When the usual pumpkin and candy decorations are no longer effective for this Halloween, make something scary. How spooky these items are will depend on your crafting them and the impression they make on guests. So, follow the steps below when you're feeling inspired.
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Method 1 of 3: Body Parts
Body parts can always scare people!
Step 1. Create the corpse
You can do this by using dolls or filling clothes with certain padding/materials and decorating them to make them look like body parts or the whole body. Here are some ways to make corpse decorations for Halloween:
- Buy some used pants from a flea store. Fill the pants with sack, pillow, or filling material to make them look like calves. Put on socks that are propped up at the ends to look like real feet. Flip the pants so that the waist is on the floor; tuck a bamboo pole (or other similar object) into one of the calves and nail it into the ground to keep the pants in place. Make a line of half-body pieces like this to make it look as if the whole family is trapped underground.
- Look for or buy tops and bottoms. Pile up in the same way as the previous decoration to make it look as if someone is wearing the shirt. Fill stockings and shape facial features or draw for the head. You can make variations, for example by sticking a knife in his back (add blood flowing too), or tying a noose around his neck and hanging him from a tree branch (for this one, make sure the head is firmly attached to the body).
- Use rubber arms or legs to make decorations. These limbs can be made to appear as if they were popping out of the ground, over a wall, or simply "hanging over".
Step 2. Use the skull to decorate
There are so many ways to make a spooky skull decoration, especially since the skull itself is scary enough. Here are some ways to use skulls as decoration:
- Place the plastic skull on top of the spider's eight legs. Place this skull spider in the yard in a position as if it was running across the meadow.
- Insert the skull into the fake bird's nest. Place a lit lamp under it.
- Color a skull made of plastic or other material. You can make it neon, glow in the dark, pale, patterned, bloody, or decorate it in any way. The crazier the idea, the more terrifying the outcome will be. So, want to make a Barbie doll skull?
Method 2 of 3: Death
Focusing on death always manages to frighten someone.
Step 1. Create a coffin
Place this chest in your entrance or yard.
Step 2. Make the headstone
Simple headstones can be made from old wooden planks, a collection of Styrofoam, or even old cardboard. Place tombstones around the yard and write unique comments.
- Examples of some fun things you can write on a tombstone are: "I told you I was sick"; "See you again"; "Bury me deep"; "Mrs Susana is lying here, sorry if she doesn't wake up again"; "Buried Teddy"; and "Dracula rests here - with his fangs".
- Decorate with fake cobwebs to complete the look.
Step 3. Create the grave
Use soil or mark to form a grave area in the yard in your front yard. Bound with rope, a small garden fence, or similar object to define the shape. Embed the headstone you made in the previous step on the top of the grave.
Method 3 of 3: Creatures of the Night
All the wild animals, ghosts, and scary monsters you think of at night fall into this category. Remember, you can make dolls using the method described in the first section (using clothes and fillers).
Step 1. Change the vampire design so that it can be used as a scary decoration
Vampires remind people of fangs, robes, dripping blood, and bloodshot eyes. All of these design features can be used to create spooky decorations.
- Make a vampire doll. Place it on a tree facing down on children playing trick or treat, or place it on a balcony.
- Make a vampire-inspired meal, such as a cake or cookie decorated so that it looks as though it was stabbed with two sharp fangs. Use red jam to decorate the holes the fangs have caused.
Step 2. Make the zombie decoration
The zombie doll is similar to the corpse doll described above. However, add more spooky elements, such as oozing pus, bleeding stab wounds, maggots eating the flesh, etc.
Step 3. Use witches as decoration theme
Witches are a common Halloween decoration choice, usually with cauldrons, black cats, broomsticks, and bats.
- Make a magician's hand. Insert candy corn into the fingertips of disposable gloves. Fill the remaining part of the glove with popcorn. Tie with twine or raffia. Make as many hands as you want and hang or throw them in the yard as decoration.
- Make a flying witch's broom that's hovering. Hang it from a twig or elsewhere in your yard.
Step 4. Create ghost and spirit decorations
There are plenty of alternatives as long as you have a plastic bag and netting and white sheets!
- Make scary ghosts out of shopping bags.
- Turn your dog into a ghost and release him in the yard on Halloween.
- Find out about how to make a ghost so you can come up with many more spooky ghost decorating ideas.
Step 5. Try making decorations based on popular scary icons
For example, pocong, mummy, and kuntilanak.
- Create an alien cocoon. Hang these cocoons from tree branches. The results will be even better if you can make the cocoons glow mysteriously.
- Mummy. While you're at it, you can also make mummy themed cakes.
- Make a pocong doll. Fill the bolster with a material such as cotton and tie it on top. Stand this doll or hang it from a tree.
