i am obsessed with halloween, please give me some good ideas for halloween- outdoor/indoor - decorating!
2006-09-28 14:57:39 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
Wooo Hooo! another Halloween Nut...just like me!..lol...you probably couldn't tell from my pic,,,right...lol....I went to the fabric store and bought some really nice spider web material which I'm going to hang up in the windows(they also had some other nice glittery spooky type prints) quick curtains are easy...u don't even have to sew...just cut or rip jagged for affect and use clips or clothes pins to hold them to curtain rod...themes are always fun like Haunted house, or grave yard, or crime scene, or I did Nightmare before Christmas last year....left the skeletons with their little Christmas hats up thro Christmas.... singing.."Deck the halls with Black crepe paper...hummm hum hummmm".......lol....my relatives had fits (they are very religious Christians and did not appreciate it...lol) spooky music is of course a must & ,gause and fake webs every where create the spooky mood, and of course Candles ,candles every where(they sell little led batery candles now that you can use instead of real ones for safety; they work quite well) iv also used this stuff called scene makers its a plastic sheet that looks like woods and walls and other spooky type stuff the possiblities are endless!....have a great haunted time....
2006-09-29 00:10:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thank GOD I am not the only person obsessed with Halloween! I LOVE it. Go to Home depot, or Lowe's, get some cheap wood, and make head stones, I have 13.. I did a few years ago.. I painted them up with some cheap gray and off white paint, added some sand to the still wet paint so it makes it look like cement, My Son In Law is an artist, he did them up with Names, date of death.. all the good stuff.. We have one for Jason, and a Freddie Kruger one In front of the Jason stone I have a Jason mask that I lay on the ground with a mini black light, the Freddie one I have a Freddie glove. I have fake body parts strewn around the yard, a couple of black crows.
We also do the "living" scarecrow.. Either My brother, or my daughters boyfriend dress in a scarecrow outfit, and sit on the porch next to the pumpkins, now with the strobe lights going you can't see them breathing, when someone comes up on the porch .. BOOO they jump up and scare the crap outta the person! I have lots of spider webs, black lights, and a witches cauldron...
What ever you do HAVE FUN!
2006-09-28 23:24:14 · answer #2 · answered by bayrattnj1 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If your going to be at home passing out candy to the little trick or treaters try turning your garage into a makeshift haunted house. Not so frightening that they don't want to walk through it but just creepy enough to give them a thrill while receiving some candy when they reach the end. I've been doing it for a while now and it wasn't expensive to set up at all. Happy halloween.
2006-09-30 19:37:16 · answer #3 · answered by jp_457 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! I like to decorate my front yard as a graveyard, complete with styrofoam headstones I carved and spray-painted myself. I also have a large tree that's perfect for hanging dummies or other decorations from. Sometimes we add a cauldron of bubbling dry ice, spider webs and others. I usually add new pieces each year. Then my family and I all dress up as different characters to "haunt" our graveyard and pass out candy.
2006-09-28 22:19:11 · answer #4 · answered by suninmyskies 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
-to get a fog effect, instead of using some cheesy fog machine, get some dry ice, put it in a bucket and pour water over it. you get creepy realistic swamp-like fog.
-black lights and glow in the dark cob webs w/ lots of spiders
-tombstones are an easy to make decoration. all you need is cardboard and grey and black paint. use some creative or personalized epitaphs
-put a severed head or hand that is motion sensitive in the candy bowl
-one good creepy skeleton hanging by a noose
-halloween sound effects c.d. playing on repeat
-jack-o-lanterns w/ scary, detailed faces. you can buy carving kits at any drug store of pumpkin patch
-black silhouette cut outs of screeching cats and flying bats
-this is a little elaborate, but a haystack w/ a scary, killer looking scarecrow.
-a (fake) bloody hatchett that was hacked into the front door
have fun!!
2006-09-28 22:27:30 · answer #5 · answered by Peanuts 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
.My house gets decorated inside and out every year .I take down all drapes and hang long black table clothes for curtains and cut random holes . Lots of things that scare you when you walk by
{ scream at you or spooky noises } always need scary Cd's or tapes playing . Monsters hanging all over , and only candle lite or purple mini lights . Grave yard out side with monsters and ghosts . We even have a 6 ft. coffin that my husband made .
We add to it each year !
2006-09-28 23:06:09 · answer #6 · answered by Geedebb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-30 14:47:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am as well. just feww quick ideas off the top of my head.
indoor : sheets over furniture low/coolored lighting
outdoor : hard to go wrong with a cemetary scene
those are easy and inexpensive.
some related web sites that might get the wheels turning are : www.hauntedattraction.com www.hauntworld.com www.spirithalloween.com
use your imagination.
2006-09-29 01:19:34 · answer #8 · answered by haunting_dw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a friend who hid himself in a dracula costume in a bunch of leaves and poked his head out, kids and parents alike mearly got heart attacks. He's got everything in his yard, a cemetery, a stuffed person hanging on a tree, eerie music, his wife a witch,
skeletons dangling from trees and bushes, on his fence post's he has lights and he put heads on them.
2006-09-28 23:23:22 · answer #9 · answered by Mightymo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I buy tons of VERY cool stuff here...
www.thefrightstuff.com
this is going to be my best halloween ever!
2006-09-29 18:31:18 · answer #10 · answered by Ferny11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