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- Makes a Halloween decoration
- Prop includes creepy sounds along with hilarious phrases
- Sound and motion activated
- Top panel slides down to reveal the coffin's occupant
- Requires 4 AA Batteries (not included)
Are your Halloween decorations going to be tasteful or trashy this year? For some people, Halloween means an opportunity to go garish. But while it's true that many citizen enjoy the jokey scariness and prank-filled climate of this old festival, some just aren't that into the whole nightmare theme that seems to dominate the season.
Fortunately, there's fullness of color in the autumn palette to delineate your home Halloween decor if you don't feel like resorting to the macabre. The fall brings a wide variety of beautiful colors and fruits to inspire homemade decorations and provide materials for your craft projects and household designs.
After all, the holiday has its roots in an old festival to celebrate the transition of the seasons. So there are fullness of good seeing harvest time themes to celebrate this time of year, with garnish ideas and recipes that evoke time-honored customs and rituals.
So if you love Halloween but don't fancy jumping on the blood-curdling bandwagon of scary Halloween decorations, why not deck your house with seasonal trimmings and flourishes instead? Here are some suggestions for decorations and ornaments to keep you in the holiday spirit:
Pumpkin decorating ideas: carve them if you want -- but they'll probably last longer if you leave them intact and decorate them instead. Try painting funny faces and giving your pumpkin characters extra personality with a hat and scarf, or maybe even some trendy shades for a 'cool dude' look. Seasonal collections of fruits and gourds: these look great when artfully arranged as a mantelpiece or table display. House decor: anticipate some of the elegant Christmas trimmings by putting up a garland or front door wreath that uses autumn colors. Make a Corn Dolly: this old tradition stems from a time when farmers wished to honor the spirits of the harvest and encourage them to return the following year to provide good crops. These figures, made from bundles of wheat, can be as uncomplicated or interpret as you wish and can form part of a centerpiece or an outdoor decoration.
Even if you prefer to give the spooky side of Halloween a miss, you can still take the opportunity to celebrate the autumnal traditions that are traditionally related with the festival.
Halloween Decorations: Make It Spiffy Not Spooky On All Hallows EveBrand: Kurt Adler
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This is one of the most overlooked Halloween decorations you can do...for Free! And, you might just find it in your own backyard! Forget the costly paper, plastic, and styrofoam junk from the stores. If you want a lot of boo-per-buck, go find some dead tree branches!
Categories: Decoration. Cool. Bigger is better. Cheaper is better.
Skill level: Super Easy.
Time needed: 30 minutes - 1 hour.
Expense: Totally Free!
"Trees are Not just for Christmas!"
Hit the streets and look for branches that have fallen off of the trees. For indoor centerpieces or "trim", gain up a lot of twigs and small branches. I live in Los Angeles (very urban... Not a rural country road), and I see branches and limbs on the ground every single day on the streets and sidewalks. These are yours for the taking, and they will give you the biggest bang for "no bucks!" For outdoor decorations, the size of the branches are merely diminutive to what you can carry or haul away. I head out in my car and carry a battery operated saw so that I can trim down immense limbs to fit into the back of my car.
The awesome thing about dead tree branches is that they are typically "made to order" excellent for Halloween. Obviously, look for the more "spooky" ones with some density and a lot of "branching" because this may come in extra handy if you want to add spider webbing.
Use rope and/or bungie cords to fasten the branches to pillars, posts, mailboxes, entry ways...wherever you can find a sturdy place to preserve the weight. Use some extra awareness with regard to your Halloween visitors: Make sure there are no (sharp) branches pointing out at eye-level (both adults' and kids' eye level.) Make sure there's no way a heavy branch can in effect be pulled down by a child or slip off of its mount. Protection with huge "props" is a renowned concern.
The bigger the branches and the more branches that you use outside, the more decrepit and awesome your haunted castle will be. Aside from "filling in the vacant holes" in between your store-bought or home-made props, it adds to the ambiance. I say "no home haunting is faultless without 'em!"
Another great thing to do is to add decorations to the branches! ('sounds familiar! But don't pull out any Christmas ornaments!) The best thing is to add the effortlessly ready Halloween spider webbing to the branches. You can do this on small interior centerpieces or the immense outside haunted trees. The webbing is highly easy to work with on tree branches because you can in effect spin, pull, and threat strands from branch to branch. A quick "side bar" on webbing: If ever there was a Halloween Decorations decorating "offense" that habitancy should be ticketed for, it's blobby webbing on bushes and walls. What the heck? Webbing is just that: Webbing. Not Blobbing! A spider web should have taught strands and look like...uh...webs! --not clumps of cotton! The trick is to work the bag-o-webs down to diminutive clumps and then pull them long and far into strands from branch to branch. Put a diminutive time and art into this. Would you throw a pile of garland onto a Christmas tree? (Don't respond that... I have a feeling the same offenders might do just that!)
If you are using any of the black-light tricks and the tree limbs will be near the lights, you might think spray painting the limbs with fluorescent paint. You can whether coat 'em, or lightly dapple them.
One last totally free "trick" that's overlooked is leaves! If you are "lucky enough" to have them already on the lawn...leave them there over Halloween. If, like me here in Los Angeles, you don't have any on the lawn, just go seeing for a pile somewhere. Again, even though we live in a warm atmosphere here, there are many, many trees that lose their leaves. I take a garbage bag, hunt some down, and bring them home to sprinkle on the lawn. It's especially great to put them nearby tombstones and such. There's nothing more "half decorated" than a bunch of "scary tombstones" on top of a well manicured lawn. For Halloween...messier is better!
Without a doubt, these "nature's freebies" are the best, easiest, cheapest, biggest tricks to add to your Halloween decoration displays.
Out on a Limb on Halloween - Using Tree Branches For the Best, Spookiest, Cheapest Decorations Ever!Brand: BZB Goods
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