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Does anyone have any HALLOWEEN decorating ideas for outdoors?
I already know how I am decorating the inside of my home but as for the outside I don’t know….the front yard is very small and I wanted to make the decor. but it has to be easy because my 3 yr old and 5 yr old will be helping make them. Any ideas?
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Ghosts –
I took white trash bags (2 for duarability), stuffed the end with news paper to make a head and ties string around it. Made scary faces with a black Sharpie
strung fishing wire thru the top of each and attached to fishing line I tied from one tree, to the house, then another tree.
At night it looks like they are just floating out there!
lots of ideas 1. take empty milkand or water jugs paint with orange paint for pumpkins and white for ghosta use permanent marker for faces put a small starnd of clear xmas lights in them cut hole in back plug in and they light up at night and look great, 2. blow up balloons use cheese cloth dip in elmers glue and water place cheese cloth around balloon wrap tightly when dried pop balloon glue black spiders all over use fishing wire to hang on trees etc….3. if have a table outdoors use clear candle vases place candle in fill around with candy acorns light up at night,4. use white trash bags tie a string around head (for ghost) stuff head with newspapers etc draw a face on it, hang virtually anywhere, etc hope thats a start?
My favorite activity on Halloween growing up was making tombstones. Our whole family would cut different shaped tombstones out of cardboard boxes my dad got at a grocery store. Then we’d paint them gray and all come up with different funny names to put on them. Paint a few cracks on the edges to make them seem old and creepy. Then we taped a paint stir stick (free at hardware stores) to the back and stuck them all over our front yard. You can buy scary hands in the Halloween aisle at Wal-Mart and stick them in the ground like someone is reaching out or you can make them spookier by adding some store bought spider webs. It was always fun to watch the neighborhood kids reading them when they came up the walkway trick-or-treating!
Couple of things: I like the idea above of the ghosts. If you tie the line to the ghosts and loop it over one branch but tie it to another, the ghosts will seem ot move independently of the tree in the breeze.
Another fun thing is to pick up styrofoam sheets from the insulation section of a home improvement store and cut them in the shape of headstones. You can paint them gray and add funny epitaphs.
We have a porch at the front of out house and we hang thread from the top and let it hang down. No one can see it and it feels like spider web when they walk through it.
I have a strobe light, and a fog machine, I set off the fog machine just before the kid’s reach the door, A BIG “HIT”, I get a few parent’s that ask if it’s “Harmful”, I just show them the bottle of fogging fluid, LOOK “FDA Approved food starch”