10/31/2011

Making Your Own Special Halloween Decorations For Your House

By Jitske Memoli


Your halloween decorations not necessarily be expensive for it to be really terrifying. You can make your own to deck your house for the Halloween. Preparing a unique halloween decorations is fun and thrilling and will help you save money that you can spend on getting more candies for the trick or treaters. Below are some ideas that you may want to try out when making a distinct Halloween decoration for your house.

1. Old dolls or tattered stuff toys

Before giving away some of your dolls and stuff toys, you may want to use them as voodoo dolls and zombies for this year Halloween celebration. To make them look a lot spookier, clutter their hairs, put suture marks by using a marker and blemish the dresses using red paint or water color; you can also add a lot make up under the eyes. You can use dark-colored pastels or water-colors to get them to look like zombies. Remodel our stuff toys into ghosts and beasts by decorating them in a white fabric with eye holes. Attach black and red horns to some of the teddy bears and add some fangs and red paint in their mouths. Position them near your entrance, since they will be used as your welcoming party for your guests.

2. Cardboard Cut Outs

In a black cardboard paper, you can draw bat designs and ghoulish outlines and then cut them out. Suspend these cut outs using transparent threads to create an illusion of flying. Aside from bats, you can also draw a full moon and hang it up as well.

3. Pumpkins of many sizes

Create small pumpkins with eye and mouth holes on it and place lights inside to give a scary glow. Line this up from outside of your front door up to the end of your patio. The lights that are discharged by these hand made Halloween pumpkins certainly do create very creepy effects. For the larger Halloween pumpkins, you can make it as center pieces for your Halloween finger foods when you are having a Halloween party in the house. This will emit soft light to your delicious Halloween party menu: red vampire blood punch, bloody tarts and eye ball cupcakes.

4. Creepy Dim Lighting

Lighting does really do wonders when creating a spooky effect in just simply anywhere. Prepare translucent colored papers such as red, orange and blue. Wrap your lights with these translucent papers, creating a spooky sense in your residence and you will have wonderful Halloween photos to share.




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