How to Decorate Your House for Halloween

The best houses to visit on Halloween are usually the ones that take the holiday seriously. Houses with decorated lawns, porches, etc. are always the hit of the block. Create the spookiest entertainment on the block, and terrify children and adults alike on Halloween night.

Have a willing live victim sprawl on the floor. Use masking tape to make a body outline. You can do this in any part of the party area. The body outline can be done outside too, with tape or chalk.

Gather up some branches. Spray paint them black.  Put some sticking out from behind the couch, put some in a large vase, put some outside! Arrange your branch in some floral foam, weight it with some rocks, & spread some spanish moss over the top. You can decorate with spider web.

Take cheesecloth or fake spider webs (available at craft stores) and stretch them across corners doorways, windows and porch railings. Add plastic spiders of varying sizes.

Display decorative ghosts or jack-o'-lanterns in every window of the house facing the entry. Never leave candles unattended.

Replace the pictures on your walls with spookier versions. Find some creepy pictures to download & frame! Or frame the cardboard cutouts that you can purchase inexpensively in any local store. 

Try carving smaller pumpkins and sitting them atop stakes in the ground. Instead of using candles, use a string of white Christmas lights, placing a single light into each pumpkin.

Use peeled grapes as eyeballs, placing them where people will touch them in the dark. Use Styrofoam heads from a beauty supply house and turn them into monsters.

Make a fake corpse. Stuff an old pair of pants using newspaper, plastic bags or fabric. Tuck the pants into a pair of boots and lay the "body" next to a large boulder or planter, or coming out from underneath the garage door or deck.

Create monster feet print. Make an outline of a footprint on a large sponge (the kind you use to wash the car) and cut it out. Pour non-toxic, washable paint in an aluminum pan and press the sponge into the paint. Now use either side of the sponge to paint footsteps on your front walkway, sidewalk, etc.