Halloween Decorations Ideas

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Halloween Decoration Ideas - 3 Ways to Make Your Party Truly Horrifying!

Planning a Halloween Party is a fun and exciting task but it can also be very difficult. Finding great Halloween decorations at an affordable price isn't always easy but it is possible. The key to planning a party on a budget is finding the essential decorations and getting the most bang for your buck.
Dollar stores are a great place to get amazing decorations for a relatively small amount of money. You don't necessarily need top-of-the-line decorations because they'll end up getting broken during the party or tossed in the garbage afterwards. So finding a great balance between decorations that have the appearance of a true haunted house and those that are affordable is key in your planning process.
Here are our tips for the top 3 best Halloween decoration ideas for the budget party planner:
1.    Spiders and webbing. Webbing is extremely affordable and can completely transform the look of a room. You can usually get a large amount of webbing for less than a dollar and the plastic spiders generally cost next to nothing to purchase. Cover your walls in webbing a toss a few creepy crawlers on top and you've got a good head start on the decorating process.
2.    Skulls and Skeletons. The number one accessory associated with Halloween, skulls and skeletons are an essential element in any great Halloween party. These decorations are available in plastic or rubber and can be hung from ceilings, used as centerpieces or spread sporadically around the room. Regardless of where you plan to put them, these decorative items are must-have for any great party.
3.    Glow Sticks. Glow sticks are a fun and effective way to spice up any Halloween party. Hand them out as prizes or leave a bunch on each table for your guests to pick up. Glow sticks come in the form of sticks, necklaces and bracelets and can be purchased online in bulk at extremely affordable prices.
Halloween is one of the best times of the year to get together with friends and have fun. If you've decided to plan the party yourself, we hope you'll take our opinions into consideration. We hope your party is truly successful. Until then, happy planning!



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.



5 Awesome Halloween Decoration Ideas for Your Halloween Party

Getting ready for a Halloween party is what everyone is excited about when it comes to celebrating Halloween. We prepare our own Halloween costume so we will have the scariest look and might win the best Halloween costume award in a Halloween gathering. Aside from dressing up on Halloween, we also like to decorate our house with different Halloween decorations to make our place eerie and creepy especially if we are hosting a Halloween party for friends and family.
To help you make this event fun and memorable, here are some Halloween decoration ideas:
1.) Pumpkins Carved Using Pumpkin Carving Stencils

Everyone loves a well-carved pumpkin with lights inside. Create your own pumpkin using a pumpkin craving stencils for greater results. Place them in different locations outside your place if you are having your party outside or distribute them in dim places inside your house.

2.) Popping Eyes with Fake Blood

It can be scary to see pooping eyes coming from out from nowhere. You can use a styro or other materials to create popping eyes then add fake blood using red paint or any coloring material. Place the pooping eyes in a place that you think your visitors will surely be surprised to see.

3.) All-Time Favorite Candles

Dimming the insides of your house or your garden can make the party more creepy and fun. Use candles particularly black candles to add more Halloween touch to your place.

4.) Fake Webs

Prepare fake webs using cottons or similar materials then add a big toy spider that looks like a real spider. Place these fake webs in the corners of your house or in branches of trees outside your house.

5.) Bats and Black
Any decor that is color black can make your party location more fun and look chilling. Bats are great Halloween decors and can definitely add eeriness to the place. You should also use black paint and coloring materials in creating other decors. You can also use black bulbs to make your garden or setting more haunted and spine-chilling.
Make your Halloween celebration fun by creating Halloween decors that can excite your guests during your Halloween party. Use your imagination and creativity in making unique designs that your friends and family will surely love.



10 Great Halloween Party Ideas

Halloween is a season for partying and for many people it is one of the best times for having fun Halloween parties. However, if you have been doing them for a while, or if you have never hosted a Halloween Party, it can be challenging to come up with a great idea for a party. Here are ten great Halloween themed party ideas.
1. Costume party. What better time of year is there for this? One of the main things people do to celebrate the Halloween holiday is to dress up. Offer prizes for various categories and let people know ahead of time what they are so that they can plan. Incorporate some fun Halloween games into your party and it is sure to please.
2. Halloween themed food party. Make all of the food in orange and black colors and dressed up with the themes of pumpkins, ghosts, and witches. There are lots of ideas online and recipes for this and you could even expand this party by encouraging all of the guests to bring a Halloween themed food item.
3. Corn Maze party. Get a group together and go visit a local corn maze. You could even have prizes for the person who gets through the maze the quickest or who wears the best costume.
4. Scary Movie Party. Get together and watch the scariest parts of several movies. You could turn it into a contest by requiring the guests to guess which movie is which and then having a prize for the best answers.
5. Scary Stories Party. Get together and share some scary stories true or false. Again like with many of the other parties, you could turn it into a contest with prizes for the scariest story.
6. Halloween Craft party. Find ideas for 3-5 crafts related to the season and invite your guests to make them together as a group.
7. Haunted House party. Turn your house into a mini-haunted house and see how well you can scare your guests.
8. Carnival party. Put together several Halloween games and activities and turn it into a carnival for a large number of people. You can include apple bobbing, fishing for prizes, races, and other fun themed games.
9. Decorating Party. You can get together and decorate a home, school, church or other location for Halloween. Provide some of the decorations yourself and encourage your guests to bring some too.
10. Mom and child party. You can invite moms to bring their kids and do some Halloween activities and crafts together.



