Easy Kids Party Decorating

Kid party decorations can be cheap and easy, yet impressive, if you follow these simple guidelines and use a little imagination and advance planning. Get rave reviews with our fun decorating ideas!

GREETING SIGN

A greeting sign in your front yard or on your door is a nice way to welcome party guests. Match it to the party theme and colors. For a construction party write "Caution: Work Zone" in black on a yellow background. For a luau party, draw orange, yellow and pink leis around the word "Aloha". A western party sign could say "Welcome to the O.K. Corral".

With just a little imagination, a homemade sign can be better than a store-bought one and you'll be complimented on your ingenuity to boot!

BALLOONS

Balloons are a must for every kids party. They are cheap, colorful, and every kid loves them! Choose the balloon color to complement your party theme. For example, two shades of green for a jungle party, orange and black for a Halloween party, yellow and orange for a construction party, and so on.

Assorted helium-filled balloons can be bunched and anchored in the middle of the party table as a centerpiece, or attached from the light fixture in the center of the room. I always get a special birthday mylar which relates to the party theme and tie it to the birthday child's chair.

A balloon arch is an impressive way to direct guests to the party area. Simply attach helium-filled balloons to a ribbon about every 12 inches and secure it to the ground on either side of your doorway. Remember to attach a few balloons to your mailbox to show guests where the party is. Be sure you have enough balloons to give one to each party guest as they leave.

CREPE PAPER

Another cheap and easy party decoration is crepe paper. Tie four to six pieces from the center light fixture in the room extending to the corners and walls. Twist as you go and

secure with masking tape or rubber cement, both of which are easily removed after the party is over. For an extra fancy effect, twist two different colors of crepe together. Attach a couple of balloons over the crepe paper ends to cover any tape or glue.

Hang crepe paper strips in doorways similar to the 60's beaded look. Alternate colors for more visual interest. Balloons and crepe paper alone are enough to give your party area a fun and

festive atmosphere.

TABLE DECORATIONS

Personalize your party table with some homemade embellishments.

Start with a tablecloth designed by the party child. Cut a length of butcher paper and let him or her decorate it with colorful markers, crayons, pictures cut from magazines, construction paper shapes - let the imagination run wild! Then, sandwich your child's creation between a colored

plastic tablecloth and a clear one, so it can be appreciated by all, yet protected from spills.

Use one or more of your child's toys relating to the party theme as a centerpiece. For example, a large teddy bear for a teddy bear picnic party, a grouping of Barbies for a dolly party, a cowboy hat for a western party - you get the idea. You can even anchor a balloon bouquet to your unique

centerpiece.

Curl several lengths of curling ribbon and lay on the table surrounding your centerpiece. Add a few sprinkles of party confetti - it even comes in different themes - to complete the effect.

COSTUMES

You may not think of costumes as decorations, but they are! They just happen to be adorning people, not walls or tables! It's fun for the party hosts and party child to dress with

the party theme, even if it's just a hat, funny glasses, or themed T-Shirt. This conveys a playful mood to get your party going in a festive spirit.

If you plan your theme several months ahead, you can anticipate your needs and take advantage of sales and discounts to keep the cost of decorations down. Keep a storage container of party

decorations you see on close-out throughout the year. If you throw an annual party on Halloween, Valentine's Day or other holiday, shop the day after the holiday for deeply discounted items and save them in your party container for the following year's party.

Follow these simple kids party decorating tips, and you'll reap the benefits with rave reviews from party guests and parents alike!

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Decorating Your Home On Halloween

Halloween is one of the most anticipated occasions for me and my family, though not many people have the same feelings towards it, but it also depends on how you perceive and associate yourself with it. Every individual is different and had different opinion about many topics; one such could also involve festivals and other cultural occasions.

Halloween as everybody knows brings about an occasion of trick or treat. It provides opportunities for kids and adults alike to dress up in not a formal or informal rather in something which is totally not appropriate, just to have fun and to keep the very sprit of Halloween alive.

We take Halloween as an opportunity to enjoy and have lots of fun. The most enjoyable part is getting dressed up and decorating the entire place with stuffs like spiders which in ordinary days no one even thinks about putting them up, but again its Halloween and that's the best part about it.

It is exciting to see others also participate and decorate their homes nicely with innovative ideas like turning homes into grave yards, placing trees, spider webs and also creating fog through a fog machine. All these things make the entire occasion spooky and exciting which in turn enhances the whole idea of Halloween. Besides the 'treat' part is also given considerable thought and exceptional goodies are distributed. Coming up with innovative ideas and brilliant idea is not easy its quite a task it has to be taken seriously and at the same time be enjoyed as well other wise; why go through the trouble.

It is the uniqueness in the decorativeness and the excitement created by it that parents take their children for trick or treat to different homes. But children are not sent alone as it is not safe and there are party spoilers who make the party lose its fun for everyone.

Halloween is the only time of the year where you could let your imagination run wild and be inventive. Though you are restrained by your budget but interesting things and objects could be found from specialty shops or could be surfed online for different things which you might have not even thought about.

Your dreams can take a practical shape. By the increase in innovation and the total cost of products have come down due to out sourcing of product to countries like China and other places it provides opportunity for people who cannot afford that much also to buy some thing. Through internet surfing many things could be found around the world, which would surprise many people as theses things are not sometime available in their home countries and also increased facilities like home transport and deliveries, from which you could order anything at anytime sitting at your home and you could also avail and utilize the product in a shorter time period.

He entire purpose being to keep the sprit of Halloween alive by ordering and buying stuff and also deco rising homes in such a way that it give a totally different look and doesn't give an old look all the time.

