Decorate Your Yard on Halloween to Be Scary

Do you want to have the creepiest house on the block? Make your house the envy of the neighborhood? This article can help you with everything you need to create a commercial-worthy Halloween lawn!

Steps

  1. Buy black lights. They are cheap and can add an eerie effect to your yard. Replace the regular bulbs with black bulbs. (Your porch light or garage light.)
  2. Make a dummy. Stuff some old clothes[jeans, sweatshirts, gloves] and a mask and put them in order to look like a zombie with pillows and cloths. You could put a paper that looks like it's been to hell and back in the dead guy's hand. to make it looks like it only just made it, you could bury it and leave it for a day or two and then dig it up again. If that doesn't give you the desired effect, you can always dab wet teabags on it and rip the edges a little.
  3. Get some old planks of wood and make them look like gravestones by writing with Sharpie™ markers such things as:
    • "M.T. Koffin,"
    • "Here lies a merry lass who aimed for the brake and hit the gas,"
    • "Izzy Gone,"
    • "Barry M. Deep,"
    • "Al B. Ritebac,"
    • "Justin Tyme," or
    • "Ima Kreep".
  4. Buy some fake cobwebs at a store for $1-$4 and stretch it over objects like chairs, gravestones, railings, trees or bushes.
  5. Play scary sounding CDs that you can buy at stores for $1-$3 dollars. They add to the mood.
  6. If you make gravestones, Add mounds of fertilizer in front to make it look realistic. Add fake rubber arms or feet sticking out like a zombie trying to get out of its grave.
  7. Make some spooky portraits and hang them in your house or your haunted house. You can make them by taking a picture of a kid in a mask or print out some ones on grimghosts.com under "the art corridor".
  8. Try to buy a cheap fog machine to give a grim affect to your yard.



Tips

  • Don't cut the grass for a few weeks. It adds to the abandoned scary haunted house effect!
  • Always act safe and do not leave stuff out that trick or treaters can trip on.
  • Strobe lights are fine as long as you don't use more than 3,some people have vertigo and other sicknesses that could be affected.
  • You can use beacon lights or other lights to make a cool affect

Warnings

  • Don't scare people into hysteria! Some people get too easily freaked out.
  • Be nice to little kids and don't compete for the most houses or candy. It's mean.
  • Some parents people may be disturbed by blood and gore so do not use too much of it.
  • Don't steal anyone's candy and don't weird out people when they answer the door.
  • Don't go overboard with graphic decorations - it could freak out people, especially little kids.
  • Don't freak out kids with a scary or bloody realistic costume.

Things You'll Need

  • clothes
  • black lights
  • masks
  • creativity!
  • money
  • gravestones
  • skeletons
  • plastic ravens or crows
  • fake blood (not too much)
  • candy/chips
  • dry ice
  • fog machine
  • rubber body parts
  • spiderwebs
  • yellow caution tape
  • scary music CD
  • Wood pieces and a Sharpie
  • old clothes and cloth/pillows

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