Low-Cost Halloween Decorating Ideas for Fun

Halloween is a uniquely special time of year,faces or scenes, and your pumpkins will last much
regardless of whether you're a kid or just a kid atlonger. There's also none of the mess involved
heart. It's a holiday time that offers lots ofwith carving them. Place your pumpkins in groups
wonderful opportunities to decorate your homeof three to five of varying sizes and shapes. It
creatively, since the subject matter is differentmakes for a much more effective display.
from any other holiday. If you're thinking aboutGraveyard FunA little paint can go a long way in
decorating your porch and yard for the spookiestcreating great-looking tombstones, too. You can
night of the year, you can do it without having topaint simple boards gray and then use black paint
spend a lot of money. Here are a few low-costto add silly or scary epitaphs that will delight
ideas for showing your Halloween spirit to thevisitors. Things like: "See? I Told You I Was Sick"
world:Crime Scene to Fright SceneYou can getcan bring smiles, but you can also create scarier
rolls of yellow Caution tape (the type you see atepitaphs to bring out the more ghoulish side of
crime or disaster scenes to keep people out ofyour nature.Craft Fun for ChildrenChildren love this
certain areas) fairly inexpensively at mostcraft. You can create some wonderfully spooky
hardware stores, and if you put it up around thescenes in your windows by cutting out silhouettes
perimeter of your yard, accompanied by a signof the various Halloween icons, such as black cats,
that says something like "Fright Scene: Enter atwitches, and skeletons, out of construction paper.
Your Own Risk," it can give an eerily spookyWhen it gets dark, your windows will take on a
ambience while also offering guests a warylovely macabre look when the light is blocked out
smile.You can enhance that spookiness eitherby those eerie objects.Simple scarecrow-type
more by replacing your regular porch light with afigures, topped with rubber Halloween masks, can
black light bulb. Adding a few Halloween-orientedalso be effective in adding some scare factor to
items like skulls and ghost figures that glow in theyour front porch and lawn. Just stuff a shirt and
dark will be even more effective.Pumpkins andpair of pants with straw or leaves, add the mask,
Paint FunIf you want your pumpkins to last longerand you've got an instant horror figure for just a
(and even to be reusable when you scrap yourlittle time, imagination, and very little
Halloween decorations and begin decorating formoney.Jeanette Fisher helps home makers have
Thanksgiving), don't carve them. Paint them withfun decorating their homes.
acrylic paint. You can create an infinite variety of