| LIGHTING IDEAS |
| Start by changing your regular lighting. Pick up some colored light bulbs and replace the white ones. Red, blue, and green works well. |
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 room
with "glow in the dark" paint. Black lights get very hot! |
Bushes & Trees:
Here's a party decorating trick that's simple, and scary. Buy strings of
miniature orange lights in a party store, then twine them around the
branches of a bush or tree. 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. |
Dimmer Switch:
Any room becomes a spooky room when the lights are turned down. 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! |
 
Jack-O-Lantern:
An inexpensive decoration for the door. It's easy and takes only minutes
to make. I used a cheap plastic pumpkin like those used for Trick-O-Treating.
I left the strap on it and removed a section from the back. Slipe
the strap over the outdoor light. |
Orange Christmas Lights:
This home was decorated with orange lights that are like the white
lights used 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. |
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 creatively used spot lights to light up props. They have
red spots aimed at the roof spiders, a green spot light for the cemetery,
and a orange spot is shinning on Dracula. |
String lights:
Many stores sell strings of decorative lights with plastic figures
of pumpkins or ghosts. Place these around your party area inside.
Place around the outside of the house to illuminate passage ways for
your quests. |
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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. Back |