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Easy Outdoor Decorating For Halloween

Are you ready to scare the dickens out of the neighborhood kids? While doing Halloween decorations for the outside of the house try to keep in mind that the shabbier or shaggier something looks, the better it is. This is Halloween and things should look old and scary.

I always like the look of the ghosts dangling from my trees and eaves. However, I lived in Illinois where it was wet most of the time and my sheet ghost always looked deflated from being wet. I got this idea several years ago to make them from white plastic garbage bags. They held their shape and took a beating in the rain and came out looking fine.

We would take a lawn chair and place it in the front of the house close to the door. Then we gathered clothes (old ones) and pinned the shirt to the pants and stuffed it with straw or news papers. We put gloves on for hands old boots for feet, and a piece of cloth stuffed with straw for a head. Place a scary mask on it with a hat and put a broom or rake in its hand with rubber bands. Now place it in the chair and you have a scary guard at your front door. You might want to drape him with some spider webs.

Spread some cob webs across the front lawn and around the door. Buy a large spider and place it high above the door to make it look like it will drop on some ones head.

Scary music being played out a window nearby really gives it an eerie effect.

Place silhouettes in the windows with black plastic cling wrap, like they used to black out car windows, of a person hanging in an upstairs room.

Make a cemetery out of your front yard with painted tombstones made out of Styrofoam. Place some larger ghosts around the stones.

Be sure to have fun. All these ideas are inexpensive and easy to do. You can also always go out and buy many things for decorating your yard. Oh yeah and don't forget to put up some lights, orange or green in color so it will appear darker without being too hard to see up the walk. And be sure to have plenty of smelling salts on hand for the weak at heart.

You will be a spooktacular hit in your neighborhood and at your party.

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Decorating Your Dorm Room For Halloween

Many colleges are known for throwing parties all year long. Although there are many parties that go on throughout the year Halloween is one of the top parties to have. If you or someone you know is throwing a Halloween dorm room party, you can make this project a lot of fun! To have one of the best Halloween parties you need to be really creative. Need some ideas on how you can have a Halloween theme in your dorm room? Read below for some fun ideas.

Food & Dessert - Since most parties have some type of food at them you may want to consider this. Try to have some Halloween theme going on with your food. Look for some fun recipes for both food and desserts. Whether you make cookies shaped as Halloween creatures or a dish that resembles Halloween it will help. It doesn't need to be anything expensive just something simple, and fun.

Dishes - You can get some cheap silverware and dishes at your local grocery store for really cheap. By getting these you're not only saving a huge mess of dishes to clean up but your adding more to your Halloween theme. Around the Halloween season there are many decorated utensils and plates.

Party Decorations - You can get some fun streamers, banners or confetti that all represent Halloween. These are all really cheap and basically make the Halloween theme for the dorm room. Go to your nearest party store and they should have plenty.

Dress up - Make sure no one attends the party unless they are dressed up. Getting dressed up for Halloween is something everyone looks forward to. Costumes make a Halloween party even more fun.

Movie & Music - Have some kind of background noise that relates to Halloween. Check out your local movie store and see what the top Halloween movies are. If the party gets dull this is a great way to liven it up by throwing in a movie. This is a great way for people to sit down, relax and enjoy the party. Also the music is just a nice little ad to the Halloween theme.

Having parties like these are what makes college memories. It is always fun to get together with your close friends, take a break from school and have some fun. If the party seems a little hectic to host simply ask your friends who will be attending the party if they can bring some kind of dish when they come. This will cut down on the cooking for you and create even more fun for the people that will be coming. Also if you have someone else doing some cooking you get to see what creative ideas they come up with for the food and desserts. Be sure to have some fun, take a break from the studying, and bring out your camera to save and capture some of the great memories you have that night with your friends.

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Perfect Halloween House Decorating!

Halloween provides a wonderful opportunity to turn your ordinary run-of-the-mill house into a haunted hut that even the Undead would be on edge to enter! You can create this transformation by using various Halloween themed decorations and increase the reality with adding special effects like the addition of scary sounds and fog machines! You can make your rooftops creepy with the use of spider webs; you can make your jack-o'-lanterns grimacing and scary, and you can even use decorations which represent ghosts, ghouls, witches, goblins, etc.

It is not always the amount of decorations, but how you use them that create a believable 'haunted house' theme and the feel of horror and dread for would-be trick-or-treaters! With some themed props and decorations you can do even a minimal amount of work to give a terrifying look to your house!

Just to give you an idea, Halloween decorations are not the only ways you can add a spook-rific haunted theme to your house and Halloween party. To add even more to the horror, serve some really frightening foods to your guests that will leave them spellbound. Of course setting up some CDs to pump some ghoulish fun and frightening music, sounds and screams will leave your guests shuddering with fear!

1. Outdoor decorations: With properly laid out decorations, you can turn your plain average neighborhood house into a haunted house into the haunted Halloween envy of your neighborhood. If you are fortunate enough to have a large garden or lawn at the back of your house, you can transform it into a frightful themed graveyard. All you need to create your Halloween masterpiece are some tombstones, ghosts, ghouls, cobwebs, and skeletons that can be hung from the trees and layed out around the tombstones.

To add to the effect try to use a creepy and scary looking gate as the entrance and enhance with some scary nightmare sound effects and fog machines. If you don't have a garden or lawn to deck out, there is no need to be disappointed; you can use other Halloween props such as orange-colored Halloween lights and Halloween signs to create an equally eerie atmosphere!

2. Indoor decorations: You should not only scare your visitors outside your home, but continue your frightful theme inside as well! In fact, your house should be decorated in a way that your guests become frightened the moment they instead your dreadfully haunted house.

