If you are like my kids, friends and neighbors, decorating for Halloween becomes an obsession in October and “haunting” the stores for scary decor is consuming all of our energy. We love to decorate the front porch for the impressive visual impact. Instead of going overboard with a monumental effort, I think the most fun is making scary, simple and easy, with a minimum of expense and time, but with the peak of extreme fright and creativity. With markers, scissors, black yarn, cheesecloth, some old milk jugs, black paper, spray paint (my favorite DIY tool), a witch hat or two, a pumpkin and a few items from your favorite craft store, you can transform your porch quickly to welcome all the creatures of the night to gather on your steps for spooky October celebrations. Always take the chance to crowd the family around the dining room table or in the garage which is my favorite crafting spot as it is overflowing with a graveyard of home detritus! Halloween is the perfect time to laugh, draw, carve, paint and create your ultimate scary “Little Porch of Halloween Horrors.” In the movie, “Little Shop of Horrors,” Audrey II, the ever growing monster plant, screams, “Feed me, feed me”! Your porch, this All Hallows Eve, will be shrieking all through the night. Flip through this gallery of Halloween porch ideas. I know you will find an inspiration that you and your kids can remake or magnify for your special Halloween haunted home.
Beware this time of year if you hear an eerie swooshing sound, feel a sharp prickly touch or see a faint billowy shadow trailing you.
Happy Halloween!