Halloween is one the most enjoyable holidays we celebrate each year. As years go by, the Halloween decorations seem to get more and more sophisticated and elaborate. Today, you’re guaranteed to see much more than a jack-o-lantern or a paper pumpkin cut-out on the front porch!

You can now see spooky gaveyards and entire haunted houses with multiple rooms constructed in the driveway! This section is dedicated to the faithful Halloween decorator and how you can make your home the most haunted on the block.

Finding Halloween Decorations Online

If you’re not the “do-it-yourselfer” type or perhaps time is short the world wide web offers many safe and reliable options to fit just about any budget. Whether you’re looking for spider webs, grave stones, cemetery fences, scary window coverings, fog machines or any number of a thousand other scary Halloween decorations, there are many web stores you can turn to. The top players include BuyCostumes.com, HalloweenExpress.com and SpiritHalloween.com. And you’ll find plenty of others using your favorite search engine.

BuyCostumes
BuyCostumes.com carries a variety of Halloween props and decorations for your house and yard. From tombstones to blow-up Draculas, cemetary fences to skeletons, if you don’t feel like making it, you can always have it delivered!

Ghost Ride Productions
One of the leading decoration and Halloween supply companies serving the Halloween enthusiast and home/yard decorator. Over 120 different decorations, haunting supplys and much more.

Anatomical
The Anatomical Chart Company has been serving Halloween decorators for over a decade. The thrifty “Bucky” skeleton systems area is great for giving that room a special touch. Anatomical also offers a wide selection of other medically-themed party decorations.

 

Make a Decaying or Mummy Skull

I love Halloween, and I love Halloween projects. And by the way, I'm seriously lazy. So when a friend of mine told me he had a great, terrifying-looking, gory, easy prop to show me, I was all in! But even I (the corner-cutting queen) was rather delightfully surprised at how easy this really was. Together, my friend and I created three creepy decaying skulls in less than 10 minutes. And the best part? They were cheap to make...very cheap. Yet they looked incredible. Want in on my friend's and my little secret? Follow the directions below. How to Make Your Skull You will need: A plastic novelty skull, any type you'd like (check your local dollar store) Saran Wrap or bargain/store brand cling wrap A heat gun OR ...

Window Witch Halloween Silhouette

What’s that peeking out of that window? Is it…can it be?? A WITCH! Dress up your windows this Halloween with a life sized paper witch silhouette to peer out at trick-or-treaters and frighten the neighbors. Look for large rolls of paper at teacher supply stores or substitute with black posterboard. You’ll Need: Window sized sheet of black paper Sharp scissors Chalk and pencil Witch template Ruler Clear, double sided tape Look for a picture of a witch silhouette (or click and save the template below.) Print it out. This will be your template. Using the ruler and pencil, draw equal lines to create a grid, about one inch squares or smaller. Count the number of lines horizontally and vertically. There will be ten down and seven across if you ...

Black Grapevine Pumpkin

Grapevine pumpkins pack craft and décor stores this time of year. But how about making your own? It's quick, simple and allows you to customize it to create something a little more unique - like this spooky black version, perfect for your Halloween porch decorations! You’ll need: 1 – eight foot grapevine garland Floral wire Wire cutters Matte black spray paint Newspaper Soak the grapevine overnight in a tub of water to help soften the wood and make it more pliable. Untie the larger strapping but leave the small wires that hold the vines together into a garland. You’ll remove these later but leaving them for now will make forming the pumpkin easier. Grasp one end of the garland, leaving about four inches of the tail sticking up to ...

Prepare Your House for Halloween!

Over and over again I hear from rueful friends, “I just don't have the time to decorate my house for Halloween...and besides, I don't want to spend a lot of money.” My answer? Both the time AND money you spend on decorating your house for the scariest day of the year are up to you – and neither has to be a frightening prospect. Through the years, I've haunted my own house in every possible way, from dollar-store die cut black cats to a full-on front yard cemetery, fog machines, zombies and more. I've gathered my go-to Halloween preparation tactics, the ones I use year on year because they're so easy, yet they're guaranteed to bring a smile (and a spooky ...

