Halloween Decorations
Great Halloween decorating ideas
Does it seem as if every house on the street displays the exact same Halloween decor year after year? This year, frighten and delight kids and adults alike by picking out unique themed decor, including lights, props and more. With this guide to select Halloween decorations, you’ll have the most unique haunted house on the block!
Frightening Halloween Props
The best way to scare and entertain guests and trick-or-treaters is to fill your yard with animated Halloween props. Choose from a wide assortment of scary talking, moving, character props, including ghouls, skeletons, witches, zombies and more. You could set up your lawn to resemble a spooky graveyard. Simply set down some Styrofoam props such as gravestones or crosses in neat rows and heap some sod alongside each one to resemble a freshly-dug grave. Then adorn your gravesite with prop Halloween cobwebs, spiders and skeletons.
For a blood-curdling touch, add props such as animated talking gravestones or skeletons with motion-sensing technology. As they walk by, trick-or-treaters will be frightened out of their wits when a gravestone unexpectedly starts moving or screaming at them! Alternatively, if you don’t want to give your visitors heart attacks, select animated props that sing and dance to cheery Halloween music.
Halloween Lights
Another fun Halloween decorating idea that many people don’t consider is to add colorful Halloween lights. Traditionally, people used homemade jack-o’-lanterns and ordinary candles, but today there are many other options to pick from.
Choose tiny sparkling lights on a strand in orange and red or spookier colors like blue and purple. Some lights come in the form of brightly colored glowing pumpkins, cats or skulls. You could also set up some black lights, to produce an eerie glow from the Halloween costumes of trick-or-treaters. Another lighting option comes in the form of Halloween luminarias. These beautiful lights are actually colored paper bags decorated with themed cut-outs, each of which contains a bright candle. When setting up your luminarias, don’t forget that you’ll need to fill the bottom of each bag with sand to ensure fire safety.
Halloween lights are not only festive but also add an extra element of safety for trick-or-treaters. Adding a little bit of themed lighting can helps prevent falls and other injuries.
