Wazzup Pilipinas!
Are you excited about the spookiest night of the year? Perhaps you
are planning a party. Maybe you are just considering giving some trick-or-treat
kids a fright! We are here to help you make the most of this opportunity to be
gruesome. Leading real estate portal
MyProperty.ph has prepared 10 spooky tips for
Halloween home decoration.
1. Innovative Pumpkin
Carving
Look up some unique pumpkin carving designs. There are many
techniques you can use to make your pumpkins look even spookier, such as
moulding and drying wax onto them to create a scary lumpy texture, or creating
different surfaces for the light to fall through. The uglier and more unique
your pumpkins the better. You could even hang them on chains!
2. Orange Globe
String Lights
Put orange globe string lights behind white blinds to give
your home a spooky, orange glow. This is also useful for creating a backdrop
for your silhouettes (see the next tip).
3. Spooky Silhouettes
Either make your own or purchase some black figures to place
in front of your spookily lit windows… Skeletons, witches, ghosts, and ghouls
are a great choice. How about a crazy scientist? Just make sure that they are
positioned in terrifying poses.
4. Ominous Green
Bottles of Poison
Fill up large jars with green liquid and line the entrance
of your home with these terrifying bottles of poisonous doom. Place a cauldron
in your kitchen and fill it with water and red food colouring to make it look
like a witch’s cauldron of blood… Invite guests to stir the cauldron with an
ominous wooden spoon; don’t forget to cackle (and to protect your surfaces!).
5. Ghosts Dancing
Around a Campfire
Create some scarecrow-like figures for the garden and wrap
them in white sheets… Stuff their heads so that they look like people. People
will think they are ghosts! Place them in a circle, hand in hand. In the center
of the circle, place a messy pile of orange and red LED lights, which are
suitable for the outdoors. This will look like a bonfire. Enjoy the look on the
faces of passers-by as they walk past a circle of dancing ghouls.
6. Front Garden
Graveyard
Invest in some plastic headstones for Halloween… This is a
fantastic way to decorate your outdoor space, and it does not cause too much
mess.
7. Poison Ivy
How about draping artificial ivy around your dinner table,
doorways, or mantle piece? Not only does this add greenery to your space during
this fun holiday, it will also create a fun and poisonous look for your home.
8. Creepy Halloween
Mirror
This one is a fantastic DIY tip to create a creepy home. Buy
an old mirror from a garage sale or take a look in your own basement for an old
creepy looking mirror that nobody uses. Find an old photograph or a printout of
a scary face that is about the same size as your own. Purchase some steel wool,
some transparent tape, some acetone, and find some paper towels. You will also
probably need gloves, a screwdriver, and a cloth. With the steel wool, make the
mirror look aged by scratching it. Take care not to strip off all the material.
Fix the photo behind the glass, and you will have an eerie wall piece to scare
all your indoor guests.
9. Spider Web
Doorways
Either use cotton wool or a specially made spider web gun to
create spooky spider webs in your doorways. You can even spruce up your webs
with some realistic-looking plastic creepy crawlies. Just make sure that you
and your guests can still get through the door and that you do not create a
fire hazard!
10. Hold “Dark Dinner
Night”
Nothing says creepy better than eating in the dark… Cover
your windows with dark sheets and provide each of your dinner guests with a
candle and a blindfold as they walk in. As your guests make their way to their
seats with candles in hand, explain that you will serve them shortly, but that
before you do, they must help their neighbour put a blindfold on so that
everyone in the room is drenched in darkness for the entire evening. Make your
guests food with interesting and unusual textures. You will give your guests a
unique dining experience and make Halloween super memorable for them!
Have a spooky ghoulish Halloween!
Ross is known as the Pambansang Blogger ng Pilipinas - An Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Professional by profession and a Social Media Evangelist by heart.
