1 halloween

LIGHTING IDEAS
Start by changing your regular lighting. Pick up some colored light bulbs and replace all your standard white ones. Red, blue, and green works well.
black light

Black Lights:

Black lights make decorations, props and costumes that have glow-in-the-dark properties light up in a purplish glow in the dark. Decorate with "glow in the dark" paint. The black lights get very hot so be sure to place them well out of reach of people and anything flammable.
bush with lights

Bushes & Trees:

Here's a party decorating trick that's so simple, it's scary. Buy strings of miniature orange lights in a party or a crafts store, then twine them around the branches of your bush or tree. If you want more control over light placement, use florist's wire to unobtrusively attach the lights to the branches.

Candle Lights:

Soft flickering lights that give the appearance of a candle flame are available at hardware stores. Replace regular light bulbs in your lamps with flickering light bulbs. They are especially suited for wall lamps but look good anywhere.		 candle
dimmer

Dimmer Switch:

Any room becomes a spooky room when the lights are turned down. Simply For a real scary effect use colored light bulbs such as blue or green.

Glow Sticks:

Tie small glow sticks to string attached to helium balloons and let them sail over your house for spooky lights in the sky. Make sure to tie off the strings to something solid so they don't get away!
glow lights

Jack-O-Lantern:

An inexpensive decoration for the front or back door. It's easy and takes only minutes to make. I used a inexpensive plastic pumpkin like the type used for Trick-O-Treating. I left the strap on it and than removed a section from the back (Photo). I than slipped the strap over the existing outdoor light.		 ghosts ghosts
house

Orange Christmas Lights:

This home was decorated with orange lights that are like the white lights that many people use on Christmas. This person seems to have covered the whole house. To much?, I think not.

Projector:

Use a projector or flashlight to beam bat shadows up on walls or outdoors on the side of the house. Cut out black bat shapes from construction paper. 		spotlight
eyes

Scary Eyes:

Use regular Christmas lights. Place them in bushes or trees near your house, set them up so that there are two lights together a few inches apart. The effect is to seem like eyes are looking at you from inside the bushes.

Spot Lights:

This home really used spot lights creatively to light up the props. They have red spots aimed at the roof spiders, a green spot lights up the cemetery on the right, and a orange spot is shinning on Dracula. Inside they have made a home-made dungeon in the garage		 Spot Lights
string lights

String lights:

Many stores now sell strings of decorative lights with plastic figures of pumpkins or ghosts and other scary things. Place these around your party area inside. Place around the outside of the house to illuminate passage ways for quests. Or around patios.
string of lights

Street lights:

The street light was made by placing a plastic Jack-O-Lantern over a front yard light. This is made much like the porch light above but instead of removing the back you remove the bottom and slip it over the light. Be certain that you use a low wattage bulb and that the bulb does not heat up the plastic Jack-O-Lantern. 		street lights