Decorating Your Yard for Halloween

Tip: Decorating for Halloween

Ida M.

October 28, 2011

We try to make a fun Halloween experience. Walking through to get their candy is a lot of fun to watch. My husband and I made simple grave stones, coffin, and lots of body parts for the giant spider I made.

We decorate with cheap masks bought at the dollar stores and costumes that were reduced after Halloween, for yard haunters, put up with just wooden stakes made into crosses.

I try to buy something cheap each year to add to the decor. We have a lot of wailing, screeching ghosts and zombies, witches and skeletons. And lots of sounds.

Happy Halloween {^;^}

By Ida M. from Toledo, OH

Craft: Halloween Yard Decorations

Lee Taylor
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October 15, 2008

Cost: $0!

Time: 2+ hours total

Supplies

• old coconuts (or for other parts of the country you could use gourds)
• acrylic/latex paint (we just used paint we had in the garage left over from another project. Any color will do, plus you'll need black paint for the faces.)
• sticks or PVC pipes (anything that will stand up in the ground. We got old bamboo from a neighbor's yard)
• a drill

Instructions

1. Drill large hole in bottom of coconut (or gourd) and drain out any liquid.
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2. Paint half the coconut/gourd with a base coat of any color paint.
3. Let dry and then paint on the faces in black.
4. Put coconut/gourd on a stick and press firmly in your yard.

Make as many as you want. It's easy and fun and the neighbors love it!

By painterlee from Indialantic, FL

Tip: Pumpkin Patch

Laura Lynn Jump

August 27, 2009

I made this pumpkin patch for my grandkids. Even if the plants don't make it, I can go buy pumpkins and put them in the patch they think grandma can do anything.

Tip: Creepy Halloween Bugs

Karen Foiles

October 24, 2008

Every year I buy those little sponge creatures that grow when you put them in water from Walgreens like spiders, creepy bugs and things like that. About 2 weeks before Halloween, I fill those big pretzel containers with water and food coloring and then line them all along the sidewalk.