| Here are some ideas for Halloween decorations that | | | | can also create unique lamp shades for your |
| can be used indoors or outdoors. Decorations like | | | | Halloween party. Use stiff orange and black paper cut |
| these were popular in the 1940's and many are still | | | | out like Jack-o'-lanterns, witches, cats and other |
| common-place today. | | | | popular Halloween symbols. |
| A traditional and easily prepared outdoor decoration is | | | | Popular decorations were created from various fruits |
| made of autumn leaves (real or fake) with corn | | | | and vegetables. Apples, turnips and carrots can be |
| stalks from your local farmer and lit Jack o'lanterns | | | | cut into grotesque faces and displayed as is or used |
| around the base. The corn stalks can be attached to | | | | to hold candlesticks. You can also create Halloween |
| a porch support beam, a light pole or a shepherds | | | | goblins from the fruit and vegetables. Use Jack |
| hook that held the summer's flowers. | | | | o'lanterns for the heads. The body is a smaller |
| Another traditional Halloween decoration is the Jack o' | | | | pumpkin and carrots are used for arms and legs |
| lanterns. Put them in groups, line them up on a fence, | | | | which are fastened to the body with wire. |
| porch railing, along a walkway or along a driveway. | | | | What would Halloween be without ghosts? Use a |
| Candles, dishes of alcohol and salt were popular on | | | | Jack o'lantern for the head which is attached to an |
| Hallowe'en. Add blue Christmas lights to give a ghostly | | | | upright post. Drape a white sheet or tablecloth from |
| illumination. | | | | the post. You can then pin/stake the ends of the |
| Free hand silhouettes/cuttings of black and/or orange | | | | sheet out a few feet or just allow the sheet to blow |
| construction paper hung on the windows and walls | | | | in the wind. |
| make for a neat effect. Some items to draw include | | | | Whatever your taste in Halloween decorating is, you |
| witches, pumpkins, cats, bats, elves, fairies, spiders, | | | | may find that some of these vintage halloween |
| owls, cauldrons, broomsticks or peaked hats. Search | | | | decorating ideas may be ideal for your own haunted |
| the internet for figures you can print and trace. You | | | | home this Halloween. |