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Halloween Decorating Tips and Tricks

  • April 10, 2010 9:21 pm
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Special Effect Lighting

Halloween is all about darkness, shadows and the lack of light. However, the right kind of lights really enhance what we may not want to see! Props such as skeletons, ghosts, or witches really come to life with a colored light. Place a clip on or swing arm lamp to shine on the prop at an angle. Try to find the best angle to be effective. Tape a cellophane gel approximately 2 inches from the light. You can buy color heat resistant plastic and gels at photo shops, film or theatre stores.

For a even simpler lighting effect, just use colored light bulbs which are available at hardware and electric supply stores.

Strobe lights, strobes’ simulating lightning strikes, or black lights add special effects is you wish to spend the money.

Creating Illuminated Images

You can create images out of things such as bats, spiders, witches on the wall of a dark room. Cut out the desired image about 1 inch long (small) from black paper. Center it over a flashlight and secure it in place with tape. Hold together two identical magnifying glasses in front of the light and experiment with until you get the right focus on the wall. Cut a piece of cardboard tube to fit the correct distance between the flashlight and the lenses. Tape the apparatus together and place on a sturdy table or chair which is out ofsight.

Sound Effects

Every haunting requires eerie noises. You can find soundtracks or creepy music, screams, howls, spooky laughter, footsteps, animals like wolves howling, owls hooting, cats and dogs etc. Check out the internet and local library. You can tape your own sounds like clanking chains, heavy footsteps or footsteps on dry leaves, screams and animal cries. Hide your recorder in a closet (door slightly opened) or an area where it will not be noticed.

Sinister Signs

Hang creepy signs on doors, gates, pillars to add to the haunted decor. Signs like “beware, stay out or else, skull and cross bones, enter at your own risk”. You’ll come up with plenty to keep visitors away!

Make these signs out of old boards painted with red blood to indicate that they were painted with blood.

Fog and Smoke

Electric fog or smoke machines can be purchased or rented. Most spew out mist or fog and do require dry ice of water. These are very effective in creating a haunted place.

Motion Effects

Place a motion sensor connected to a fan blowing under curtains or bed sheets.

Floating Ghosts

Put helium balloons with light weight white sheets draped over the balloons. Paint eyes on these sheets and let them gently sway on the balloons which are anchored to a heavy object ie. rocks if outside.

These are just a few of the many ideas out there that you can easily do or copy. Once you start, your imagination will inspire you to try even more. Make sure that you are also dressed to kill for this occasion. There are excellent Halloween Costumes to complement any frightful decor, because you definitely do no want to be the one “out of place” Halloween Night!.

Halloween Decorating Tips and Tricks

Finding the Best Halloween Costumes For 2008

  • April 4, 2010 5:21 pm

Deciding were to purchase your Halloween Costume and accessories does not have to be difficult anymore. Choosing what you want to dress as is the hard part. Halloween costumes are available everywhere and in most major cities there are many Halloween costume stores that carry a wide selection for you to choose from.

The newest way to purchase a costume is the most easy because all you have to do is go to a online costume store and you will find what you need there. Most of the destinations offer a wide selection of costumes and it can be easier than ever to shop there.

The biggest decision that you will face this Halloween season is to decide what all the members of your family will want to dress up as. It is important to start early and allow yourself plenty of time to scope out all the costumes that are available to you on the web. Remember to be creative and let your imagination run wild.

Many costumes seeker choose the traditional path of finding a Halloween costume such as Ghost, Scarecrow, Vampires, Skeletons and Pumpkins. Other choose to go with the hottest characters in the hottest movies such as, Spiderman, Ironman or Batman to name a few. Don’t be afraid to be adventurous and original because if you let your thoughts go wild your costume will be different and unique from all the other costumes out there.

You can’t go wrong dressing as one of your favorite celebrities from the TV or the movies. What party would not love to have Marilyn Monroe or Donald Trump as a guest. Celebrity costumes usually do not require a mask, just wigs and makeup but if you choose to wear a mask be sure the one you wear has good visibility and that you can breathe without obstruction.

Halloween is the one time of the year were you can pull out all the stops. You can be gruesome, sexy, mysteries, or downright wild. Don’t sell your imagination short and take some time to choose a costume that will make this Halloween one that you will never forget.

Finding the Best Halloween Costumes For 2008

Making Halloween Crafts – 3 Simple Fun Ideas For Kids

  • March 21, 2010 11:21 am

Children love the sense of creativity. When a guest appreciates something in the house and the child says, “I made it,” one can easily read that sense of pride and happiness in their eyes. Crafts are an easy means to pave way to your child’s creativity, innovative skills and thoughts. This Halloween, chalk out sometime guide your children through easy crafts and help them decorate their own room or the house.

It would be real fun working with your child and would also add to your festive mood. Here are some easy Halloween crafts that you can try with your children.

1. Pick out fun foam from the neighboring craft or department stores. next buy a pack of sheets is varied shades like white, green, black and orange. now, cut out oval & circular shapes in varied colors or paper.

On the World Wide Web that is the internet; look out for colorful Halloween images. Try searching bats, witches, black cats and skeletons. Take out prints of these images through a printer. You might need to reduce the size of the images so as to fit on to the base you have made. In case you are a good artist and can draw well, try drawing some images on your own! now cut these images from contrasting shades of fun foam. Glue these on the shapes you had cut out. now, punch a hole on the top and draw a string through this hole. Alas, hang the fun ornaments where ever you feel like!

2. You can also adapt ideas from some difficult crafts. Try hanging scary ghosts on your trees.

For this pick out an ordinary plastic bag from the near by grocery store. now cut off its handles. In place of the head, place Styrofoam ball at the top. Secure it using a rubber band. now, shred the bag’s bottom into strips. above the head, poke a hole so as to insert a string to hang. Draw a scary face on the ball!

You can also make your ghost sing in the wind. just attach some bells at the bottom of strips. This would b real fun!

3. Purchase some dark colored candles. Black would be a great option. Give your child interesting trinkets like candy corns, sequins, fun foam shapes, etc., just any vague things you get your hands on. tell your child to glue those trinkets on the candles. place them where ever you like in the house for some fun Halloween decoration!

Try these and apply your creativity to device more of such easy and interesting stuff for your kids!

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Making Halloween Crafts – 3 Simple Fun Ideas For Kids