Dress up the garden for Halloween

Published March 5, 2012 | By Jane

Holidays like Halloween offer fu with landscape decor

One of the fun parts of the autumn holiday season is decorating your yard or entry. Halloween offers an opportunity have fun dressing up the garden just like trick-or-treaters. You can turn your house into a haunted mansion or surround your home with witches, ghosts or ghouls. Interesting Halloween décor comes in all different forms. You can buy fabrics, wigs and building materials to create your own monsters or structures from scratch. Or you can purchase ready-made creatures, characters, inflatables or other décor and put together a scene of your own.

Dress up the garden for Halloween using natural materials like fallen autumn leaves, bales of hay or bundles of corn stalks. Mix these with whatever structures or characters you want to add to your scene. You can add accents of gourds, squashes, colorful dried Indian corn, or drape crepe paper, colored fabrics, netting or string up fake spider webbing. Add sounds to your Halloween scene from dangling sound-producing décor or broadcast haunting music or sound effects on outdoor speakers. (Please be considerate of your neighbors!)

Light up your Halloween scene at night. Backlighting will form a silhouette and can be best achieved by hiding a light behind the object you want to silhouette. Front lighting not only highlights the front details, but it will cast a shadow of whatever is being lit, so keep that in mind as another effect you can use in your design. You can also get interesting effects by shining lights upward, downward, at different angles, or using colored lights. Black lights will punch out whites and make any fluorescent colors glow. Remember lighting effects and decor can both turn blank walls into effective parts of your holiday design.

To dress up your garden or entry for Halloween successfully, keep in mind it is just like creating a successful stage set or landscape design: all the parts need to work together to create a whole picture. Try to have one single focal point to catch the eye. Draw the eye to that focal point by leading up to in with supporting items and effects. Try to stick to one theme and make all the parts blend. Don’t overdue your décor. Too many things going on at once will take away from the overall picture.

Decorating for Halloween can be fun for friends and family. Although you can create your own piece of Halloween art, you can also join together with others to make it into a fun project. Invite friends over for a decorating party or get the children involved for a family project. Yes, decorating the garden for Halloween can be as much fun as dressing in costumes and going trick-or-treating. With the right choices it might be even more fun.

Originally posted 2010-10-19 05:47:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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