Halloween Decorations

Halloween Decorations questions and answers

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Q: Halloween Decorations?
Does anyone have any good Ideals for Halloween Yard decorations that are cheap too do? I would appreciate any ideals. Thanks

A: i try the dollar store or big lots. Find stuff around the house like boxes to make gave stones. old clothing for a scare crow. also try you local goodwill store.

Q: When do stores start carrying fall and Halloween decorations?
Fall is my favorite season. When do stores start carrying fall decorations such as wreathes, linens, candles, scents, etc.....and when do they start carrying Halloween items such as pumpkins? I went to Target today and didn't see any fall decor.

A: The fall merchandise should start rolling in soon. Back-to-school season is winding down in the Target world, and we're starting to get in a lot of our Halloween apparel ( we even have infant costumes out already ). Sweatshirts have started to roll in, so I'm sure autumn/Halloween decor is only a matter of time. Your safest bet is to start checking around after Labor Day ( September 3rd ),because the back to school stuff will be on the way out.

Q: What are good ideas for Halloween decorations?
Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday. I love decorating the outside of my house. Decorations can range from cute things to scary things. They can be homemade crafts or products from stores.

A: decorations??? ok Online store is www.partybell.com and www.spicylegs.com Some mask ( http://www.spicylegs.com/c-58-hats-wigs-masks.aspx ) Bobbing Ghosts Start with a piece of cheesecloth 2 yards long and 1 yard wide. Place a helium filled balloon (white is best) in the middle of the fabric and gather loosely around balloon. Draw a horrid mask on the cloth with a felt pen. You can put some ghosts in a box and when people open the box the ghosts will float up and scare everyone! Or, you can place them on string in front of an open window or a fan and watch them gently move in the breeze. Icky Cobwebs Cut some string into 4 foot lengths and tape them to the ceiling. You should have a very dim room for this. Just before the victim arrives you can hold a bowl of water up to the string and get it wet. When people walk in the wet, slimy string will brush across their foreheads and scare them! Body Parts This is a good decoration for a dimly lit room at party time. Have several bowls of body parts displayed to horrify your friends. Cut up a bunch of hot dogs lenghwise for severed fingers.Cook some spaghetti noodles and add some red and blue food coloring for veins. A bunch of cocktail onions rolling around in a bowl looks like eyeballs. Fill a red balloon with warm water and spread it with strawberry jam. Invite your guests to touch your brain! Body Parts This is a good decoration for a dimly lit room at party time. Have several bowls of body parts displayed to horrify your friends. Cut up a bunch of hot dogs lenghwise for severed fingers.Cook some spaghetti noodles and add some red and blue food coloring for veins. A bunch of cocktail onions rolling around in a bowl looks like eyeballs. Fill a red balloon with warm water and spread it with strawberry jam. Invite your guests to touch your brain! Crunching Bones Underfoot Spread some dried bread and pretzels under a rug. When your guests walk across the rug it will sound like crunching bones underfoot! Sound Effects You can record several scary sounds and play it back during the festivities. A very large sheet of poster board or sheet metal makes great thunder. Uncooked rice poured onto a cookie sheet sounds like rain. Crinkle a handful of cellophane for a roaring fire. To get a good scream you can, well -- scream. Snap carrots in half for the sound of breaking bones. Flap a plastic bag in front of the microphone for the sound of bats. Slowly blow bubbles with a straw into a bowl for that bog sound. Hunt around your house and the garden to find a squeaky hinge somewhere and tape it before someone gets to it with a can of oil. Lighting When you have everything so dimly lit it's a good idea to have some reflective tape over the Exits. A black light bulb is always a good effect, especially if you are dressed as a skeleton!

