We're putting up a graveyard on the front lawn for halloween and I need suggestions for things to put on the headstones.
2006-10-11 07:58:15 · 11 answers · asked by xcarxcrashx 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
There are the funny ones like, "I told you I was sick."
There are the funny names like "I. B. Dead."
There are the ones I found on http://members.fortunecity.com/panforum/compend/c040105.html like: In a cemetery in England:
"Remember man, as you walk by.
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so shall you be.
Remember this and follow me."
...To which someone replied by writing on the tombstone:
"To follow you I'll not consent.
Until I know which way you went . " (I love that!)
There were more at http://www.webpanda.com/ponder/epitaphs.htm and at http://www.geocities.com/draka_dracula/FunEpis.html
A few years back, though, nearly everyone in my neighborhood was making graveyards of their yards and had a lot of those same quotes. I painted cereal boxes gray and steadied them with bricks inside. The epitaths I had on them were simple-- I looked up my heroes of the past, starting with authors of scary books, and put their actual birth and death years. That makes a great family project, too. Plus, you can draw on related pictures (like a Raven for Edgar Allen Poe and a bat for Bram Stoker) and add a brief description of the person's contribution. If you don't make them as a family, then have kids find you the name of the author of a book or other person by giving them a clue from the tombstone, then give them a treat! It'll make sure they go through the graveyard, too!
2006-10-11 08:34:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That sounds like fun! How about putting a few heads of skeletons, scary pumpkins, and cobwebs scattered sporadically in the graveyard. Also, adding a rubber hand coming out of the dirt by a tombstone would be really cool looking too! Oh and you could put a couple of flying bats in a few trees.
On the headstones you can have them read:
"You are next"
"Will be back"
"Jason dearest"
"Turn back"
"Vacancy"
"Buried alive"
Happy Halloween! :)
2006-10-11 08:19:01 · answer #2 · answered by ☼shine 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, if you go to a store that sells Halloween decorations, they sell headstones that already have sayings on them. Like "Here lies.........Barry D'alive" (that's a good one). Or what I did last year was I bought the blank headstones and wrote in the names of my family members. Make sure to put up spider webs too. Have fun.
2006-10-11 08:15:30 · answer #3 · answered by Pink Princess 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u need to see if u cant find some fake body parts to put like in front of it.. We have a party city here in shreveport, la and they have the coolest stuff when it comes to halloween.. need some fake blood as well. Are u gonna have the strob light and smoke... cob webbs too..
2006-10-11 08:03:43 · answer #4 · answered by blue eyes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you mean sayings or decorations like setting a plastic mouse on it or a crow ? fake moss, get a dead branch big enough that can be a tree put cob webs in it and or lights then hang lil ghosts in it ,and dig up the ground a bit or buy some brown fussy material to make it it look freshly dug ,
2006-10-11 20:14:54 · answer #5 · answered by hayleylov 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-27 22:03:18 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dry ice in the graves
2006-10-11 08:05:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look up "epitaths" on the internet. Lots of good ones out there.
2006-10-11 08:01:15 · answer #8 · answered by Sgt Squid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say go with joke names:
Electra Cute
Uri Nation
Cherry Pits
Etc...
2006-10-11 10:45:46 · answer #9 · answered by Mrs. Pears 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put the names of your enemies. If u want to. If not, put Spongebob, Dora, umm....timmy turner
2006-10-11 10:46:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