You don't need to spend a lot of money or time on this. Use minimal Halloween decorations such as ghosts, goblins, ghouls, etc. and decorate your house with them in a way that they all seem to be floating around! You can compliment it by creating dark corridors with the help of black or orange lights, some creepy Halloween special effects, and top it off with some frightful, yet fun Halloween foods to make your Halloween party complete.

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Decorating For Halloween - Simple Ideas For Creating the Atmosphere

Many people consider Halloween their favorite holiday. Who can blame them? This is the one time of year that we can tap into our "dark sides" and do it all in good fun! Decorating for Halloween has endless possibilities. Just when you think you have seen it all, you stumble on something completely new. There are some terrific decorations in the market this time of year but many of the best decorations are homemade.

Outside Decorating Ideas

Depending on your view of the Halloween holiday, your yard can be a graveyard with multiple zombies set up or a picture perfect example of autumn, with colored leaves, friendly scarecrows and a few Jack O' Lanterns.

Tombstones can be made of thick foam that has been spray painted in grey or even made to look like marble. With a set of stencils and permanent markers, you can write up spooky epitaphs. To make zombies, purchase old clothing or go through your storage space. Sew or pin the shirt and pants together. Rub them around in the dirt to get them properly disgusting. Stuff with leaves, upholstery filling, newspapers or any other materials that can be manipulated. Make a head out of cloth and stuffing and use costume wigs for hair. Get creative with the red paint. You can use stakes, poles, chairs and other objects to pose your zombies.

A less morbid approach to outside Halloween decorations is to create a friendly atmosphere with smiling jack o' lanterns and colorful leaves spread all around. A jovial looking scarecrow on a post adds a bit of charm.

Inside Decorating Ideas

Are you planning a Halloween party? Homemade decorations can cut down on the costs for the festivities. If you are anxious to spook your guests, turn your home into a monument of old and undead. Think vampires, bats, spider webs, spiders, ghosts and ghouls. You can even create your own sound recording to make background noises that will send shivers up the spines of everyone who dares to enter your house of horror.

Whether you are having a formal sit-down dinner or plan to serve up food buffet style, a great centerpiece is a necessity. Think squash, pumpkins, dried flowers and candles or set up your own "ghoulish centerpiece" containing a standing menu that renames your foods to make guests think twice about what it is they are eating... all in good fun, of course.

In all of your Halloween decorating, make sure to keep safety in mind. Set candles in glass containers and make sure they are not near flammable materials such as costumes, drapes and napkins.

Let your imagination run wild and your Halloween décor theme will not only be fun to create, it will be a big hit with party guests and trick-or-treaters alike.

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10 Tips For Decorating Your Office For Halloween

It is almost that time of the year, Halloween, when it is socially acceptable play dress up and eat copious amounts of sweets without being judged. Personally, one of my favorite days of the year. You probably already have your costume laid out, your Halloween plans made, your Halloween decorations in place at your home, but what about decorating your office? If you want to take Halloween to a new level this year and get in the festive spirit, consider taking some time to decorate your office for Halloween without pushing the envelope too far.

Spider Webs: These are quite possibly the oldest Halloween prop around, but they can instantly turn your office into a spooky hit. They are also relatively easy to put up and take down. Around Halloween season you can find spider webs at virtually any store at a low cost. Hang them along the walls, across desks, over the door, or even on your office chair. Add fake plastic spiders or spider rings you can wear in the webs to spice it up a little more!
Costumes: If Halloween falls on a work day, have some fun and wear your costume to the office, if permitted to do so. As long as it is work appropriate, have your employees and yourself dress up to get in the Halloween spirit and make work pass by a little faster. Costume contests for the best costume at work are also a great idea to encourage others to dress up.
Pumpkins: If you have some extra time on your hands, carve a pumpkin for work! Extra points for pumpkins that include a company name or logo on it. If you do not want to spend a lot of money or time carving a pumpkin for work, there are also plenty of fake pumpkins that are already carved and will not break your budget. Place them on desks or counters and they will give everyone something to look at to brighten up their day.
Pot of Candy: If you use the excuse that you are too old to trick or treat or want to get your candy fix early, consider investing in a pot of candy. Buy a plastic black bowl that you can find at any local store and fill it up with your favorite candies such as Twix, Snickers, and Butterfingers. Then set it out on your desk or anywhere easily accessible to allow others working in the office to help themselves.
Black and Orange Streamers: Streamers are one of the easiest and cheapest Halloween decorations to put up. Just use some masking tape and intertwine the black and orange streamers and you are good to go. Hang them on your walls, across your desk, or anywhere in your office that is looking a little bare.
Balloons: Everyone loves balloons, and during this time of the year many party supply stores offer packs of black and orange balloons. Get black and orange string to tie the balloons and set them free in places where they will be easy to take down later. Make sure not to set them free in places that you can not reach or you will have to wait for them to deflate on their own. Try not to go overboard on the balloons and stick to 10 or less.
Inflatables: Pick up some pumpkin, witch, and ghost inflatables and set them around the office. You can even have them sitting in your office chair while you are out to lunch or sitting on your desk to give you some entertainment throughout the day. You can even put them on your company lawn to show you are really in the spirit of Halloween.
Black Lights: If you are really in the Halloween mood and looking to go all out consider investing in some black lights. Put them in hallways or places where you do not need good light or reading light. They will really give your office a spooky vibe and a haunted house feel if you are looking to go above and beyond in your decorating plan.
Banner: Hang up a Halloween Banner in the office some place where everyone can see it. Try using a wall or outside a door to really showcase your spirit. Many party stores have these with many different designs, so pick one that best suits your office. If you work with kids, try to pick one that is not too scary and more kid friendly.
Decorate the door: Purchase a large vinyl or plastic Halloween table cloth and cover your door with it. You can also buy a large roll of black felt from a fabric store and cover the door that way. Get extra creative and cut out pumpkins or letters that spell out Happy Halloween and adhere them to the felt. You can also hang happy Halloween signs or plastic bats from the door knob.

