Together with dressing up for Halloween, one can make it more exciting by decorating the house. Open creativity can be used even on a limited budget. Different ideas can be incorporated to make the house look impressive.
Kids can be used both for the ideas and to do the actual work. This can be an exciting activity for them. They can use ideas learnt from school which parents have no idea about. They can simply incorporate ideas like those leant about Christmas and Easter.Papers can be used to come some ideas like:
• Spiders
• Cats
• Bats
• Witches
• Ghosts
• Ghoulish decorations
These can be cut out and fixed on the wall using tapes and strings. Spooky and scary sounds can also be made by the children and recorded on a tape recorder and can be played on the actual event.
Lighting is very important to set a Halloween environment. Candles and lanterns can be used but you need to be very careful when using candles as they can easily cause a fire. Colored candles make the house beautiful and colored bulbs can also be used. Exciting ideas can also be created using bulbs that are covered with aluminum foil, construction paper or painted paper. Black lights can be paced strategically in the room to give an unnerving feeling.
When decorating the house lawns, one can use grass that will give a feeling like the house has been abandoned. Wood planks with names written on them can be placed in different sections of the compound to act as grave markers. Place this in areas that have loose soil and pour fertilizer to give the actual effect of a grave. Tombstones can also be made and placed all around the compound.
If one has a lot of space in the compound, they can plant a corn maze early enough so that by the time Halloween is happening, they are grown, tall and starting to dry. The dry look is quite scary and especially if different light color effects are used. When the wind blows, it causes the dry maize stalks to rustle and this adds to the creepy effect as if there is something that is passing through the corn maze. On the event, kids can also hide inside the maze to scare people as they come in. Different ideas to scare people can be adopted by spider webs made of strings all over the doors and windows.
