Having a Pumpkin on your front porch just doesn't make it Halloween anymore. Each year the stores start setting up Halloween earlier and earlier and the allotted space grows. Halloween isn't about you just wearing a costume it is also about dressing up your house. I suggest that you start early and make it a project for your whole family.
Lights are a great place to start because you can simply change all of your outside lights to orange bulbs. Now you can also purchase string of Halloween lights at discount stores. These lights are not very expensive and can be reused every year.
Have the kids make a scare crow by using an old shirt and some haw and straw. Kids coming to treat or treat at your house enjoy seeing what you have created sitting in your front yard.
A very cheap but very cool decoration for your house is luminaries. Take brown lunch bags that you can paint or leave as is. Now with a pencil you can drawl a pattern on the bag and then with a nail you poke holes along the design. After your design is complete fill the bags with 1 ½ to 2 cups of sand and then place securely a small votive candle in a glass. If you are going to leave your home unattended then it is best to use glow sticks.
Then on Halloween when it starts to get dark light the candles and your home will have a radiant look.
Cotton and angel hair will make a wonderful web on your front porch and with some black pipe cleaners these webs can have some really mean large black spiders.
Create tombstones by painting flat boxes and printed the names of the dead on them. What a great look to have a graveyard in your own front yard.
Last but not least decorating with pumpkins can be fun. There are numerous ways to decorate your pumpkin such as painting on your pumpkin, drawl on your pumpkin with brightly colored markers. The most popular thing to do to a pumpkin is to carve it into a jack-o-lantern.
With a sharp pointed cutting tool you can have your pumpkin take on whatever look you choose. Your pumpkin can be happy, sad, evil, or funny. After your pumpkin is carved it is traditional to cut an opening in the top of the pumpkin and place a small candle inside so it is there to welcome all of those who approach your front door.
This Halloween don't just dress yourself make sure that your house is also dressed for the festivities.
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Author Source: Bryan Burbank
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