Big on Halloween spirit but short on time and/or money? These simple decorating ideas will save the day.
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Go to the dime store, and buy a bag or two of plastic bugs. Then, scatter them around the food on your buffet table.
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Giant plastic rats, available at dime stores, look great perched next to dishes on the snack tables.
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Remember how scary Stephen King’s “The Shining” was? Here’s an effect borrowed from the movie that’s easy to create in a bathroom, if you happen to have a tile wall opposite the bathroom sink mirror (or some other non-staining, easily cleanable surface). Simply take a cheap red lipstick and scrawl the word REDRUM on the wall. When someone looks up while washing their hands, they will, of course, see the word MURDER.
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To make a spooky zombie for the yard, stuff some old clothes with leaves.
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If you don’t want anyone to go upstairs during your party, scatter the stairs with carved jack-o’-lanterns for an eerie display. You could carve small pumpkins with a single letter on each that, when put together, spell “Keep Out.”
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For a great outdoor display that gives the effect of glowing faces floating in the dark, hang jack-o’-lanterns at various lengths from plant hangers.
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