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Discount Halloween Decorations Available Already!

Lillian — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:19:25 +0000

You wouldn’t think with Halloween being a month away the discount Halloween decorations would be available yet. Of course, the closer to Halloween it gets, the lower the prices go because the stores know most people have already bought their decorations. Well, that and they’re already out of the good stuff and trying to less the boring decorations off cheap.

Fortunately, this year is a good one for discount Halloween decorations. Spirit Halloween has a number of good items on sale and I know they’ll be putting more on sale the closer Halloween gets.

And if the sales aren’t cheap enough for you, I’ve got a SpiritHalloween.com coupon for you to. Just click below to use the coupon and enter SPAF20 at checkout. It says “costumes,” but it works for decorations, too. I tested it.

Some of the best Halloween decoration items on sale right now are:

Animated Lifesize Witch with Fogging Cauldron
This green-complexioned witch cackles as stirs the steaming cauldron at her feet. Set this out in your yard with a few ravens and rats for a scary witch scene. She’s on sale for $224. I recommend the “witches’ ingredients bottles” also found at spirithalloween.com

Airblown Inflatable Cemetery Gate
Creating a cemetery scene in your yard? Don’t miss this cemetery archway made of (plastic) crumbling stone. A floating grim reaper stands guard on one site. Set up and installation are super simple because all you need to do is inflate it. This is also good to place over your front door to spook the trick-or-treaters. Similar items go for $99, but this one’s on sale for $79.

Ultrasonic Mist Maker
If you don’t already have a mist- or fog-maker for indoor use (like in the punch bowl), here’s your change to pick one up cheap. This easy-to-use mist maker is has been discounted by 20% and is now $20. It’s got some pretty good reviews, too.

To find more discounted items at SpiritHalloween, look in the list of links on the left side of the site. You’ll see a link that says “sale.” That’s where you’ll find all the cheap Halloween decorations.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of discount Halloween decorations there. Previously discounted items get sold out and new ones go on sale, so it’s worth taking a look right up to a few weeks before Halloween.

Halloween Pumpkin Decorations

Lillian — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:44:24 +0000

Few things symbolize Halloween better than Halloween pumpkin decorations. As a décor motif, the pumpkin works well in both kid’s and adult’s party decorations. Because it’s more of a harvest/autumn item than strictly a Halloween thing, you can also leave pumpkin decorations up a little longer than you would the ghosts and vampires.

Scary Jack-o-lantern Decorations

Your average pumpkin isn’t particularly scary until you put a face on it at which point, of course, it becomes a Jack-o-lantern. If you’re not up to carving your own this year, look for a plastic battery operated model with a sinister grin and glowing red eyes. Some also produce sound effects or make comments when a motion sensor is triggered. Place one of these Halloween pumpkin decorations on your porch, in a window or hanging up in some other visible spot.

Halloween Pumpkin Lights

Jack-o-lanterns aren’t the only pumpkins that give off that eerie glow. Frame your windows or door with strings of pumpkin mini lights. Dress up your porch light with a pumpkin porch light cover. Another way to help guests make it to your door is set up some pumpkin driveway markers (electric lights you stick in the ground) or pumpkin tiki torches.

Indoors, get a pumpkin nightlight for your kid’s room or to light the way to the bathroom. Glowing pumpkin window decorations, which you stick on the window, are another simple decoration.

Pumpkin Tableware

Halloween pumpkin decorations for the table come in just about every type you can think of. Cover your refreshments table with a pumpkin patterned tablecloth. The pumpkin’s round shape also makes it ideal for plates and serving bowls. If you’ll be serving cocktails, pick up some pumpkin coasters and drink stirrers.

Dining by candle light? Ceramic pumpkin candle holders come in both cute and spooky versions. For something a little earthier, carve out some mini-pumpkins and turn them into candle holders.

Smiling Pumpkins and Friendly Jack-o-lanterns

Ceramic and terra cotta pumpkin, pumpkin pie scented candles, and carved wooden garlands make attractive Halloween home décor. Pumpkin piñatas, windsocks, window clings, stuffed toy pumpkins are great for kids’ parties. Pumpkins in costume also make good light-hearted decorations.

Put a pumpkin in a witch’s hat or stick a set of construction paper vampire teeth on it. Pumpkin painting is another popular way of dressing up a pumpkin without carving it. If you like carving, but don’t like the mess, try a Funkin Pumpkin. These are carvable foam pumpkins that come in several different shapes. These Halloween pumpkin decorations are fine outdoors, but you can’t use a candle inside them.

Unique Outdoor Halloween Lights

Lillian — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:02:13 +0000

Outdoor Halloween lights improve visibility around walkways and doors without detracting from your other decorations. These outdoor lights typically come in strings of mini-lights covered with plastic covers shaped like ghosts, pumpkins, skulls or other Halloween symbols. Of course, those are what all the neighbors have, too. If you’re looking for something a little more unique, read on.

