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Decorative Touches for Halloween
There are many simple — and inexpensive — ways to deck out your home for Halloween. Here, four ideas that go beyond the great gourd.
- Sweet centerpiece. Put a pillar candle in a glass vase or bowl. Pour candy corn around the base of the candle until the candy is about halfway up the candle.
- Clothesline ghost. Tie a white sheet or tablecloth around a lightweight ball. To adhere the top of the ghost’s “head” to the clothesline, make two small holes with manicure scissors, thread fishing wire through the holes, then knot the wire around the clothesline. After dark, little kids will love scaring one another by making the ghost zip up and down the line. You might also want to hang ghosts from tree limbs.
- Light up the night. Buy orange paper bags — some come with Halloween-themed cut outs — the size of a lunch sack. Fill the bottoms with sand and nestle a votive candle in each bag. Use them to line your front steps or driveway.
- Dress up your chandeliers. Get creative! Dangle rubber spiders by tying threads around one of their legs at one end and around a piece of the chandelier at the other. Trying nestling rubber bats or weaving fake cobwebs into it, taking care to stay away from bulbs. Consider switching out your regular bulbs with orange-colored bulbs.
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Tip on decorating chandelier suggesstion...I used those fake spider webs one year on our brass chandlier and it ate into the brass after a few weeks. It sure did look great, though! Another suggestion: Cut large, bats with cool eyes out of black construction paper. Affix to windows and turn the lights on. At night those outside see the bat shapes with light shining through their eyes.
Light up the night - instead of using candles so costumes don't get caught on fire use battery tealights, they last forever
great idea! We use battery-run "candles" for Christmas but these take the worry out of flames inside pumpkins ...
I got married on Halloween and one of the centerpieces we had were a little bit of a wider votive holder, almost like a high ball glass, filled with candy corn and topped with a tealight candle and plastic spider rings! It was so inexpensive and it looked great! :)
At our house every year we have out a small rectangular table with a table cloth and on one side we have a big Halloween bucket filled with the big chocolate bars for the kids, and on the other side we have a heated coffee-carafe filled with steaming apple cider, styrofoam cups, and home-made pumkin bread out for the adults. This year we will also have some home-made Halloween dog biscuits out. Our neighbors love it (and have come to expect it)!