With Halloween coming up, it’s time to start decorating for the trick-or-treaters. Depending on how much time and money you want to spend, you could deck out the entire front yard or keep it simple.

For those who have a large front porch, this might be the perfect area for spooking the kids. Consider some affordable spooky Halloween porch decoration ideas to prepare for the holiday:

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Spider!

Ghosts, jack-o-lanterns and witches are all common themes for Halloween. One of the scarier items is a spider web, complete with a black spider. You can create an extensive spider web over your front porch with white rope and illuminate it with string lights. You can use trees, shrubs and the porch to make it huge. Then you can create a spider made of balloons, felt, styrofoam and googly eyes to lay on the web. It’s a perfect way to add that element of fantasy without actually getting an arachnid.

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Foggy Effect

Another way to make your porch a little scary is to add fog. You can either spend a lot of time trying to melt dry ice on the night of Halloween, or you can invest in a fog machine (get one on Amazon). A fog machine is probably the safer and more affordable option, as you can use it again over the years. You can put it on the steps or right by your front door so the kids will walk right into it and get the haunted house feel as they knock on the door.

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Spooky Sound

To complete the fog’s effect, you will need to have a sound to complement it. What better way than to replace your doorbell with a creepy sound? You can install a special doorbell that has a special high-pitched chime or maybe a ghost’s howl. If you don’t have a doorbell, you can call an electrician to wire one for you especially for the occasion. You can also have a soundtrack playing of organ music or other Halloween music on an iPod speaker from your window pane to complete the effect.

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Low Lighting

Finally, you’ll have to pitch your porch into pseudo-darkness, so replace your bright light bulbs with darker bulbs colored purple or blue. You can also get creative and hang a chandelier from a thrift shop and then cover it with fake cobwebs. You also can cover your porch and front yard in string lights of different colors to offset the darkness so there’s a pathway leading up to it. You don’t want the kids to trip on the way to your front door.

Published in: Decoration | Author: The HomeSource

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