A truly successful Halloween party begins the moment your guests set foot through the door. That mystical, creepy ambience can be so easily accomplished through each decoration used for the Halloween party. With a touch sensor mat, each guest can step into the party with a creepy howl. Fresh decoration for the Halloween party is both easy and fun to create.

With fun lighting, entry can continue through a dimly lit hall. You can use the dramatic fire-simulating lights or simply change your regular light bulbs to black or orange bulbs. This is the easiest way to create a fun and creepy lighting effect. Even the simplest decoration for a Halloween party can produce dramatic effects.

With a Halloween CD playing in the background, screams and howls will bring the party to new auditory heights. You can purchase Halloween CD’s at any party store, or you can make your own. Children, especially, will love recording haunting voice-overs with your choice of creepy music.

Actual decorations can be as simple as a web of black and orange streamers to hanging body parts and motion activated Halloween frights. With a relatively inexpensive fog machine, you can also create a mood that your guests will talk about long after the party has ended.

And don’t forget those Halloween treats. One of the most memorable and fun aspects of any party would be the themed-edibles. From cookies shaped like bats and witches to cakes resembling pumpkins, you can create a spread of hallowed munchies. With candy worms and spiders and some crushed cookies you have ready-made worms and dirt. Gelatin creates the perfect wiggly base for any creepy morsel, and cottage cheese with just a little blueberry juice is transformed to a lovely brain dip.

Whether you add just a touch of decoration to your party or go all-out to create a haunted house, you will capture the spirit of Halloween and create a night to remember.

Creepy Decorating Ideas

Scary Halloween decorations create a fun and creepy atmosphere. They encompass everything from yard props that entertain trick-or-treaters, to interior decorations, to moody lighting, to food and serving dishes.

Decorating for Halloween can transform your home into a haunted and creepy haven in no time at all. From nauseating edibles to fog and special lighting, there are lots of decoration ideas for Halloween, and they do not have to be expensive.

Halloween Decoration Idea #1 – Create a Crime Scene

Why not start with the exterior of your home? Create a simulated crime scene by purchasing crime scene tape at any party store. Then, with a piece of sidewalk chalk, lie down in various poses on the driveway and have somebody trace the outline of your body. Instant crime scene! This simple and cheap decorating technique will emulate a covert crime and add that spooky flare to your home. There is no limit to decoration ideas for Halloween once you get started.

Halloween Decoration Idea #2 – Add atmospheric mist

Dry ice, which is easily accessible and inexpensive, can create the perfect fog facade for your home. When placed in water it produces fog. The cloud of fog will actually move when the wind blows (an open window is fun here)! Just remember that dry ice is not a toy for children and will require extreme caution and use of gloves.

Halloween Decoration Idea #3 – Colored light bulbs

Change your ordinary light bulbs with orange and black bulbs to create a dreamy, haunting look. Balloons and streamers always add a touch of celebration, and special food preparations can provide even more fun.

Halloween Decoration Idea #4 – Revolting food

Make a brain dip with either a cottage cheese base or a cauliflower base. With a touch of black food coloring or blueberry juice you will have bulging, gray brains. For an extra touch you can serve it inside a carved pumpkin.  A little food coloring in whipped cream also helps to add that sickly hue to your dessert!

Halloween Decoration Idea #5 – Create a theme for your party

A unique way to create scary Halloween decorations is to come up with a theme, and decorate accordingly. This works well both indoors, and outdoors. Some theme ideas: a haunted pirate ship, a space ship, a vampire’s lair, and a mad scientist’s lab. The possibilities are endless! Start by making a list of what would be found within a specific theme, and work from those plans.

Spooky Decor Tips:

• The addition of ambient lighting to Halloween decor makes for a spookier, creepier setting. String lighting isn’t just for the Christmas season. Look for string lighting in purple and green where Halloween decorations and crafts are sold.
• Black lighting works well, and gives a room a supernatural glow.
• Food and treats are a big part of Halloween. To add a special touch, use special gelatin molds to create edible hands, hearts, and brians. Serve normal foods in creepy containers like, small caskets and skull bowls.
• Place lanterns along a walkway, and they will give off a warm glow in the dark.
• Fog machines and dry ice create erie clouds. Make sure party guests know that touching dry ice can result in injury.
• If you plan to carve pumpkins, get some of the smaller ones, too. Hollow them out, and place tea light candles inside, then scatter them around a room, or cluster them all together.

