Haunting Halloween Easy Decorating Ideas

Leaves in hues of red, orange and yellow...witches, vampires, ghosts, bats, skeletons, pumpkins, and scarecrows are the signs that Fall and Halloween are upon us. We grew up in Towanda, PA, nestled in the heart of the Endless Mountains, where the colors of Fall abound! It was such a beautiful time of year, even though we knew that the whiteness of snow would soon follow. Although the colorful leaves and white snow paint a pretty picture, there is a lot of work to cleaning up those gifts from Mother Nature. We were young and naive and for a 50 cents would rake the leaves or shovel the snow.

Fall Festivals and Halloween celebrations are also a big part of the beautiful Fall season. Back then, we made our own costumes and could safely go around the whole town gathering candy and homemade goodies. Everyone made decorations for their homes and the stores even had window painting contests. The Halloween parade was a huge deal with floats made by every school and community organization, bands from high schools throughout the county, and kids, adults, and animals marching for prizes. Oh, the good old days!

Things are very different nowadays, with store bought costumes, trick or treating only in the safety of your neighborhood, and very few towns having a parade. Thankfully, people still decorate with pumpkins, black cats, bats, corn stalks, monsters, witches, spiders and ghosts. Some people even put up their Christmas decorations before the snow and cold weather arrive and the towns start to take on a magical glow from all the lights and decorations.

Though no longer homemade, one nice thing about the decorations people use today is that they can be recycled from year to year and left up longer than the decorations of yesteryear. Regal Art and Gift has designed some fun and colorful characters and decor that are durable enough for the outdoors, but elegant enough to grace the inside of your home and even be a centerpiece for a table.

Welcome your guests and trick or treaters, with a welcome sign that can be hung on a sign post, a fence, a wall, or a door. Keep several with one for each season of year, then you will have a beautiful display that is easy to update with each holiday or season. Spook up your foyer or front of your house, with some colorful and cute pieces of 3-D wall art.

Decorative garden stakes come in many sizes and shapes and can be "planted" in your garden or yard or can be displayed on your porch or in your home, in a special stand. The jiggle stakes and jiggle wings stakes, and they do jiggle, can be grouped together in your yard or stuck in a planter to peek out amongst the leaves. If you have a big pumpkin that you'd like to spiff up, then stick some of the jiggle stakes into the top of the pumpkin, for a cute outdoor decoration on your porch or front yard.

With three sizes of pumpkin lanterns you can make a beautiful display that will last forever. There is room for battery operated candles to make your pumpkins light up and delight young and old, while not being a fire hazard. Add a sculpted 3-D metal black cat to your pumpkins for Halloween, then pack up the cat and leave the pumpkins out for Fall and into Thanksgiving.

No matter how you celebrate or how you decorate, Halloween is just one of those fun holidays that gets us ready for the whirlwind of the continuous celebrations between the end of October into the New Year.

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