Light, Sound, and More

If you’re on a budget, one cheap way to get interesting outdoor Halloween lights is to go with the typical string of mini lights, but look for a set in an unusual style. Some play blink, play music or talk. Look for more elaborate shapes like skeletons or spiders or a variety of light shapes like alternating skulls and headstones. Fabric ghost lights and Halloween icicle lights are other unique options. If you want something a little mellower than the average bright mini lights, look for LED Halloween lights.

Path lighting and Driveway Markers

Use electric or solar Halloween outdoor lighting to mark your driveway or the path to your door. If you’re planning a party or expecting trick-or-treaters, this is especially important. It’s all too easy to stumble on a poorly lit path, especially when you’re wearing a costume and looking at yard decorations.

Orange jack-o-lanterns, skeleton or monster hands, skulls in a variety of colors, and witches’ hats are all popular styles for path and driveway lighting. For something a little different, try floating ghost lights. These are white plastic ghost lights on top of a black rod you stick in the ground. At night, the black rod isn’t visible and the ghosts seem to float in mid air.

Light-up Decorations

Light up decorations won’t do much to improve visibility outside your home, but they’re still a lot of fun. Porch light covers are one of the easiest outdoor Halloween lights to install. Just hang the cover over your existing porch light.

If you don’t have a porch light, set a “haunted lantern” by your door. These battery operated decorations make spooky noises when the motion sensor is triggered. You can also find hanging outdoor Halloween props equipped with lights. These are typically white figures like ghosts, mummies, and zombies. And of course, Halloween pumpkin lights never go out of style.

Halloween Party Decorations for Your Bathroom

Lillian — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:01:43 +0000

The bathroom may not be the first place you think to put up Halloween party decorations, but if your guests will be staying more than an hour or so, it’s worth extending your party décor theme to a room at least someone is sure to visit. The first step is to replace that bright but boring bathroom light with a black light or light in some other funky color. Which other Halloween party decorations you choose depends on how much you want to unnerve your guests.

The Creepy Bathtub or Shower

Setting up a scene from Bates Motel is the most obvious idea, of course. Gruesome as it is, though, it’s not very unique. For something different, try putting a weird aquatic creature prop in a tub half full of green colored water (a green light overhead will do). A shower stall filled with spider webs and inhabited by a giant spider is also fairly nightmarish.

The Haunted Mirror

When you’re in the right mind set, even a normal mirror can be a little spooky. Under the influence of enough ghost stories, you half expect to see something emerge from the depths of the mirror. The easiest and cheapest way is to haunt your bathroom mirror is to stick a ghost window cling to the glass. You can buy a cheap mirror and etch a ghostly image into the back. If you really want something special, Halloween party decorations like ghost mirrors can either replace your mirror or be hung on in a highly visible spot.

Quick screams

Want to really startle your guests? Set up a noise-making prop with a motion sensor that’s triggered by the opening door. If you’re bathroom’s totally dark (or you can make it that way) stand a large prop right next to the first thing your guest sees when they flick on the light is that “thing” towering over them. Alternatively, if your bathroom has a window, set up a prop on the outside looking in so it looks like a creepy peeping tom. An eerie ghost hanging over the sink or commode can also be unnerving.

Halloween Skeleton Decorations

Lillian — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:28:18 +0000

Ordinary Halloween skeleton decorations are easy to find, but it’s what you do with your skelly that makes it unique. Of course, it doesn’t take a whole lot of work to make a skeleton look scary. After all, even in “normal” settings such as anatomy classrooms, full size skeletons still look creepy. Here are a few easy ways make dem bones look even creepier.

Enhance Your Skeleton

Few Halloween skeleton decorations are impressive right out of the box. That’s not such a bad thing because half the fun of using skeleton décor is seeing how gruesome you can make it look. Turn your skeleton into a corpse by coat the bones in latex, stretch a gauzy cotton material like cheese cloth over the sticky bones. When dry, paint and corpsify to as you like.

Animated Halloween Skeleton Decorations

Part of the reason human skeletons give us the creeps is that somewhere in the back of our minds, we’re afraid the thing is going to come to live. Play into that fear with a motorized, motion-sensor activated skeleton that rattles and shivers when someone walks by. Extras like flashing and jangling chains add to the effect. The most basic animated skeleton props start at around $50, but you can find torsos, arms and skulls for less.