Have some fun in your workplace this year while preparing for the spookiest holiday of the year.

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Go Green this Halloween - Eco-Friendly Party and Decorating Ideas

GET CREATIVE

Paper Halloween party invitations are appealing but try "recycling" your invitation into something and avoid the wasted paper. Make your Halloween party invitations something they'll want to keep. Most dollar stores carry a variety of affordable favors that you can use for this Halloween party idea.

Throwing a Halloween party for kids? Instead of traditional paper Halloween party invitations, try using inexpensive party favors. Transform a Halloween treat bag into a unique party invitation by simply writing all the party information right on the bag. Have the kids bring their bag to the party so they can fill it with treats.

Luminary bags also work well for this Halloween party idea. Ask the guests to bring their luminary bag with them to the party. Get some Halloween themed candles and give them to your guests as they arrive. Your invitation just turned into a Halloween party decoration!

SAVE SOME GAS

So many parents follow their kids in the car as they trick-or-treat. Weather permitting; why not join them as they "scare" all the neighbors! You'll save on gas emissions, saved money, gotten some exercise and had fun doing it!

PAPER PRODUCTS

Whether it is Halloween decorations or party supplies, paper is the best choice. It is affordable and most of all recyclable. There are numerous choices of garland, streamers, table coverings and window décor; all are good choices for having an eco-friendly Halloween party.

For entertaining, use Halloween themed paper cups, plates and napkins for your party. They make clean up easy, just throw them in the recycle bin and you're done!

Also, don't forget all those aluminum cans, plastic utensils and bottles, they can all be recycled too.

FOR YOUR OWN TRICK-OR-TREATERS

If you have kids planning to head out for some treats this Halloween, give them a Halloween themed gift or treat bag to use for collecting their candy instead of the traditional plastic pumpkin. Usually the pumpkin gets discarded after awhile anyway. A Halloween themed gift bag makes a perfect "one shot" candy holder that can then be easily discarded and recycled.

SAVE ON ELECTRICITY

Most people who decorate with lights for Halloween know to expect an increase in their power bill. Did you know you can save up to 90% on your total energy bill by using L.E.D. Halloween lights? L.E.D. Halloween lights burn brighter, cooler, longer and more efficiently than their traditional counterparts.

Because L.E.D. Halloween lights burn cooler than incandescent lights, the risk of someone being burned by them is all but eliminated also.

L.E.D. lights last years longer than incandescent (up to twelve depending on the color). This means you won't be throwing away lights and replacing them with new ones as often. You'll be keeping waste down and saving money.

By burning less energy, less pollution is created to generate the extra power we all use at Halloween for our lights and lighted decorations.

Going "green" is the responsibility of all of us. As you plan your party and decorate for Halloween this year, think of ways to create a festive, fun atmosphere without creating the waste. With just a little effort, using these Halloween decorating and party ideas are sure to keep more cash in your pocket and help our environment stay clean and healthy. Happy Halloween!

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Decorating Your House For Halloween Night

Don't have any ideas yet on how to decorate your house or apartment for Halloween night? I will give you a few.

First of all, you need to decide what do you want from Halloween this year? For example:

o You can create a spooky or scary look for your house and maybe yourself too. Or do you want to be funny and put kind of funny spooky decorations? Or maybe do you want to be weird with your ideas. Or you can combine scary stuff around with a joke at the end for your friends or family?

How much money do you want to spend for this? Is it going to be around $10 or $100? Do you want to buy a couple of Halloween pumpkins and put a broom by the entrance or hang a lots of Halloween decorations, get scary or funny masks for yourself and your household, make or buy Halloween costumes? If you have a dog or cat there are a lot's of Halloween pet costumes

o So, lets say you gonna spend a few bucks for Halloween decorations, what can you get done for a few dollars? For 1 dollar you can get a spider web. So get a few of them. They are very stretchy. Usually they look good in corners, especially corners of the ceiling, fireplaces, behind the door, on lights. Make sure you don't use those lights during the Halloween night to avoid fire hazard situations. Putting spider web on artificial plants gives dramatic look to the room. Make it as a centerpiece.

o Spending more then $50 on decorations. There are lots of ideas: starting with already carved pumpkins and crazy looking monsters in corners inside of the house as well on the yard. Like skeletons? There are tons of varieties of colors, sizes, bone or plastic ones. Some skeletons can hang on the trees around your house. Or how about moving skeleton? Br-r-r-r! I've seen those. I really like pirate skeleton. It will start to march on one place and shake your hand once you touch it in special place.

How much enthusiasm do you feel to do all this?

Do you plan to spend 15 minutes for setting all Halloween decorations or organize a Pirate party in your place with some Halloween pranks and freaky ghosts. You can organize a ball masquerade. It's all up to you.

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Fun Halloween Decorating Ideas

Halloween is a fun excuse to decorate your house and yard for the season. Whether you go for fun or scary, there are lots of ways to make your home festive for the holiday. The kids will all love coming to your house to see the decorations, and you can even involve your own children in helping to plan and decorate. Here are some easy yard decorations you can use to give your home a holiday feel.

- Fake cobwebs. This is a cheap and easy way to add some ambience to the scene. Fake spider webs are usually made from loosely bound white cotton that you can pull in any direction. Start by taping or tacking one down one end, then stretch the cobweb in two directions to form a triangle shape. The cobwebs work best in corners, over a part of a window, or on the front porch. You can add a few black plastic spiders to the webs to give it an even more realistic effect.

