For a long time, there was an amazing Halloween house down the street. Every year on the stroke of the day before Halloween, the people who lived there would unload a piece of fabric as large as the front of their house and drape it from top to bottom, making the entire home look like a castle. From black lights to a giant skeleton superimposed on the tree across the street, their house was outstanding and no one could compete. Sadly, they moved away last year. However, their Halloween shenanigans inspired me to do more with my house on Halloween. … Continue reading →

Are you looking forward to some spooky meals in the near future? Maybe you’re planning a Halloween party for kids or their adults. If you want to create a spooky-looking table, here are a few ideas. Create a scene. Get an orange or black tablecloth and get the kids to stamp it with Halloween pumpkins or black cats. If you’re feeling crafty, glue or appliqué these images onto the tablecloth. Do the same with placemats and napkins. Add a spider or a black cat to the top of the napkin ring. Make pumpkins or haunted houses into a Halloween centerpiece. … Continue reading →

This Halloween, we’re making an entrance. Not with our costumes, that is for sure. I am not all that proficient at sewing, and I must confess that we just bought my daughter’s costume secondhand at a thrift store. It is homemade from some home, though. Guilt, guilt. No, I like decorating our house instead. Kids grow and you need to make them costumes every year – the nerve! Houses, well, sometimes they grow, but generally they stay the same approximate dimensions. We have the usual skeletons and mini-pumpkins in the trees and spiders and black cats on the window. Gradually, … Continue reading →

If you want to be known as the coolest Halloween House, or if you want an opportunity to get to meet your neighbors this year, you should plan to create a Halloween experience in your garage. Your Halloween Experience can be a haunted house, a kid friendly environment, a chance to evangelize, or a two minute party for everyone that comes through. Here are some ideas you can use. After cleaning out your garage make a maze. You can use stacked boxes or bins, stacked hay, or plywood on stands to make temporary walls. A maze in a small garage … Continue reading →