Make your Own Halloween Decorations
Get in the Spirit with Easy to Make Halloween Decorations
Halloween is a fun time of the year. It is the time when all the skeletons come out of the closet literally as well as witches, black cats and jack-o-lanterns. The great things about Halloween decorations is that they don’t have to be expensive and can turn your home either into a scary place to visit or a whimsical place to be.
While many people spend hundreds of dollars on Halloween decorations this doesn’t have to be the case. You can make very simple and expensive Halloween decorations or pick many up for a song to decorate your table, your mantle, your door or even the entire outside of your house.
Make Pumpkins The Focal Point of your Halloween Decorations
In the fall pumpkins are quite cheap and come in a variety of shapes and sizes that make them the ideal decorating medium for this Holiday. By using large and small, round and oblong pumpkins you can create an amazing group of Halloween decorations for your table, stands and even outside your home.
By using small mini pumpkins and carving them into jack-o-lanterns and then putting either a votive or tea candle inside you can create unique, funny, scary or simply cute candle holders for your table, buffet or mantle. Using a large carved out pumpkin that will hold a flower vase inside you can create a lovely floral Halloween center piece for your dinner table or living room stand. You can even use a permanent marker to put a face on your pumpkin flower vase if so desire.
Oblong pumpkins are great for turning into scarecrow and witches heads. Simply draw on the the eyes and mouth and then use modeling clay or even a carrot to attach a nose. A little green yarn for hair and a paper witches hat and you have a witches head that only takes minutes to make. You can also draw a face on a pumpkin, set it on straw and give it a straw hat to create a scarecrow head. You can then set these heads on stuffed clothing to complete the witch or scarecrow or simply line them up on your deck or porch railing to create a eerie headless entourage. Clearing a small area of the yard to look like a hole and setting the head on that will give the appearance of your witch or scare crow being buried up to their neck in your yard.
Ghostly Visions
You can inexpensively create small ghosts for display in your home by simply scrunching up tin foil to form a ball for a head or buying small Styrofoam balls and gluing them to milk bottles and covering the entire thing with white material and drawing on a face. For those who want arms on their figurines dowels run through the plastic bottle at the appropriate place can make great arms.
Outside, white garbage bags can be used to create Ghostly visions hanging from trees or even the overhang of your roof.
There are many other decoration ideas that can be found to make your Halloween holiday special and fun.
The Hottest Halloween Costumes
It just wouldn’t be Halloween without seeing people decked out in their Halloween costumes. Halloween costumes are worn by everyone from the smallest infant to senior citizens. It is the only holiday where adults can experience a return to their childhood dress up games.
Vampire Halloween Costumes
On October 31st each year the streets are crowded with both children and adults in Halloween costumes. While there are the standard ghost, goblin and zombie Halloween costumes, you will also see butterflies and lady bugs and even the President of the United States roaming the streets.
School rarely has a chance to start after the long summer vacation when kids begin planning what their Halloween costume will be for the school party or parade. While in the 50′s and 60′s the most popular children’s costumes were hobo’s, scarecrows and cheerleaders, today’s kid’s prefer dressing as vampires, aliens and princesses.
Some Halloween costumes are passed down from sibling to sibling, while others find their way into a dress up box for the entertainment on rainy days.
Teenager Halloween parties are almost always populated by the goriest Halloween costumes available. Horror film characters such as Jason and Freddie Kruger abound along with hit men and other dangerous villains.
Teenage girls dress as gun molls, female vampires and even murder victims.
Theme parties decked out with the coolest Halloween decorations will have adult guests showing up in Halloween costumes featuring royalty, movie stars or even space aliens. It is not unusual to attend an adult Halloween party and see a french maid dancing with Jack the Ripper. Or to see Moses dancing with a she devil.
While some people spend an entire paycheck on a designer costume, others choose to make their own using their imagination and sewing skills to create beautiful original Halloween costumes for only a few dollars.
Some Halloween costumes get worn at other times of the year. Those who dress up as elves for trick or treating can use the costume again for Christmas. And more than one person has purchased a Big Foot costume for Halloween and then used it to frighten and surprise neighbors on April fools day.
Whether you are an adult or a child, choosing the perfect costume takes a lot of thought. You want to keep up with current trends while at the same time you want to find a costume that is unique and one of a kind. Some people start shopping early determined to find the “perfect” costume while others wait until the last minute leaving the decision to chance.
No matter how you shop for your Halloween costume or whether it is store bought or home made, costumes add an element of fun and excitement to your Halloween celebrations. Playing dress up for one night of the year can make even the youngest child feel like a grown up and the oldest adult feel young again.
Halloween costumes simply make a fun holiday more fun.