- Fake tombstones. Tombstones are an easy way to turn your front yard or flower garden into a makeshift graveyard. You can buy "stones" made out of wood or vinyl, which come attached to a stick so you can simply push them into the ground. Usually the tombstones have names of monsters or other scary names, and include funny epitaphs. You can make your own tombstones out of plywood and paint too.

- Reusable fake carving pumpkins. These are a relatively new invention, and they make a great Halloween decoration because they can be used every year. The pumpkins are made out of a hard styrofoam, and are perfect for carving. The carving itself does take a little longer because the Styrofoam is harder than a real pumpkin, but the advantage is these pumpkins will never rot, and so you can keep them for next year. Also, since they are harder, it is easier to make more intricate designs without worrying about the thin areas caving in. You can buy carving design kits at many craft stores, or even find designs on line. Just make sure you use a glow stick or flashlight to light them instead of a real candle.

- Lighting. You can use a few lights to really set your display apart. The most important lighting for Halloween is up lights. You can find these at most home improvement stores, they are usually just lights designed so that the light shines upwards out the can. Strategically placing a few of these lights can have a truly dramatic effect. Place them below your cobwebs to create interesting shadows and light the spiders. They are also great in conjunction with a fog machine. You can also experiment with different colored lights, like red or orange, to give an eerie glow to some of your decorations.

- Scary music. No Halloween would be complete without some theme music. You can buy CDs that include lots of screams, organ pipes, and other scary sounds to really set the mood. If you're a little more adventurous, you can record your family making all sorts of scary noises and use your computer to create a custom CD. Set the speakers up near the front door so people get the full effect as they approach.

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Halloween Decorating

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31st. Generally, Halloween is related to the scarier aspects of life such as like death, magic, and mythical creatures. Ghosts, ghouls, black cats, spiders, gnomes, skeletons, demons, monsters, and the famous Dracula are among the more famous Halloween personalities.

Halloween traditional colors are black and orange. Purple, green, and red are recent additions. Pumpkins and scarecrows are the symbols of Halloween.

One of the elements used in order to make Halloween a uniquely memorable occasion is make-ups and costumes. Pumpkins and Jack-o-Lanterns are one of the symbols of Halloween, so use a large number of carved pumpkins to decorate your Halloween party. Stenciled pumpkins will give the visitors to your party a scary feeling, as will creepy decorations.

Hang Halloween magic mirrors at the entrance of your home. Watching people get scared looking at their own terrifying reflections will be quite comic. Use dark decorations like a Halloween beacon with a pumpkin, Halloween clocks, Halloween candle holders, and Halloween wreaths for creepy Halloween parties. Use Halloween flags and banners in front of the party hall.

Decorate your car with Halloween stickers, posters, and symbols. Display all spooky Halloween toys in a table. Glue all the scary Halloween photographs in a frame, and hang it in the centre of the party hall. Decorate and light up your party with Halloween lights. Play Halloween music and videos that give off a spooky effect.

Arrange Halloween games like 'Finding a Monster', 'Make a Mummy', 'Halloween Pictionary,' and 'Build a Monster' for kids and adults to boost the enthusiasm of the participants and to enhance the enjoyment at the party.

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Nicely decorated Halloween parties will make the experience memorable not only for your visitors, but for you as well.

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Halloween Decorating Tips

Since November is fast approaching, you may want to start the decorating your house for the Halloween. Decorating can be really fun especially if you do it with your kids. They may have their own unique ideas for the decorations that you may find very interesting and feasible. A lot of decorations are available in stores and if you check out online stores, some do sell stuff for Halloween. All you need to do is just order them online and wait for it to be delivered at your very home. And if you are planning to make your very own Halloween decorations, here are some suggestions that you may want to try out.

Pumpkins of various sizes and shapes are very ideal decorations for the outdoors. You can paint them using creepy colors and utilize obscure outlines to complete it. Also, you can carve eye holes in them and place candles or any light inside. This will create a dim glow, giving a very spooky ambiance to your house.

Create floating ghosts in your porch by hanging old table cloths and putting eye holes in them. Light them up to highlight their presence. This is can be a very effective Halloween decoration and with a little help from the wind that will bestow its movements, this can be a really eerie site especially from afar.

Put up fake spider webs in your every window and place in creepy insects that glow on the dark. Make sure to put in a generous amount of fake webs to really capture the real feel of an old house. Spray some red paint to create blood splatters here and there. You can also put fake bloody fingers, eyeballs or a hacked bloody left foot.

If you still keep your human skeleton model that you have submitted for your science project back in middle school, take it out and place it in your doorway. You may have to spray paint it with white to enhance it to opaque white. Put it in a relative amount of fake spider webs as well so that you can place fake maggots that will crawl over the bones.

These are some of suggestions you can make when you start decorating your house for the Halloween. Decorating can be exhausting but it will be fun if your whole family would help you out. Halloween decorating can be a family bonding moment for you and your family as well.

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Halloween Decorating Tips - Spooky Fun and a Tree for Halloween?

Halloween is a time when anyone can be a kid at heart. You can celebrate the spookiest holiday of them all to your heart's content without having to break the bank in the process. With a little thought, you can create great-looking Halloween decorations. You're limited only by your imagination.

Spooky Halloween Decorating Tips

Halloween can be a wonderful time for decorating, since it's so different from any other holiday, and it has really taken off as a chance to let people's imaginations run wild over the past few years. Here are a few ideas for adding some spooky Halloween spirit to your home:

You can easily make a very attractive display by carving holes in apples the size of votive candles and then allowing the candles to float in a large glass punch bowl, galvanized metal bucket, or tub. It can be especially effective when all the lights are dimmed.

