Decorate your front door
This is such a fun time of year as you can be as crazy with your decorations as your heart desires! In writing this blog I came across a blog from Lil’ Luna, 50 Halloween Wreath Ideas that will get your creative juices going! If making a wreath doesn’t interest you, there are many options available at all home and craft stores in your area. Let me share some fun ideas I found…
Do you want your front porch to have a “spooky†look, how about this? HGTV offers step by step instructions to achieve this look, click here to view. I like the idea of using your garden planter urns and transforming them for the Halloween holiday. You can also easily “spookify†anything by adding spider webbing, which can be purchased at many stores, such as Target, Home Depot or your local party store.
Stack pumpkins to achieve the desired height – use paint and decorative ribbon to create a look, for other ideas from Better Homes and Garden, click here. You can incorporate natural elements such as interesting twigs, pine cones, moss, or burlap around the base of your planter/urn.
If you are unsure as to how to properly carve a pumpkin, click here to view instructions from Martha Stewart. For those of you that need a little help with carving your pumpkins, Better Homes and Gardens offers stencils that you can download, click here to view them.
Optional lighting ideas for pumpkins are strings of lights, battery operated candles, or you can purchase pumpkins where the lights are integrated into the pumpkin, such as these pre-lit grapevine pumpkins from GrandinRoad.com.
Decorate around light or mailbox
You can use outdoor leaf garland, faux pumpkins (weather resistant items), and your choice of ribbon to achieve a nice Halloween to fall look.
Halloween Yard Decorations
If you really want to have the whole scary-yard-look, create and hang ghosts in your trees, to create this look click here for instructions. Or, create spooky tombstones that can be lit up by battery operated lights (I would not recommend using any candles in your yard.) For instructions on how to create these tombstones, click here.
Have a Happy Halloween and I would love to see some of your creations! Please Share!!