How to make yard decorations for Halloween

How to make yard decorations for Halloween

Want to decorate your yard for Halloween? Have some special costumes you want your yard decorations to match? Make your own yard decorations go with your family costumes for All Hallows Eve. Prepare for little Halloween costumes on your walk and porch on October 31st! Trick-or-treaters are on their way!

Things you’ll need:

Ideas from your costumes, costume shops, on-line, Halloweens of past years, present day themes. Used clothing
Plywood
Paints and brushes
Haystacks
Corn and maize
Gourds and baskets
Needle and thread
Fast drying glue and scotch tape
Just about anything with a Fall and Halloween theme
GET IDEAS FROM A MULTITUDE OF SOURCES FOR HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS. Look in magazines, newspapers, on-line, costume shops, your children’s costumes, drive by visits to other parts of town for displays. Note materials that are needed, usually hay bales, farm implements, brooms, carved pumpkins, store-bought pumpkins, lights, painted plywood cut outs. Plastic skeletons, witches, scarecrows, ghosts and ghouls, gnomes, haunted houses, sound effects, graveyard headstones, inside window flying ghost decorations, bats and black cats, flying witches on brooms, standing witches, witches heads, witches brooms ….you get the idea. For a witch’s broom see How to Make Witch Broomstick Yard Decoration Just about anything related to Halloween are prime subjects, most easy to make or paint. Determine the theme you want and get your materials. For a start on a graveyard theme like Disney’s Haunted House, see How to Make Halloween Headstone Yard Decoration
CUT OUT YOUR LARGER DECORATIONS FROM PLYWOOD AND PAINT. Make one main decoration larger out of painted plywood securely fastened to the ground or part of your porch. Build around that theme with handmade smaller objects that match your chosen theme. If you want a witch riding a broom over a moon cutout, make a witch’s broom an accessory and add a nearby window display with a flying ghost inside. For this idea, see How to Make Halloween Ghost Inside Window Decoration Be creative and expand your decorative talents! For an idea of an Indian theme see How to Make Old Indian Man Halloween Costume
PUT DECORATIONS OUT IN YARD CLOSE TO PORCH AND ADD ITEMS ON PORCH NEAR ENTRY. Use up spotlights on yard decorations. Use your smaller decorations to accent the experience of the approaching trick-or-treaters as they come up your walk. Use low level lighting, Halloween sounds from a tape recorder on a continuous play loop, and consider dressing up your pets in similar costumes. For pet Halloween costume ideas see How to Make Pet Costume Match Halloween Yard Decorations Sit on the porch in costume and watch the kiddies on All Hallows Eve!!

Tips and Warnings:

Scrounge in your old garage sale boxes to find things you can use.
Go to garage sales and pick up accessories cheaply.
Sketch your ideas on paper and check them off as you acquire, make, or purchase items for your Halloween yard decorations.
Try to make sure someone is on the porch at all times during Halloween time to discourage souvenir seekers.
Don’t go overboard! Keep things to a reasonable minimum.
The more you have in your yard and porch the more you have to be aware that they may “disappear” on Halloween night!

For more information see:

How to Make Halloween Ghost Inside Window Decoration

How to Avoid Wood Splintering When Sawing

How to Make Indian Coup Stick for Halloween Costume

How to Make Indian Tom Tom for Costume Accessory

How to Make Witch Halloween Yard Decoration

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