If you're having a Halloween get-together, you can keep the punch cold by freezing water in a rubber glove and then adding it to the punch bowl. It will effectively keep the punch from getting too warm while adding a wonderfully macabre touch to your table decorations.

Another fun thing you can do to dress up your punch bowl is to add plastic spiders and other creepy crawly things to your ice cubes by simply adding them to the water when you put your ice cube trays in the refrigerator. They'll add a nice eerie touch of holiday spookiness to your Halloween party.

On the outside of your home, make sure to add plenty of dry leaves around the porch. Their crunch and dead looks will make your Halloween decorations even more convincing, lending a haunted-house look to your holiday décor.

A Tree for Halloween?

Another unusual, but effective decoration is a Halloween tree. Manufacturers turn out strings of outdoor lights for almost every holiday nowadays, so it won't be hard to find orange lights and other spooky decorations for your tree. Just check your local home improvement center or large department store. Your kids will also have a wonderful time helping to create skeletons, bats, witches, and all the other assorted characters that have a special place at Halloween time to hang on your tree. Take a standard artificial Christmas tree as your starting point and then let your imagination run wild.

If you have railings on your porch, you can also find Halloween-colored garland to thread through the rails at the same store where you found your Halloween lights for the tree. It can be especially potent when combined with your spookily decorated Halloween tree.

There's an ever increasing variety of Halloween-related decorating choices to add spookiness to your holiday décor. You can put a special welcome mat in front of your door, you can get stick-on figures for your windows, you can get motion sensitive manikins that will make scary noises and move around when someone gets too close, and you can even buy fog machines to turn your front porch into one of the spookiest places in town on Halloween night.

Your decorations don't need to be expensive, however. Even small touches like painting river rocks along your walkway orange and adding figures or phrases like "boo" can help add to the overall ambience of your Halloween decorating. If you have a tall tree branch hanging in your garden, hang a stuffed sheet "ghost" and attach it to a hidden rope. Have someone hide and pull the rope back and forth to make the ghost move.

The bottom line: have fun with it. Halloween may be thought of as a children's holiday, but it can make for some of the most fun decorating that an adult can do every year!

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Halloween Decoration Ideas - Vintage Halloween Decorating Ideas Inspired by the Early 1900's

While a lot has changed in 100 years, you may be surprised that the essence of great Halloween Decorating has remained almost the same. Unlike the 1900's, we do have modern amenities like electricity, electronics and LED lights to bring more pizazz to our Halloween decorating. I invite you to use these vintage Halloween decorating ideas along with modern twists to create a classic and spooky Halloween scene throughout your home.

Outdoor Halloween Decorations:

If the place where the festivities are held is held in the suburbs, the lawn in front of house should be decorated with hanging lighted jack-o'-lanterns. The eyes, nose, mouth in each one should be different and as grotesque as possible. If there is a fence around the yard, put a jack-o'-lantern on each post. Drape black above the front door and, in the center over the door, hang a skull and cross-bones.

Entrance way Halloween Decorations:

Once inside the home, the entrance way should be in total darkness except for light coming from jack-o'-lanterns of all shapes and sizes on tables, and hanging from doors and ceiling, and around/in the fireplace. The entrance way should be draped in black and the person who opens the door should be dressed in black.

Living Room/Family Room Halloween Decorations:

Decorate the main rooms with jack-o'-lanterns made from apples, cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, etc. Hang them somewhere in the room or place on stands, tables, and mantles. Use also green branches, autumn leaves, apples, tomatoes, ears of corn and drape the room with red and yellow scrim and cheese-cloth. If possible, have a fire going in the fireplace.

Halloween Decorations for a Spooky Room:

The best place for spooky Halloween happenings is the garage, attic or basement. Have guests enter your spooky room immediately after hanging their coats. If you are creating your spooky room in a building detached from the house, build a large bonfire. The spooky room should be decorated with gruesome things - jack-o'-lanterns, skulls and cross-bones, black draperies, witches made out of cardboard and suspended from the walls, cats, bats, owls, etc. The shades and spirits should flit about. Use this room to tell ghost stories, play gruesome games or for fortune telling.

Dining Room Halloween Decorations:

The dining room should have festoons of nuts, branches of oats, strings of cranberries, autumn leaves, goldenrod, odd lanterns, yellow chrysanthemums and whatever else goes along with the theme. All the decorations of this room should be cheerful and suitable to the season. Charming maidens flit about serving the guests. For a festive Halloween table center piece use a large pumpkin with top cut off, pulp removed, and filled with water holding a large bunch of chrysanthemums or goldenrod. Bay leaves should be scattered over table and around the dishes. The menu card at each guest's plate should be of burnt leather bearing a sketch of a witch. After all unmask, lights in dining-should be turned up and room made brilliant.

Some modernizations of the above could include solar powered jack-o'-lanterns, spooky sound effects and a skull with glowing red eyes. Enjoy putting your unique twist to these vintage Halloween decorating ideas to create a fabulous setting for your Halloween Party.

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Cheap Halloween Decorating Ideas

Halloween is the beginning of the first of 3 autumn through winter holidays. Halloween was originally celebrated as a day to honor the dead, held at the end of the Celtic year. The original name, Samhain, is now used to describe the autumnal equinox and harvest time in general. Many have forgotten the origins of Halloween and enjoy it entirely for the costumes and candy.

Over the years, Halloween decorating has become second only to Christmas. There are many cheap and fun ways to dress up the house that reflect the origins of the holiday and won't empty the pocketbook. The everlasting cheap pumpkin provides endless possibilities.

Pumpkins can be carved, painted or left plain and set about the house and yard. Kids love to carve their own pumpkins. The pumpkins could be complimented with smaller cheap gourds and dried Indian corn. A harvest display of dried corn stalks is a perfect backdrop for a Halloween display and with a few adjustments can work well all the way into Thanksgiving. These are great cheap lawn displays. If carefully stored, the corn, gourds and corn stalks can be saved and used again the next year.

