These days you have some incredible choices for Halloween Yard Decorations. No need for any of those tacky flat headstones and a few hanging ghosts, with the variety of Halloween products on the market today; you can have a real Spookfest right in your front yard.Whether you just want to add some fright to your yard for Halloween, or you are looking to run a home haunt this year, yard decorations are a must. Especially if you are putting on your own haunted house. Though you can purchase many of the Halloween yard decorations that you need, there are also a lot you can make yourself.
For the home haunter, the Halloween yard decorations that you choose should blend well with your overall theme. If your theme is a haunted house, you’ll want the old cemetery, maybe some zombies, eyes in the bushes, etc.
On the other hand, if you are just looking to jazz things up for the trick-or-treaters, a couple of inflatable decorations, and some witches may be sufficient.
In my opinion, one of the main focal points of the Halloween yard decoration should be the graveyard. This is usually one of the first things we start on every year. The headstones can be created from foam board found at hardware stores, or you can buy your graveyard headstones from a variety of stores that sale Halloween props.
Every spooky graveyard needs a fence, these are also available for purchase from Halloween stores, or you can make your own out of PVC pipe.
Though it’s not necessary, adding a crypt to your graveyard can really give it an eerie quality, especially if you can include a crank ghost, and other special effects that will be seen from outside the graveyard.
Other little additions that can add to the spook factor of your graveyard include, crows, maybe an undertaker prop, zombies, ghosts, and whatever adds to the eerie atmosphere you are trying to create. You probably don’t want to overcrowd your graveyard with props and decorations, as they will ruin the atmosphere, but add enough that the scene is helping to add to the storyline for your haunted house. A fog machine and a fog chiller, hidden strategically within the graveyard can really set off this scene. Ground fog just seems to add that creepy element to cemeteries, and it works for home haunt graveyards too.
If you are talented enough to build an old Victorian style hearse, this would be a great addition to your Halloween yard decorations, but if not, I did notice an inflatable hearse being sold last Halloween.
For the Halloween home haunt, the next important Halloween yard decoration would probably be the façade to your haunted house. This is one of the most neglected elements of home haunts, but it adds so much to atmosphere that if you can make one, I would advise it.
As your Halloween yard decorations are the first things that trick-or-treaters and visitors to your haunted house will see, you’ll want to be sure that they convey the spook element you want to create.
