Oct 05 2009
Halloween Floral Decorations
Easy to make, spooky Halloween floral decorations that set the mood for trick-or-treaters!
Halloween is one of those holiday celebrations that have become firmly entrenched in American traditions. If you have kids, or enjoy visits from the trick-or-treating crowd, you want to prepare your home to attract kids of all ages … this means you’ve got to make the Halloween experience memorable, in a scary sort of way.
One inexpensive and spooky prop, to set the stage, is found in your judicious placement of Halloween floral decorations. When the kids are making the neighborhood rounds, they look for homes with enticingly scary decorations … those are the homes they want to approach, giggling and hanging on to each other, anticipating not just the treats, but the fullness of the Halloween experience. In any case, they leave with treats, but scaring them silly is all part of the fun. Easy, but carefully designed Halloween floral decorations, are your first step to entice children to brave the frightening path to your door. Here we’ve got a few ideas to make your door a magnet. Better have plenty of treats on hand!
The traditional colors of Halloween are black, orange, rust and bright yellow. Following this color scheme is key to the successful Halloween decoration campaign.
These ideas are suitable for either a porch railing or a simple entryway. Naturally, you’ll need at least a couple of Jack o’ Lanterns, carved out to shed some light and gain attention.
For a porch railing, you might want several medium sized Jack o’ Lanterns, set at two foot intervals. The light from the votive candles inside Jack serve to highlight your Halloween floral decorations, set at a safe distance from each Jack o’ Lantern.
One of the easiest of Halloween floral decorations can be made with plastic vases of fake flowers. However, using real flowers that you pick up at the supermarket can be used to great effect. Chrysanthemums, in the orange and rust shades, are in season and lend themselves naturally to a Halloween themed bouquet. Daisies are easily dyed by immersing them in a vase of water overnight, tinted with food coloring. You can even make black daisies, using a couple of drops each of red, blue and green food coloring. Use the same color formula to dye fronds of ferns. Mix and match!
Dried flowers, in Halloween colors, also make excellent and reusable floral decorations.
For an entryway, here’s a great Halloween floral decoration: submerge a wide vase, weighted down with marbles at the bottom of the vase, in a large punch bowl. Fill the vase with a bouquet of flowers in Halloween colors and surround the vase with floating candles in an orange-tinted punch bowl of plain water. Use a glue gun to fix a short length of string to the bottom of the candle, with a lead weight to hold the candle in place – you don’t want to set your flowers on fire!
Enhance your Halloween floral decorations with fluorescent ribbons, tying the bouquets, or rimming the punch bowl. Black streamers, strung along the porch or entryway and gilded with glitter serve to showcase your display. ‘Spiderwebs’ from a crafts store add to the spooky effect. Strings of Halloween lights work wonders in adding zest to your floral decorations.
Try suspending a few helium balloons above your Halloween floral decorations – use magic markers to add faces to these ghostly apparitions.
Now, your home is ready for the festivities! If you’re hosting a Halloween party, you can continue your outdoor theme indoors. The kids will love your Halloween spirit!
Girl Halloween Costumes
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