How can i decorate my small front yard for halloween?

Question

I have a small front yard with a biiiiig tree in the middle of it. How can i decorate it to look amazing? I dont want it to scary as i dont want to scare away all the little kids (1-4 years old) that live around here. I am also on a very tight budget, so i would like to be able to make or buy cheap stuff. thanks ahead for all the advice!!!

Answer 1

I love Halloween, my family decorates our whole yard. We are so lucky to have a big one, we usually do a small haunted house thing. I miss my old tree in the front yard Hurricane Katrina decided it looked better on the neighbor's fence...

Spider webs are a must, make ghosts out of white garbage bags. Remember to draw faces on the ghost with a permant marker. Hang the ghost out of the tree and spread spider web on the limbs and on the trunk of the tree. Do you have a store that everything is a dollar? Go buy some skeltons, and spiders, and just have a blast decorating. You don't have to worry about the little fellows being really scared unless you put out mean looking creatures, or bloody covered items. I have found most children like the colors, and are not easily frightened unless an adult provokes them. Like goosing them, or telling them of it's a witch, it's Dracula he's going to bite you...We raised our children on booger movies, and had Halloween props all over. My husband made me 2 coffins for my birthday one year and surprised me. I loved it. We have a electic chair, a torture rack, but we put those things usually behind black plastic for the enjoyment of the older children. We don't scare the small kids, and if they want to play with the gaint rats or touch any of the stuff we make-we let them. It's when Mom or Dad thinks it's funny to goose them right when I have talked them into talking to Dracula. We have a blast though, and have alot of those Mom that's trys to be brave and say it ain't real....pee their pants, when they realize it is real(my husband has some great costumes)

So, make some ghosts, and get some pumpkins, put alot of colors, make it bright not so dark and gloomy. And the kids will love it, and your house will be the kids first stop Halloween night...Make sure you got plently of candy!

God bless us all..............

Answer 2

This is a good question. I also have a small front yard with a big maple tree in the middle. I decorate the front of my house with lights in the windows, spider webs, spiders, pumpkins and a hay bale or 2.

Answer 3

We've had good luck with the spider web stuff they sell in the grocery stores around this time. You stretch it out all over everything and looks pretty neat. You can also make homemade ghosts to hang up by balling up tissues and stuff them into little white bags, tying a string around it to make the ghost head and let the rest hang down, then you can make a face on them with a permanent marker. If you want some other cheaper stuff, a dollar store would probably have a lot to choose from. Oh, you can also make tombstones by covering up ceral boxes with paper and writing the RIP stuff on them, and hold them up in the yard with a rock.

Answer 4

Put out several pumpkins in different sizes...don't carve them,they will last longer and are still in keeping with the season.Later you can use them to make pie for Thanksgiving. If you have a porch,set out a couple of terra cotta pots of mums. Blow up some balloons and cover with large squares of white cloth and hang one from the tree and a couple on the porch. If you have a rocking chair and can put it on the front porch,make a scarecrow out of old clothes and seat him in the rocking chair. A couple of bales of hay stacked around the tree with the pumpkins arranged on them will look Halloween and fall-like without looking too spooky.

Answer 5

I picked what theme I wanted this year and made spiders out of pom-pom ball and pipe cleaners hung from tree from fishing string so the bounce in the wind..then i got some cob web and some spiders from the store[fake of course] and put all over the windows and doors ..then i got some lights clear and orange zig zag them inside the windows so the cob web shows at night and last i made big spiders out of black bags and had them scattered in the front yard..it's kewl and has already drawled alot of passer bye's

Answer 6

I have a suggestion: buy some cotton, and strech it out over the tree to make the appaerance of cobwebs. It's effective, but it's not too scary for the little kids. Just make sure that you strech it out really good! I hate it when people just put it on with out strecthing it, and it looks like snow!

Answer 7

Get some cheap halloween lights and hang around your doorway. Buy some pumpkins and carve them, put candles in them. Tie some ghosts from your tree.

Answer 8

buy one of those witch on a broomstick decorations that look like they flew into an object and put it on the tree. sit a skeleton ona branch, lynch a dummy on another, add some fake cobwebs, anything else that can be put on the tree, and set up a strobelight. now you have a halloween tree on your lawn.

Answer 9

I like sky-pirate's answer, also, buy some small pumpkins and scatter them around. After Halloween, you can cook and eat them like any winter squash, or make pumpkin pie.

Answer 10

sheets over sticks and hang a bat on your roof