Q: Looking for free Halloween decorations and tiki decorations that anyone is trying to get rid of.?
I'm having a Halloween costume party for my daughter but don't have any decorations anyone willing to donate some old unwanted decorations. Also looking for any Tiki decorations that might be donated for my other daughter. Please help Email me. p.s I've tried Craig's list no luck

A: try freecycle.org

Q: Where to buy scary Halloween Decorations in London?
A friend will be in London this week, staying right around Paddington station, not far from Picadilly Circus. I need some good, quality Halloween decorations, especially hanging paper skeletons. I have large walls, and need something to create visual impact. Where can my friend go shopping? Can you tell me exact addresses, or if they have a phone number or website?

A: Here is a google map search. I would call some of the numbers listed if you don't get a better answer here. http://maps.google.com/maps?rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&q=costumes&near=London,+United+Kingdom&fb=1&sa=X&oi=local_group&resnum=1&ct=image

Q: When is it ok to start putting up Halloween Decorations?
Personally I like to do it the either the second or third week in September. Is this ok? Also does anyone know any places around the Lehigh Valley area in Pennsylvania that have Cheap Halloween Decorations? THANKS!!!

A: As soon as it starts turning cool, I thinking of Halloween. The earliest we've ever decorated was mid-September. It's never to early to get in the festive spirit for the best holiday of the year.

Q: How to build life sized, outdoor, halloween decorations?
Does anyone have recomendations on how to build life sized halloween decorations? For years we have been building figures out of wire frames and putting clothes on them but we are looking for a better way, so they can have more shape then the wire allows, like a horse. We thought of paper maiche but that would ruin while outdoors. Is there any thing we can use to harden farbic, like burlap, around a frame? Perferably something that isnt very expensive...

A: You can make PVC skeleton, wrap these with newspaper, cloth... whatever until you have until they are thick enough to suit your taste for the right size. Do a final wrap with cheap cloth and then apply several coats of an exterior varnish or polyurethane product. This will waterproof the bodies and then you can dress them as you choose. You can use thess over and over and change costumes as you choose.

Q: What are some old video games that would make for good Halloween decorations?
My dorm every year does a safe trick or treat. This year we are having a competition for best decorated hallway. Our theme is going to be old school video games. So, what old video games are out there that would make good Halloween decorations?

A: the castlevania games. you played a vampire hunter on his crusade to destroy dracula or something like that. the game took place in all kinds of creepy locales, like old bell towers, graveyards, castles, and stuff. you had to fight medusas and ghost pirates and vampires and skeletons, and all sorts of other creepy things. the main character used a whip, but you could also get axes and throwing daggers and holy water, and a boomerang cross. since super mario world, mario games have had haunted houses with ghost baddies. they would look cool as decorations. i always thought the image of gannon from the first two zelda games was especially creepy. he was a dark, pig-like demon with horns. if you can get a copy of zelda 2 the adventures of link, lose the game and check out the image of the laughing gannon. it is a well-known game image that you could probably create pretty easily. there are a lot of old nintendo games that were kind of creepy, but might not have any memorable imagery that would be fun for halloween. i'd stick with recognizeable images from well-known games. some more things that may or may not work: few enemies in a game were as creepy as the metroids. these jellyfish-like aliens would swoop down out of nowhere, latch onto your face and just start sucking the energy out of you. the only way to destroy them was to freeze them and then drop a super bomb on them. many of the metroid bosses were creepy as well, especially ridley, the demonic-looking pteradactyl/dragon thing. lots of scary enemies in dragon warrior. ghosts, wolves, dragons, skeletons, creepy magicians... but i'm not sure how familiar the american audience is with dragon warrior games. pacman ghosts? hope this has helped you with some ideas

Q: Where can i buy cheap outside halloween decorations online?
I trying to look for some outside halloween decorations online. pumpkins, candles, plastic spiders etc...That are cheap and i can buy online. Can anyone help???

A: try partydelights.co.uk/halloween.they seem to stock for every occasion.they have fast delivery

Q: What are some easy and cheap (scary) Halloween decorations to make at home?
I'd like to know some cheap, easy, and scary decorations that you can quickly make at home and put up in your yard for Halloween. Thanks!

