How to Decorate for Halloween

If you’re enjoying the fall season and ready to start decorating for Halloween, avoid buying the expensive decorations in lieu of the many less expensive options available.

Find Bargains

Your first step is to find bargain items online and in craft or party stores. A bargain doesn’t have to be cheaply made or even on sale – it might be something designed for one purpose that you can use for another. Halloween masks are an excellent example. A simple, inexpensive Halloween mask can be your costume on the big night or you can arrange a series of masks around the room amongst glowing candles to give your home an eerie look. Search for other items such as holiday twinkle lights you can use with orange or black scarves, yard signs and pumpkins.

Outside Decorations

Once you have a collection of items, brainstorm how you might use them. Your yard decorations should be able to weather the elements. As October can be a bit blustery for many areas, you should avoid lightweight items and consider easy decorating methods such as pumpkins, carved jack-o-lanterns and even bales of hay are easy to acquire and even easier to arrange. A well positioned spot light can make a well arranged gourd, pumpkin and hay arrangement look sharp in the evenings and after dark.

If you prefer something a bit eerier, use the inexpensive spider webbing to cover your bushes and hide a CD player behind a potted plant so that you can play a scary sounds CD. Blow up yard decorations are also available that include things as simple as a large pumpkin or as complex as a full, walk-in haunted house. These can become expensive, however, so plan for the expense in your budget.

Inside Decorations

Inside your home, you needed fear the elements or any pranks. The inside is the best place for glass or other fragile decorations. A collection of scarecrows and Halloween masks with plenty of candles and pumpkins are well suited inside. Place an arrangement of small pumpkins and harvest gourds on the table to use as a centerpiece along with harvest or Halloween colored candles and placemats.

Place window decals of spider webs and other Halloween images on your windows and on mirrors. Hang cheap plastic spiders from threads throughout your home, preferably dangling from spider webs to give the appearance of a haunted house. Most of all, use your creativity and come up with a decorating style that is entirely your own using a variety of inexpensive things you can replace with something new year after year. Changing things up every year is definitely the most fun of all.

Easy Step By Step

• Take stock of what you have and where you want to decorate
• Buy items on sale or that are inexpensive so that you don’t spend a bundle on decorations to stay out a single night.
• Use lighting and unusual items for decorations
• Make your own decorations
• Be creative in how you arrange items.

Warnings, Advice, and Suggestions

If you’re starting from scratch, consider purchasing items to use as a centerpiece on your table and a door decoration of some kind. These will set the mood and then give you more ideas on how to expand your options into other rooms of the house and even the front yard.

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