Easy Halloween Ornaments

Decorating your house for Halloween doesn’t have to mean rushing out to buy styrofoam tombstones and plastic skeletons, although those can make fun additions to your home as well! Almost anything can be made into a Halloween decoration with a little time, spray paint and sense of fun. Look around the house for tchotchkes, ornaments and knickknacks you don’t really care about anymore. Or if your house is knickknack free, hit up your local charity store and bring home a bag of candle-holders, porcelain statues and small vases. Give everything a good scrub in hot, soapy water, or run through your dishwasher to remove any dust or sticky labels. Once dry, set your pieces 5-6 inches apart on cardboard and ...

Beading Jewelry for Halloween

Each year I try to find interesting Halloween jewelry but all I find is lots of cheap trinkets.  So last April I decided to take up beading.  Now I make my own amazing Halloween jewelry. If you can thread a needle and tie a knot, you can bead! One of my favorites is this ‘String of Skulls Bracelet. Its simply a matter of stringing an interesting set of beads for the main line, then stringing smaller sections and sewing through one little bead at set intervals. Its quick, simple and great looking. A slightly more interactive stringing job produces this unusual ‘Pumpkin Shroud Wine ...

Collect a Halloween Village? Think of Location, Location, Location!

Over the years several companies have been creating small scale collectible models for Halloween. These models represent a variety of buildings – Victorians, mansions, morgues, movie theaters, etc. – as well as a wide array of characters and decorations. Often these models are limited productions, the runs lasting only a season or two. This limited production time plays havoc with those of us who are rabid collectors, but it also creates a rather eclectic and original townscape for each collector’s home. While the availability of pieces (and the necessary funds to acquire them) can be limited, the greatest challenge for a collector often lies not in the acquisition, ...

Bargain Hunting for Halloween Decorations

Preparations for Halloween can never be started too early. As the economy continues its slow descent it becomes more important to stretch the dollar, and to find a wider selection of activities to do at home with the family. For families that love Halloween, the weeks and months leading up to October 31st are full of opportunities to obtain decorative pieces for both interior and exterior purposes. These decorative pieces can be found at yard sales, rummage sales, flea markets, transfer stations, swap shops, landfills, and at the curb on trash day. Not only will your decorative pieces be easy on the wallet, but environmentally you and your family will be recycling, saving space in the ...

Get A Leg Up on Halloween

Ghouls, our prayers have been answered! How many of us know about the famous leg-shaped lamp featured proudly in A Christmas Story? You know, the one that accidentally gets broken? Well, wait until you see the Halloween version! It will be the perfect addition to any Halloween abode all year long and will be such a fun conversation piece as your Halloween guests trick-or-treat or come to your party. Check this wonderful lamp out! Grandin Road has such an item, and it is a dandy of a lamp. It is, of course, orange and black with a skull finial and black fringe trim that dangles enticingly over the spider web-covered leg that rests in a fine witch’s ...

The Horror Tellers – An Interview with Sandy Reebel and Sada Egenriether

If you go to a certain quiet corner of Michigan in the fall, near the shores of Lake Huron, you’ll find quiet cottages, harvested wind-swept fields, and scarecrows with scythes, bloody eyeless skulls and severed limbs. It looks like you’ve reached Scarecrow Village, created by your dark entertainers for this chilly evening, Sandy Reebel and Sada Egenriether. Sandy has been creating yard haunts and her delightfully gruesome “scrows” for many years, and when she isn’t preparing her village, she co-owns a local landscaping company. Recently, she and her daughter Sada Egenriether have teamed up to provide professional design services and advice for anybody’s haunted attraction. Their website, The Horror Teller Online, showcases innovative products and concepts, and provides ...

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