Boo! Happy Halloween!
Some Unusual Halloween
Decorating Ideas
by Jeanette
Fisher
Halloween can
be a wonderful time for decorating, since it's so
different from any other holiday, and it has really
taken off as a chance to let people's imaginations run
wild over the past few years. Here are a few ideas for
adding some spooky Halloween spirit to your home:
You
can easily make a very attractive display by carving
holes in apples the size of votive candles and then
allowing the candles to float in a large glass punch
bowl, galvanized metal bucket, or tub. It can be
especially effective when all the lights are dimmed.
If you're
having a Halloween get-together, you can keep the punch
cold by freezing water in a rubber glove and then adding
it to the punch bowl. It will effectively keep the punch
from getting too warm while adding a wonderfully macabre
touch to your table decorations.
Another
fun thing you can do to dress up your punch bowl is to
add plastic spiders and other creepy crawly things to
your ice cubes by simply adding them to the water when
you put your ice cube trays in the refrigerator. They'll
add a nice eerie touch of holiday spookiness to your
Halloween party.
On the outside
of your home, make sure to add plenty of dry leaves
around the porch. Their crunch and dead looks will make
your Halloween decorations even more convincing, lending
a haunted-house look to your holiday décor.
Another
unusual, but effective decoration is a Halloween tree.
Manufacturers turn out strings of outdoor lights for
almost every holiday nowadays, so it won't be hard to
find orange lights and other spooky decorations for your
tree. Just check your local home improvement center or
large department store. Your kids will also have a
wonderful time helping to create skeletons, bats,
witches, and all the other assorted characters that have
a special place at Halloween time to hang on your tree.
Take a standard artificial Christmas tree as your
starting point and then let your imagination run wild.
If you have
railings on your porch, you can also find
Halloween-colored garland to thread through the rails at
the same store where you found your Halloween lights for
the tree. It can be especially potent when combined with
your spookily decorated Halloween tree.
There's an
ever increasing variety of Halloween-related decorating
choices to add spookiness to your holiday décor. You can
put a special welcome mat in front of your door, you can
get stick-on figures for your windows, you can get
motion sensitive manikins that will make scary noises
and move around when someone gets too close, and you can
even buy fog machines to turn your front porch into one
of the spookiest places in town on Halloween night.
Your
decorations don't need to be expensive, however. Even
small touches like painting river rocks along your
walkway orange and adding figures or phrases like "boo"
can help add to the overall ambience of your Halloween
decorating. If you have a tall tree branch hanging in
your garden, hang a stuffed sheet "ghost" and attach it
to a hidden rope. Have someone hide and pull the rope
back and forth to make the ghost move.
The bottom
line: have fun with it. Halloween may be thought of as a
children's holiday, but it can make for some of the most
fun decorating that an adult can do every year!
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Copyright © 2006 Jeanette J. Fisher
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