One of the best ways to cheaply decorate a family home for Halloween is to enlist the creativity of children. A great, kid-friendly Halloween decorating idea is the old construction paper stand-by. Cut out silhouettes of witches, ghosts and bats from construction paper for a mobile or window decoration. Paper lunch sacks can be given faces, stuffed with straw and used as the head of a scarecrow. Cut scarecrow bodies out of cheap grocery store bags or other heavy paper. Clothing can be cut out of pre-colored paper and glued to the body. Scarecrows don't have to be scary to get into the spirit of Halloween.

Not many events can compare with the fun of a Halloween party, except perhaps the decorating. Cheap Black crepe streamers add an air of spookiness to any room. There are many styles of cheap fake cobwebs available that can be hung from chandeliers and across windows or even in trees outside. Spiders can be set on the cobwebs for added effect. Homemade headstones can be cheaply made and hung on walls and kids and parents can have fun writing creative epitaphs. Witches' hats are easy to make from construction paper.

Truly, the only limit to Halloween decorating is your imagination.

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Halloween Decorating Ideas For Your Halloween Party

Mini Ghosts

To make these cut little ghosts that look great strung through trees and bushes outside or in a mobile, cut pieces of white fabric into squares, whatever size you like. To make the mini-ghosts, cut them about 5 or 6 inches square.

Separately, make a ball out of tissues, pantyhose or batting and put this in the center of the square of fabric. Wrap the ball with the fabric and tie it off with string under the ball, which makes the ghost's head. You can use black marker to draw a face or eyes on the little ghosts.

Then you want to thread these ghosts together on some fishing line. Thread a needle with the fishing line and thread the ghosts onto the line. After each ghost tie a knot. Space the ghosts out by a few inches.

These are great for hanging up just about anywhere and they make a great Halloween decorating idea for parties.

Another good Halloween decorating idea is:

Creepy Candles

Dark-coloured candles work well, or even Halloween-coloured ones in orange and black.

To make these look 'creepy' you could use many trinkets to embellish them such as beads, candy corn, or even the fake cobwebs you can get at some dollar stores. You will also find many other neat little things at the dollar stores you can use to embellish the candles. You may find cats, witches, bats, little cut-outs or stickers. There is really no limit to the many different decorating ideas you could do.

Using ordinary white school glue, glue these items to the candles. For the smaller items you may need to use tweezers.

When you're done, be sure they are completely dry before you set them out. If you plan to use the candles, be sure to keep an eye on them so they don't burn so low as to burn the items you've glued on.

Place them everywhere if you're having a party and even outside the door if you are handing out candy to the trick-or-treaters.

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Halloween Decorating Ideas - Vintage Halloween Decoration Ideas Inspired by the 1940's

Here are some ideas for Halloween decorations that can be used indoors or outdoors. Decorations like these were popular in the 1940's and many are still common-place today.

A traditional and easily prepared outdoor decoration is made of autumn leaves (real or fake) with corn stalks from your local farmer and lit Jack o'lanterns around the base. The corn stalks can be attached to a porch support beam, a light pole or a shepherds hook that held the summer's flowers.

Another traditional Halloween decoration is the Jack o' lanterns. Put them in groups, line them up on a fence, porch railing, along a walkway or along a driveway. Candles, dishes of alcohol and salt were popular on Hallowe'en. Add blue Christmas lights to give a ghostly illumination.

Free hand silhouettes/cuttings of black and/or orange construction paper hung on the windows and walls make for a neat effect. Some items to draw include witches, pumpkins, cats, bats, elves, fairies, spiders, owls, cauldrons, broomsticks or peaked hats. Search the internet for figures you can print and trace. You can also create unique lamp shades for your Halloween party. Use stiff orange and black paper cut out like Jack-o'-lanterns, witches, cats and other popular Halloween symbols.

Popular decorations were created from various fruits and vegetables. Apples, turnips and carrots can be cut into grotesque faces and displayed as is or used to hold candlesticks. You can also create Halloween goblins from the fruit and vegetables. Use Jack o'lanterns for the heads. The body is a smaller pumpkin and carrots are used for arms and legs which are fastened to the body with wire.

What would Halloween be without ghosts? Use a Jack o'lantern for the head which is attached to an upright post. Drape a white sheet or tablecloth from the post. You can then pin/stake the ends of the sheet out a few feet or just allow the sheet to blow in the wind.

Whatever your taste in Halloween decorating is, you may find that some of these vintage halloween decorating ideas may be ideal for your own haunted home this Halloween.

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Halloween Decorating Ideas - Great Tips For Your Halloween Party

Looking for some good Halloween decorating ideas to enhance this year's party? To have a truly ghoulish Halloween party you need so put up some Halloween decorations to help set the mood. People of all ages love getting into the Halloween spirit and these decorations help bring out that spirit in the old and young.

The best place to start when putting out Halloween decorations is with your front yard. This display will be enjoyed by everyone in the neighborhood leading up to all Hallows Eve as well as trick-or-treaters on Halloween and your party attendees. Here are some ideas on how to decorate the outside of your house:

1)      Tombstones/Graveyard - Create tombstones out of wood or Styrofoam. Do this by taking the wood or Styrofoam and painting it gray and writing some names on it as well. You can even include the names of the guests that RSVP'ed to your party and include a whimsical rhyme such as, "Here lies Ted, because a piano fell on his head."