Outdoor Halloween Decorations

Few things are more thrilling for a trick-or-treater than walking up to a house detailed with ghastly Halloween decorations. Whether you use complicated props like swooping ghosts, or simple, classic decorations, like glowing jack-o-lanterns, scarecrows, and indian corn, your house will delight visitors. A haunted yard, complete with fun Halloween decorations, makes a fine setting for outdoor parties in good weather, as well.
Plan out your outdoor Halloween decor. Choosing a theme makes it easier to chose decorations, and is generally more effective. Transform your front lawn into an old, foggy graveyard, a fortune teller's lair, or a mad scientist's lab.
Themes are easier to work with, but don't let that stop you from throwing in whatever appeals to you, and mixing things up. It helps to lay out your design on paper, to get an idea of what will go where. If you are using pranks and gags, try to set them up where guests will have to walk past them to be surprised by them.
There are some very realistic yard props out there, available for purchase form Halloween specialty stores, home decoration stores, and online Halloween shops. Foam-filled rubber sculptures of ghouls clawing their way out of the grave are very effective. Some other prop ideas are: bloody body parts, grave stones, glowing skulls, gargoyles, and faux-dungeon doors. Yard decoration kits are available, too.
With some time and creativity, you can make your own outdoor Halloween decorations out of relatively cheap supplies. Make gravestones out of cardboard or foam. Craft ghosts out of white fabric, and hang them from the trees. The possibilities are endless!



Set the Mood - Halloween Decoration Ideas

When Halloween comes around and you want to throw a party or you are a room mother for your son's class at school, how should you decorate? Here are some Halloween decoration ideas to get you started.
Halloween decoration ideas do not have to be complicated or time-consuming. They can also be fairly inexpensive.
You will want to decide on a theme. This will help you plan the Halloween decorating. Jot down all the ideas you have so you don't forget anything.
Let's say you decide on a ghost town theme. You could use hay bales to set the mood. Creepy music adds a little ghostly sound and make sure the lights are low.
The tables can be covered with brown craft paper and then add cheesecloth for cobwebs. Make luminaries from paper sacks that look like cacti or gnarled trees.
Fashion coffins out of cardboard and fill with people made from old clothes stuffed with newspaper. Make tombstones from pieces of Styrofoam and put funny names and other information on them.
Create different names for the rooms like Terrorville or Spooky Scream Center.
When you set the table, make sure you label the dishes with appropriate ghost-town-like names such as Sheriff's Best Shot Sandwiches or Cowboy in a Shroud. If you serve punch try something like Desert Thirst Soda and for dessert you could have Ghost Town Sundaes.
Remember that part of the decorating is your costume so you may want to dress as a sheriff, ghost or cowboy. At least wear a bandana and use any extras for decorating your Halloween ghost town!



Friday, June 24, 2011

Home-Made Halloween Decoration Suggestions and Party Game Ideas For All the Family

When holding a Halloween theme party it is a good idea to transform the party venue from something ordinary into a visually atmospheric space, filled with Halloween ambience, that will be enjoyed not only on the night, but during pre-party preparations and hopefully for years to come.
The key to a successful Halloween party is creating the right atmosphere. You expect your guests to get into the 'spirit' of the celebrations by dressing in Halloween theme costumes, so why not dress the party venue to compliment the festivities.
The interior (and exterior if you wish) can be dressed by using decorations, lighting and accessories to stunning effect, wherever you decide to hold your Halloween party and whatever your budget.
There are all kinds of Halloween theme decorations available to purchase and also plenty of ideas to create inexpensive Halloween decorations of your own. Home made Halloween decorations can not only save you money, but can give the whole family, young and old, the opportunity of creating something together, while at the same time having great fun.
Kids love to get creative and enjoy the experience even more when it is shared with other family members. As a family group, why not think about Halloween party games and even try them out as part of the party preparations. Trying games out in advance will help you decide which are the best games to play at your Halloween party. So let's have some fun!
Creepy Spiders A very quick and easy project, which even the youngest Halloweenster can accomplish. You will need black pipe cleaners, black pom-pom and some thread (black or nylon are best). Images are there to assist you with the Creative development
1) Take 4 pipe cleaners and twist them together 2 times in the centre.
2) Use the thread to tie the pom-pom to the pipe cleaners.
3) Bend the legs to create 'knees'.
A smaller version can be created by cutting the pipe cleaners in half and winding a further pipe cleaner around the centre of the legs to create the body instead of using a pom-pom.



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