Another Hallowe'en Silly Question
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GoofyMom · 08-06-2002, 11:35 AM

Do you decorate your house and/or yard for Hallowe'en?

We decorate the yard with spiderwebs and other things like those bags you fill with leaves. I made some big haunted houses and spooky trees that I stick in the lawn and spotlight. We have "tree masks" that we tie around our big oak trees so they have faces. I have battery operated hanging lanterns (like paper lanterns) that have Hallowe'en pictures on them that we light so that kids can see the way to the house easily. Last year I used glow in the dark paint and painted faces on small pumpkins. And of course the jack-o-lanterns! We all choose a pumpkin and one of those Pumpkin Master designs and we each carve a really elaborate jack-o-lantern.

**LilMarcieMouse** · 08-06-2002, 01:16 PM

Yes the inside and my mom hates it.I made a ghost for out front too.

Dumbo · 08-06-2002, 02:11 PM

I have a light up scary house that I'll put in the window. I also have some Halloween window clings.

Jsbalcio1 · 08-06-2002, 02:22 PM

DF's family is big into Halloween. Her Brother is the worst. Her brother takes over there parents garage for an elaborate haunted house. He get everyone in costume and has professional theatrical lighting and smoke machines. It is a big hit in the neighborhood.

iloverags2 · 08-06-2002, 05:09 PM

We hang ghosts from the tree out front, put up the crashing witch on the porch, and carve pumpkins to put in the window.

BostonTeaParty · 08-06-2002, 07:12 PM

Okay, here is the picture of our "Skull" in the living room window on Halloween, courtesy of DH. Cool isn't it???

Nancy [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

luvnwdwgal · 08-06-2002, 07:29 PM

I've never really decorated for Halloween. Our house sits too far back from the road for anyone to see it anyway.

Sher'ee · 08-06-2002, 07:37 PM

Halloween is my all time favorite holiday, so I go all out. I have to do the party at school every year and I'm bummed because this is my last year doing it [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img] But I have a huge cobweb and lighted spider on my garage door, jack-o-lanterns on the porch, home made grave markers all over the yard(with a few dead people coming up), ghosts in the trees, you name it. Last year was the first time I've been in a haunted house in years and there was 2 huge ones in Kansas City, The beast and the Edge of Hell (they have web sites and you can see parts where people are actually going through them). They were awesome. Scared DH something fierce a couple of times. We also have a haunted corn field maze here that is cool at night.

BostonTeaParty · 08-07-2002, 12:11 AM

Oh yes, we love to decorate for halloween. We carve up the jack-o-lanterns with the cool kits we buy every year. Here's a great tip: My DH (the very creative one in this operation) took a skull picture from the kit and projected the image on a giant bed sheet that we never used. He traced the skull image with a marker, then cut into the sheet as you would to the pumpkin. We put the sheet up in our living room window (a huge bay window) and lit it from behind with an orange lightbulb. The effect was awesome!!! Neighbors were walking by just to check it out. If I can find a copy of the picture to post here I will, but it might take me a little while to find it.

We also bake the pumpkin seeds in the oven, they are delicious. And we rent scary movies to watch all day and after trick or treating.

My next door neighbor is even better than us. He has a barn for his horses, and he has a witch in front of the barn that he lights so it casts giant shadows on the side of the barn at night. He also has stocks (like in olde Salem), an open coffin, a hangman's rope (all backlit on the barn), and a really scary jack-o-lantern lit up in the cupola on top of the barn. He also plays sound effects music. It's awesome!!!

Nancy [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[ 08-06-2002, 12:12 PM: Message edited by: NancyW ]

Tara O'Hara · 08-07-2002, 12:16 AM

Donna, Halloween is up there with my birthday and Christmas in our house!!! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] We decorate and set up a little mini haunted house when the kids come around! We ALL get dressed up, too!

Signed,

Jack Skellington
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GoofyMom · 08-07-2002, 11:50 AM

Nancy, that skull in the window is pretty cool!

BostonTeaParty · 08-07-2002, 01:04 PM

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Originally posted by greystone98:
Nancy, that skull in your window is waay cool!

Now how did he do that?

<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">I posted this above but I tend to be verbose, [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] so in case you missed it greystone, I reposted below how DH did it.

Nancy [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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Here's a great tip: My DH (the very creative one in this operation) took a skull picture from the kit and projected the image on a giant bed sheet that we never used. He traced the skull image with a marker, then cut into the sheet as you would to the pumpkin. We put the sheet up in our living room window (a huge bay window) and lit it from behind with an orange lightbulb. The effect was awesome!!!

Teresa · 08-07-2002, 04:46 PM

Halloween- bigger than christmas, birthdays, anniversary, and back to school day all in one for DH
OUr house is decorated in and out (the only room not done is ours) people come from all over town to check it out, and DH take the day off work (yes, he considers it a national holiday)
One year, he had a M*A*S*H unit set up, with severed limbs, friends "dying", blood (chocolate syrup and ketchup), and a grill for the intestines, he even bought REAL cow brains, and eyes for effect
Large bats "swoop" down from the peak of the roof, lights and fog guide people to the door,
and yes, every year, one of the older kids stays at the end of the drive and hands out candy to the kids that are too scared to come to the door

wdwlovers · 08-07-2002, 04:59 PM

Halloween is a huge deal at our house. DH and I normally dress up to hand out candy. We decorate the inside and outside of the house with spider webs, lights, etc. Each of us always carve at least 2 pumpkins too!