Halloween tombstones are fun to make and some can even be eaten! These Halloween tombstones make great decorations and you can serve the edible ones to guests.

Let’s start with the cardboard variety. These are the easiest and also the least expensive to make. You can use these tombstones inside or out. All you do is cut the tombstones shapes out of cardboard and spray paint them. You can use gray paint with a little black for accent. Then using a permanent black marker, write an epitaph on each one. Finish up with a coat of spray sealer.
Wooden tombstones will last longer and won’t fall apart as easily in the rain and snow compared to their cardboard brothers. You will need a saw and -inch plywood for this project. After cutting out the tombstones use primer and then spray paint to cover. You can add the words with black paint and then attach the tombstones at the bottom to a piece of a 2×4 that you have also primed and painted. Seal the entire tombstone with clear sealer.

Now for the edible tombstones. You will need eight fudge coated graham cookies, eight fun size candy bars, four graham crackers split in half, white and chocolate frosting, pumpkin candy and green-tinted coconut. Put the plain cracker on a plate and use the chocolate frosting to attach the candy bar on top of it. Then attach the cookie to the back of the candy bar using the chocolate frosting to form the tombstone. Using the white frosting in a decorating bag with a fine tip, write each persons name on the tombstone. Decorate the bottoms of the tombstones with the coconut grass and candy pumpkins.

Amazon have a fun selection of tombstones that you can buy ready made:

Scary Halloween sounds enhance the ambiance of any Halloween event. These sounds can be divided into two categories; sound effects, and music. Whether they are played at a party, or a dark haunted house, scary Halloween sounds make October nights more fun.

The best scary sounds to use at Halloween parties are songs and creepy music. Fun songs like Monster Mash and Thriller are popular, and many people recognize them. Another idea is to play themes from movies like, It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Ghost Busters, etc. If you desire something more frightening, play movie soundtracks from Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and the Exorcist, or save these for haunted houses, where they can be very effective.

Spooky sound effects heighten the thrill of a haunted house, and a sound played at just the right moment can have a frightening effect. Step into a house where the sound of an erie calliope or organ plays, and it is immediately known that there are mischievous gags and pranks to come. Sounds like wind, slow footsteps, creaking stairs, screams, or howling werewolves help to build suspense.

Encourage children to sing Halloween songs while they carve pumpkins, or work on other Halloween crafts. Have them to pick a popular song like, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", and then to make up their own words.

Look for scary sounds at Halloween specialty stores, party stores, and novelty shops. The internet is also a great place to look for spooky sounds. Many websites have free public domain sound files available for download. Just plug what you seek into your favorite search engine.

Halloween is the time of year that many people have the most fun, because their imaginations take flight. In order to get into the spirit of the holiday, the knowledge of what are considered vintage Halloween decorations are a must. This goes for hosting your own party, or simply decorating your home for greeting the ghoulish trick-or-treaters that come to your door. Just what are vintage Halloween decorations? They are the many age-old symbols of Halloween. Think black cats, witches, ghosts, fiendish jack-o-lanters a-glow, candles, Autumn leaves, gnarled trees with finger-like branches, skeletons, and spiders.

No home is complete without the presence of a glowing jack-o-lantern at the door or a window, to greet passersby and guests. Decorate your home in harvest colors of orange, brown, black, purple, or red. Dress your windows up with cobwebs and spiders, black cats, and skeletons. Let the white silhouettes of ghosts sway in the breeze in trees in your front yard. Before you know it, you will have compliments around the neighborhood!

Skeletons and candles are two of the oldest vintage Halloween decorations. The ancient druids, Celtic fortune tellers of their day, dressed in animal heads and skins to do so. That, coupled with the fact that Halloween signifies the return of departed souls, evolved into the association of skeletons with Halloween. Candles have long been used in helping welcome or guide the dead during that night in hollowed-out pumpkins, known as jack-o-lanterns. Since the holiday is also directly related with the passing of Autumn into Winter, it makes sense that leaves, trees, and creeping spiders also represent Halloween. Through the passing of the centuries and cultures, the superstition of black cats being bad luck, witches, and ghosts have gradually become part of what we know as this spooky day of Halloween.