A: Little ghosts hanging from your trees using either white garbage bags filled with paper or hankies (white or colored) tieing string around neck. Make paper mache ghosts with a balloon for the head. I just used white flour and water for the glue part dipping strips of newspaper in it and applying to balloon in layers draping down long for the ghost figure. You'll have to place balloon on something tall to do this and let dry overnight. Also cheesecloth dipped in liquid starch stiffens when dry draping over a balloon. (Balloon is popped after drying. Make eyes with black marker. Make a graveyard out of cardboard for tombstones and spray paint; same with ghouls. Have fun!

Q: When does Disneyland put up their Halloween decorations?
I want to go on September 28 but I'm not sure if the Halloween decorations with the Nightmare Before Christmas will be up yet? Anyone know when it starts?

A: i was just at disneyland, and the "halloweentime" that they started last year will return, with halloween decorations debuting at the park on the 21st of this month, going until october 31st. the trick-or-treating in DCA will only be from about the 25th-31st of october though, i think. they've already got halloween pins, snowglobes, costumes, etc on sale in both parks though.

Q: Can your landlord prohibit Halloween Decorations?
My neighbor, who rents her house, put up a few Halloween decorations last week. She put a wreath on her door and a couple of those lightup pumpkins on the porch. She got a call from the landlord a couple of days later telling her to put the decorations away (I guess she had driven by) because the landlord doesn't celebrate Halloween because it is a pagen festival and she didn't want anyone from her church who sees the house to think she is condoning the celebration of the holiday. I told my neighbor that I don't think she could forbid her from decorating, but I wasn't sure. Does anyone know if your landlord can prevent you from decorating for the holdays?

A: The landlord can only restrict decor if it is a PUD or Condo Association with covenants that control exterior appearances . If the property is not part of an association with those rules for everyone , The landlord has no authority except with regards to health hazards and such . At the same time , beware , unless your neighbor has a lease , The landlord can opt to evict with a 30 day notice . >

Q: Where to find scary Halloween decorations in London, around Paddington station?
A friend will be in London this week, staying right around Paddington station, not far from Picadilly Circus. I need some good, quality Halloween decorations, especially hanging paper skeletons. I have large walls, and need something to create visual impact. Where can my friend go shopping? Can you tell me exact addresses, or if they have a phone number or website?

A: 1. Paddington is not really near Piccadilly Circus - it's 2½ miles away (or 6 stops on the Bakerloo line). 2. All this stuff you can find in supermarkets and newsagents, even where you live.

Q: Our children's elementary school needs Halloween decorations. How can we get some free?
The Halloween party is being hosted by the PTA, we have a very limited budget. There are 700 children in the school. We asked for volumteers and only 6 of us, all parents, signed up to do the event. We expected more parents to help... So we have 2 problems... volunteers and decorations.... What do you think we should do?

A: I work at a Jr. high; I have found that sometimes volunteering is too much of a commitment for parents. But, sending fliers home of your wish list, asking parents to try and pick up 1 item works well. It doesn't make anyone feel obligated. During certain holidays I have even made phone calls to local grocery stores to see if they wanted to donate things; you would be surprised at how giving people can be. Good luck :)

Q: Can I put out Halloween decorations since today is officially the Autumnal Equinox?
I was going to put some of my indoor Halloween decorations out since their just in my kitchen ready, and it is the first day of the Autumnal Equinox today which starts the first official day of Autumn.

A: I've put up my more "autumn" decorations, actually just because I wish it felt like real autumn. Yesterday they let our school out early because of the heat....sheesh....I will wait to do the Halloween stuff until Oct 1. You should see our house. My husband was born on Oct 31 so Halloween is his big day and our house is decorated to the hilt inside and out. All the kids come to us because my hubby puts on a whole show for them. I just hope he doesn't sweat to death in his costume this year!!