2)      Scarecrow - Stuff some old clothes lying around the house with hay, if you don't have any hay newspaper or even leaves work just as well, so it looks as if someone is wearing them. Attach the clothes to a broomstick or rake that is planted into the ground. Find something round for the head, a pumpkin works well for this, and place a straw hat on top. You could even make this a little scarier by putting fake blood on the scarecrow's clothes or maybe a fake knife in the stomach.

3)      Change your porch light to a blacklight - Blacklights are great for giving off a creepy vibe. This will set the mood for when your guests or trick-or-treaters come to your door and give you a chance to be hiding and give them a good scare. Don't forget to put fluorescent decorations near the blacklight so that they will appear to glow in the dark.

The Halloween decorating ideas do not have to stop with the outside of your house. You can turn the inside of your home into a terrifying haunted house with some of these great ideas.

*      Paper mache ghosts - create ghosts out of paper mache to hang from doorways, curtain rods and light fixtures. This is also a great activity for the kids as they will love to get their hands messy creating these great decorations.

*      Paper bats - Cut out bat shapes from black construction paper and hang from the ceiling or even ceiling fan with dental floss. When you turn the fan on it will give the appearance that bats are flying around the room certain to freak some people out.

*      Fake spiders - People of all ages are frightened of spiders which make these a great Halloween decoration. Go to your local dollar store and pick up a ton of these plastic, crawly, creatures and litter them around your house. 

Halloween is a fantastic holiday enjoyed by everyone both old and young. To enhance your enjoyment of the holiday I hope you enjoyed these Halloween decorating ideas.

Creepy Ideas For Halloween Decorating

An excellent way to add a lot of fun to Halloween is to create or buy Halloween decorations to situate around your house or office. It doesn't matter if you're young or old, Halloween decorations can help to provide Halloween spirit. If you are looking to make or buy Halloween decorations to enjoy around your house or to decorate for a party, it is a good idea to keep in mind the ages of your kids or guests.

A party for young children really should have cute and funny decorations as opposed to seriously frightening ones. Sometimes creatures such as ghosts or goblins can be created to look funny. To decorate your house or party for adults, the choices are endless and you can make use of any type you prefer.

Some of us will always love the old Dracula or Frankenstein; while others want to see princesses and knights. Witches are an all time favorite. To make a room scary, you can also consider hanging wall decorations. Many kinds are available and ghosts, skeletons and pumpkins are popular choices. Our family enjoys posters of pumpkins and ghosts hanging around at Halloween.

Another idea is to place fake cobwebs in corners of a room or on the ceiling and a combination of cobwebs with spiders is always a favorite. There are also available cute, small dolls or ornaments. You can choose from cats, vampires and the like to put on tables or shelves.

For the most part, lights have always been used for Christmas decorating. Now you can buy and hang Halloween lights around your house and/or outside as they are easily found in stores or on the internet for sale. There are very adorable lights in the shape of the usual Halloween characters and they are available in several colors.

Since money is usually a consideration, you don't need to buy expensive decorations. There is always the option to come up with some home made ones. If you have the time and are a little creative, this should be easy. Kids always like crafts and it can be a family project. You will find that you will enjoy making little skeletons or ghosts with your children. Look around for craft items to make the decorations you desire. You will find several ideas on the internet, in a book or in your children's imaginations. Making these decorations yourself will not only save you money but will create a fun time for your family. Go all out to make this Halloween festive and fun.

Halloween Decoration Ideas to Spook Up Your Party

Halloween is a holiday full of drama and entertainment for kids and grown ups alike. Colorful candies in all shapes and flavors are delightful treats for kids who go from door to door with their 'trick or treat' cries. The costumes add all the flair to the celebration; from spooky to fun dresses, it is all about fun with creative Halloween decoration ideas to lift everyone's spirits.If you are throwing a Halloween party this year, it's time to get creative and make the party something to remember. Along with the usual treats and cocktails, decorating the venue with items that blend with the overall theme is sure to make the bash a huge success. Here are some Halloween decoration ideas to help you have a fun bash:

Halloween Lights: One need not fret over creating the right light setting to set the mood of the party. There are simple ways to lighten up the party atmosphere; how about changing the regular light bulbs to colored ones, or placing colored floodlights over other decoration pieces to highlight the party's theme? You can use candles in a variety of ways as part of party decorations to transform the conventional party table into a spooky dining affair. Candles and candle holders are available in many designs, and you can use those which blend with your party's theme. Pumpkins are synonymous symbols of Halloween, and also serve as great candle holders. Illuminate the party venue with hollowed-out pumpkins which look great wherever they are placed; keep them on the main dining table, light up the porch with glowing pumpkin faces, or place some in the outdoor venue.You can hang strings of decorative lights around the table or the room to add to the overall festive occasion. Black lights are extremely popular in lighting posters, costumes, paintings etc.

Decorative Table Ideas: There are many kinds of table ware to pick from; while most of them are made from paper, one can find good quality plastic ware too. Match the plates, cups, table cloth, napkins and serving utensils so that they look part of the same theme. Say you are hosting a Vampire themed party, you can opt for red and black being the theme colors and have a red table cloth or a coffin shaped cake.

Creative Center Pieces: Using a carved pumpkin is the commonest idea for a center piece. For a themed party, the pumpkin can be carved to resemble the theme; placing a candle within also adds the overall look. You may choose to decorate your table with flowers of the autumn season for a more serene look, or place glow sticks in a bowlful of ice for special effects, or create a creepy look with black ribbons and dried flowers and branches.

Design Your Punch Bowls for Special Effect: Let your guests take their drinks from a skeleton punch bowl, complete with a skeleton ladle and cups, or a creepy looking spider web bowl. The idea is to impart a spooky touch to almost everything!

Thus, with all this Halloween party stuff to help you decorate your home for the next Halloween party, let your creativity lead the way into a fun-filled bash.