This Halloween, stand out to trick-or-treaters with these spooky ideas for upgrading your home’s exterior.
This lets passersby know that you’re home and open for Halloween business.
“We use brightly-coloredpainted pumpkinsand felt skeletons to highlight the fun and playfulness of Halloween,” Meacham says.
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TheHome Depotalso offers larger-than-life characters like a towering ghost and giant animated Jack Skellington.
Options vary fromfun-loving to spine-chilling.
These were our favorite homes when we were trick-or-treating back in the day."
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Use your very own front yard to craft a graveyard alternative to a traditional maze.
Purchase a pack of faux tombstones and place them throughout the yard.
Stick a fewposable skeletonbones throughout, giving the illusion of them escaping from their grave.
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Have guests walk through the homemade cemetery to reach the end goal: candy galore!
Add small decorations likefake cobwebsacross your windows or a skeleton hand peeking out of the candy dish.
Halloween stores carry an abundance of spooky products to suit your needs.
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There are many available to stream for free, from ghoulish screams to classic Monster Mash-like party tunes.
Add a fog machine to make the ambience even more eerie.
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