Set a Scene

A skeleton is a lot scarier when you let your guests’ imaginations work on what made that skeleton in the first place. Instead of leaving your skelly lying around by himself, create the scene of his demise. Cover a large area with spider webs and place a giant spider inside. Lay the skeletal remains of one of the spider’s recent victims, wrapped in webs or not, beneath him. Create a prison scene complete with rats and chains. Dress your skeleton in striped prisoner garb and ankle shackles. Put your skeleton in pirate hat and stick a plastic cutlass through his ribs.

If you’ve got a graveyard scene in your yard, include some “ground breaking” Halloween skeleton decorations. These are the upper body and hands (sometimes other parts) of the skeleton designed to look like the undead is digging out from the grave.

Halloween Ghost Decorations

Lillian — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:27:12 +0000

Halloween ghost decorations come in perhaps the widest variety of all Halloween party decorations. The ghost décor out there today ranges from Casper and his friendly smile to realistic looking phantasms your guests won’t even want to approach. Here are a few ghost decoration ideas you may not have thought of yet. I’ll try to resist calling them spook-tacular.

Truly Scary Halloween Ghost Decorations

A decent ghost decoration isn’t that hard to manufacture, so even the moderately priced props can look disturbingly realistic. These are typically the models with a carefully detailed face that looks properly undead. Hang one of these ghosts in a corner of the ceiling in the bathroom or hallway, where your guests will least expect it.

String up some white ghost lights (a string of holiday lights in ghostly shapes) or a banner of paper gut-out ghosts. Light your living room with a ghost lamp that glows an eerie purple, green, or pure white.

Friendly Ghosts

Whether your party is for kids or adults, a few Casper-style friendly ghosts lighten the mood a little. Cute inflatable Halloween ghost decorations are cheap and easy to hang. Ghosts decorations are also some of the easiest to make yourself. Make little ghosts by wrapping gauzy material around lollipops and securing the “neck” with ribbon. Create large outdoor ghosts large white trash bags by stuffing one corner with newspaper, tying the neck with string or ribbon, and if you want, drawing on a face.

Deaden up your refreshments table with a ghost serving bowl, ghost-printed plates and napkins, and other Halloween party tableware.

Haunted Objects

Haunted Halloween party decorations change and move seemingly all by themselves. In reality, of course, they move when the internal mechanisms are set off by a motion detector or timer. When set up just right, few things scare guests more than a seemingly normal object that starts moving and talking like a thing possessed. Take the “haunted radio” for example described at the ScaryGuys.com Website.

For a simpler haunted item, try a changing portrait that shifts from a normal face to gruesome apparition depending on your angle. That added haunted atmosphere will make your Halloween ghost decorations that much scarier.

Halloween Witch Decorations

Lillian — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:44:11 +0000

You can use Halloween witch decorations to create a witches’ ball or coven meeting theme or just add a little human touch to all those vampires and ghosts. If you’re expecting nothing more than the plain old pint-sized standing or hanging witch dolls, though, you’re in for a surprise with today’s variety of witch décor.

Indoor Halloween witch decorations

If you’re working with a witch theme for your Halloween party, a good quality life-sized witch prop will do a lot. A simple standing or hanging witch prop, without sound or animation, can be for less than $50. If you really want to go all out, look for an animated talking witch prop.

Cheaper models go for less than $100, moderate high quality ones for around $250 and professional haunted house props can easily top $1000. In addition to life-sized models, witch dolls, posters, window clings and other Halloween witch decorations range in style from the friendly good witch variety to the scary Blair witch type.

Witch accessories

Besides the witches themselves, add some Halloween witch decorations to help your witches feel at home. Pointy black witches’ hats, flowing capes, witch shoes with curling toes and of course, brooms.

A few books of witches’ spells, tarot cards, crystal balls and other magical objects will help you witches get some work done, too. In addition to the traditional ravens and black cats, fill your house with other spooky animals like bats, owls, spiders, snakes, and lizards.

Lighten the mood a little with a crashing witch decoration (a flattened “crashed” witch you mount on your wall so only her back is visible). Use serving wear shaped like cauldrons and goblin hands and ornate goblets to serve your witch’s brew.

Outdoor Halloween witch decorations and scenes

Use heavy cardboard (or plywood, if you’re handy with a saw) to cut out the silhouette of a hunched over witch. Place her in front of a fogging cauldron. Add a few of her familiars, like black cats and ravens. Set up a fog machine and replace your porch light with a green light to add to the eerie atmosphere.

Put out a few extra cauldrons, possibly with a ghouls or goblins peeking over the edges. Give your garden witch a sister and hang her, mounted on her broom stick, from a nearby tree. Before you buy Halloween witch decorations for your yard, though, make sure they’re made for outdoor use.

Where to Buy Halloween Party Decorations

Lillian — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:28:23 +0000

Thank you for stopping by! We should have our store set up in just a few days now. In the meantime, why not browse through some of our articles to collect some more Halloween party decoration ideas or visit one of the stores listed below.