Let’s make homemade Halloween decorations for the table. If you are going to have a Halloween party, the table decorations are very important.

You can begin making homemade Halloween decorations by making some candleholders. Buy a variety of pumpkins of different sizes and clean out the insides. Carve faces in the pumpkins if you wish and put a candle inside each one. You can also use battery operated lights inside the pumpkins if you would rather. Place these on the table and sprinkle bits of Halloween confetti around and also some shredded black and orange paper.

The table covering can even be part of your homemade Halloween decorations. Use a roll of butcher paper or white shelf paper and cut it to the length of your table. Use markers or paint and decorate the paper with Halloween symbols.

Change plain napkins, cups and plates into Halloween decorations for the table by adding stickers. You can also use the same stickers on the table cloth.

If you would like spiders on your table, (and who wouldn’t?) you can make them with a black button and black chenille stems. Cut the stems to look like legs and glue to the back of the button. Turn the button over and add a face with a permanent white or silver marker.

Cupcakes make great place card holders. Make and decorate the cupcakes and make the place cards out of construction paper. Take a small piece of paper for each person and fold in half. Write the name of each person on the place card and put one on top of each cupcake.

I hope these homemade Halloween table decorations work well for your next Halloween bash!

Making Witches Hats For Halloween

When making witches hats you should buy some large sheets of black construction paper. You will be able to find a pattern online or at your library if you need one. Just cut out the hat and roll it together, fasten with clear tape and you are done. If you want decorations on the hat you can add them before or after you tape it together depending on which way will be more convenient.

Making a Witches House for your children

Now for the witches house. You will need a large cardboard box, one that is big enough for a child or two. A stove box would be excellent. Turn the box over, open end down. Draw a door and windows on the box and cut them out. You may need a heavy-duty cutter for this part of the job.

Now it is time to paint the witches house. You can use tempera paint for this or regular wall paint. After the house is fully dry, the decorating fun begins. You can paint designs on the house, add cut-outs of spooky things, or drawings the kids have made. When you are finished and ready for the house to be used you can cover the top with tin foil and spread Halloween candy around so that each child will have a piece.

Alternatives to Candles for Halloween Decorating

There are many alternatives to using candles as lights for Halloween decorations. If you are concerned about safety, and want to avoid the risk of fire, there are many choices now available in electric and battery-operated lights.

Black lights are traditional lights for Halloween decorations because of the eerie glow they give to anything white, or painted with special black light paint. The traditional sickly green is perfect for an eerie effect, but many other colors are available. No longer limited to the old tubes, black lights are now available in specialty bulbs, and light strings just for Halloween decorating.

If you do not want to use a candle for your Jack-O-Lantern, but want the eerie flickering effect, try a flickering electric Christmas candle. They are sold on candlesticks, so you may need a tall pumpkin, but have the advantage of now being available battery-operated.

Colored lighting is also a way of achieving eerie lighting effects. You can replace your regular bulbs with ones in every color of the rainbow. ‘Icicle lights,’ as well as rope lights and strings of Christmas-style lighting, are also now available in orange to hang from your eaves for the Halloween season.

If novelty lights are what you are looking for, there are abundant choices. In addition to the usual strings of pumpkin lights, you can find bats, spiders, skulls, creepy eyes, and a seemingly unlimited variety of other shapes. Rope strings, luminaries, and walkway lighting are all available for decorating both the interior and exterior of your home, and can be found in almost every variation imaginable.

Why not start with your own appearance.  There can be fewer horrific sites than realistic zombies.  Take a look at these zombie masks and imagine what your guests would think as you open the door to them (Click the links for more details):

Other extreme Halloween decorations can include body parts (they’re cheap and plastic) to hang from your trees as a dramatic and gory reminder that Halloween is for the haunted!   Amazon has some great props for extreme decoration like a head in a jar, a complete set of gravestones for your front yard, a bad of human bones, and a realistic bleeding heart:

For those who want a little something for the guests to talk about, why not buy a coffin for your sitting room, or have it sticking out of the front yard garden:

You can also find a range of extreme wall decorations like the blood & guts wall hangings, or Horatio, the animated moving head: