How to make your own yard decorations for Halloween

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With the inside of your house all decked out for Halloween you don't want to forget your yard!

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Step 1

Take your cardboard and or Styrofoam pieces and cut them in the shape of tombstones, use a craft knife or box cutter to cut them out so the edges will be neater.
Step 2

Spray them with grey spray paint, don't forget to use your craft paint to your name on the tombstones or someone else you know! Use a coat hanger that has been stretched out to stick through the bottoms of your tombstones to stake them into the ground. Make a whole cemetery if you want!
Step 3

If you used my other article on making a Halloween props you will already know how to make your paper mache monster, you can use this technique to make a head and hands for your landscaping too. After your head and hands are finished you can use it with an old shirt and stuff it and put wire it in to make it posable, make your monster look like it's coming out of the ground in front of your tombstone!
Step 4

Pumpkins are tradition! So at least have a few of them laying around, you could even try growing your own pumpkins if you have a large enough yard! What would be creepier than a pumpkin patch?
Step 5

Take an old sheet and put some bags or bubble wrap inside it to form a head for your ghost, take some wire and tie it around the neck, paint on some eyes and a mouth and hang it from a tree or porch in your yard.
Step 6

Light effects and fog can go a long way. Replace the bulbs in your landscaping lights to green and hook up your fog machine!

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