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Step 1
Plan for any items that you will use for your Halloween decorations around mid-September.
Using a pen and a pad of paper, write down any holiday decoration ideas that you brainstorm up.
Make your shopping list for any Halloween related items at this time. -
Step 2
Ensure that you get your whole family involved in the decorating process.
The beginning of October is usually when people begin to decorate their houses for Halloween. -
Step 3
Decorate your house using orange and black. Orange and black are known to be the colors of The Halloween Holiday.
You don't have to be throwing a party in order to use any of the available Halloween themed party supplies.
Go to the local party supply shop (or other store) in your area and look for any black and orange colored items that you can use as decorations during the month of October.
Look for black and orange Halloween related items such as :
* Christmas lights.
* Light bulbs.
* Balloons.
* Table cloths.
* Napkins.
* Paper plates.
* Banners and streamers, etc. -
Step 4
Sweep up some of the leaves in your yard and use them to fill up a Halloween themed garbage bag decoration.
Most supermarkets start selling Halloween-themed garbage bags at the same time as they start to display the rest of their Halloween merchandise.
Fill up a Halloween colored garbage bag with leaves and other organic debris from your yard.
Halloween-themed garbage bags have pictures on them making them look as if they were colorful and round Halloween creatures such as : witches, ghosts, pumpkins, etc.
After Halloween is over do the following :
* Empty the (organic) contents of the garbage bags into your compost pile.
* Pack the garbage bags away so that you can use them as next years Halloween decorations.
This way, you are not only recycling your holiday decorations but you're composting at the same time.
Use old newspapers to fill your "Halloween-themed garbage bags" if you don't have access to enough leaves and organic debris. After the holidays the newspapers can be composted. Before you compost any newspapers you must first remove the glossy ads and inserts. (Only the plain, black and white newspaper should be composted.) -
Step 5
Decorate your front porch or part of your house like a haunted house. This will be the delight of the night for any Trick or Treaters in your neighborhood. See the resources section of this article for a link. Making a haunted house is not only easy but it's super fun for the whole family!
If your not interested in making a haunted house then try this simple "bed sheet ghost" idea :
* Hang bedsheets from any trees that you have growing in the front yard of your house and these will be your bed-sheet ghosts.
* Hang white bed sheets from your trees by attaching one end of an individual string to the middle of a bed sheet.
* Hang the loose end of the string from a tree branch.
* Repeat this process until you have as many "bed sheet ghosts" as you'd like.
* The corners of the bedsheets should hang down where they will sway and move with slightest breeze, giving people the impression that they are scary ghosts.
Draw scary faces on the bed sheet ghosts using a black permanent marker, for an extra creepy Halloween effect.
This is a super easy and fun Halloween decoration because the sheets will blow in the wind and remind passerby's of spooky ghosts chasing after them.
You can use these ghostly sheets as Halloween decorations for many years to come.
