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Halloween Decorating Inside and Out |
It's always fun to dress up the kids for Halloween, but the fun doesn't have to stop once the Spiderman costume is finished. This Halloween get really spooky and transform your house from Home Sweet Home to Home Scary Home with a few ghostly holiday ideas.
First, create a spooky ambience inside by replacing all or most of your light bulbs with black, blue, and green bulbs. You can add some dark and eerie shadows by scattering candelabras and flickering Jack-O-Lanterns throughout your hallways. And while you're making changes, why not go from an Early Provincial interior to a very Late Night Cemetery Crypt look? Cover furniture with dusty sheets and cotton cobwebs to make the place warm and totally "uninviting." And while you're turning things upside-down, don't forget to tilt your entire hanging picture a bit askew to add to weirdness. The idea is for everything to have a "not quite right" feel.
Now that you have started replacing the good with the bad, remember that noting is scarier than a room full of vases with dead flowers drooping from the sides. For even more of a "Dawn of the Dead" feel, consider hiding plastic spiders and bugs in unexpected places like between seat cushions or under the bathroom soap. That'll get your guest jumping out of their skin.
For added Jeepers Creepers, think theatrically and splash a little fake spattered blood here and there. And if you want to keep an evil eye on all the partygoers, you might try painting scary red eyes on all the windows with special glow-in-the-dark paint. Now for some sight-unseen spookiness, take a kid's battery operated toy, wind it up, then let it bump around loudly inside a hallway closet. This is big in Boo arena.
I've mentioned lots of scary sights, but if you really want to give the guests a little more Squeal Appeal, then add in some ghoulish sound effects for creep's sake. There's nothing like the clap of thunder or shrill screams to stir things up.
Okay, so now that we've covered how to dress-down the inside of your Haunted House, but how about the outside? Start with some potted plants engraved with creature faces to raise some eyebrows. Then line your lawn with white "ghost" sheets supported by unseen plywood frames.
Are you a ghost-a-holic? If you are then you can satisfy your scaring needs by stringing up white balloons to your picket fence for a boo-tiful welcoming committee. A nice companion scare to the hovering ghosts is a walkway lined with tombstones. And they can't be just any tombstones. Take some Styrofoam and a can of gray spray paint and go to town. The more crooked and broken the tombstone, the better. And maybe a spirit or two is trying to escape their earthly confines. A hand reaching up from under the gravestone is a tried and true gasper.
And while you're planning your graveyard, spare no cotton cobweb. String everything together with the Spidey stuff and throw in a few plastic bugs for good measure. Now don't sweat it if you accidentally break one of your tombstones. The more jagged the pieces the better when putting together a ghoulish graveyard.
If you're really into Halloween decorating, then a plywood coffin is a must. Make sure there are blood drippings all over and smear some handprints on the sides for an eerie effect. To dress up the coffin even more, you might consider putting a stuffed vampire inside or peeking out. If this proves to be a bit much, you can always have a closed coffin affair with a few severed body parts sticking out from the cracks.
As much as black and orange are the traditional Halloween colors, don't be afraid to experiment with a variety of frightful autumn colors. For instance, why does every pumpkin have to be orange? There's noting scarier than a brown pumpkin with glowing eyes and teeth. Or you could give a pumpkin a Frankenstein look with gray face paint and fake stitches. Sort of a Pumpkinstein monster. And the color green is definitely overlooked when it comes to Halloween. A few green witches flying around or dangling from trees is always good for a Boo-yah.
Now that the outside's been done up, don't forget the front doorstep. Greet the Trick-Or-Treaters with pumpkin luminaries or Jack-O-Lantern faced paper bags (whose bottoms are weighted with sand and a flickering votive candle). The doorway could be decorated with a painted harvest basket full of candy for a grab-your-own feast.
All in all, the best thing about decorating for Halloween is that there are really no rules. Scare if you dare, or just ring in the holiday by letting your imagination run wild. If it's fun and colorful your guests will love it. And Fun and Color is what it is all about on All Hallows Eve. So put your party thinking cap on and, oh yeah, DON'T FORGET THE CANDY!
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