Halloween is a time when anyone can be a kid at heart. He can celebrate the spookiest holiday of all to his heart’s content without breaking the bank in the process. With a little imagination, you can create very attractive Halloween decorations. You are limited only by your imagination.

Spooky Tips for Halloween Decorating

Halloween can be a wonderful time for decoration, as it is so different from any other holiday, and it has really become an opportunity to let people’s imaginations run wild in recent years. Here are some ideas to add a 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 letting the candles 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 gathering, 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 hot while adding a wonderfully ghoulish touch to your table decor.

Another fun thing you can do to decorate your punch bowl is to add plastic spiders and other spooky things to your ice cubes by simply adding them to the water when you put your ice cube trays in the fridge. They will add a nice spooky holiday spooky touch to your Halloween party.

On the outside of your home, be sure to add plenty of dry leaves around the porch. Its crisp, dead look will make your Halloween decorations even more convincing, giving your Christmas decor a haunted house look.

A tree for Halloween?

Another unusual but effective decoration is a Halloween tree. Manufacturers now produce strings of outdoor lights for almost every holiday, so it won’t be hard to find orange lights and other spooky decorations for your tree. Just check out your local home improvement center or department store. Your children will also have a lot of fun 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 a starting point and then let your imagination run wild.

If you have railings on your porch, you can also find colorful Halloween garlands to go over the railings at the same store where you found your Halloween tree lights. It can be especially powerful when combined with your spookily decorated Halloween tree.

There is an ever-growing variety of Halloween-related decorating options to add a spooky touch to your holiday décor. You can place a special welcome mat in front of your door, you can get stick figures for your windows, you can get motion-sensitive mannequins that will make scary noises and move 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.

However, your decorations do not need to be expensive. Even little touches like painting river rocks along the walkway orange and adding figures or phrases like “boo” can add to the overall mood of your Halloween decor. If you have a tall tree branch hanging in your yard, hang a stuffed “ghost” sheet and tie it to a hidden string. Ask someone to hide and pull the string back and forth to make the ghost move.

The bottom line: have fun with it. Halloween may be considered a kid’s party, but it can be one of the most fun decorations an adult can do every year!