and use your imagination to the fullest

Just like when we were kids!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Halloween is a tradition that can be enjoyed by all, and brings out the fun, imaginary, and creative side of people. It’s a Holiday that brings together communities as adults and children interact in a fun-filled way and allows us to escape reality, even if for just one night.

Happy Halloween Decorating!

 

 

How I do it?

Check out AtmosFX for fun hologram decorations. They have scary holograms for any theme and you can place them on your door, garage door, bushes, roof…pretty much anywhere!