There is no holiday that is quite as fun as Halloween. With all of the yard decorations available nowadays you can have the scariest lawn in the neighborhood and you don't have to spend a lot of money. Kids of all ages, including adults, love Halloween. Why not add to their enjoyment by decorating your lawn? You can scare children and get chuckles from adults. Are you ready for Halloween? It doesn't take a lot of time to get your lawn crafted with homemade or store bought Halloween decorations.

Choose a Theme and Run with It

Instead of throwing a bunch of Halloween decorations up haphazardly, you will get more attention from adults and children if you have a theme. Some favorite themes include graveyards and crime scenes. The number of themes only stops with your imagination. Try a haunted house theme by having any number of scary creatures in your yard. A haunted house can have ghosts, black cats and even skeletons as part of the decorations.

When you think of a haunted house, what comes to mind? Everyone thinks of ghosts, but scarecrows, black cats and a little cemetery can help your haunted house. Since many haunted houses are empty, you can put a giant spider web across the door and add mama and baby spiders to the web. Put black construction paper over the windows to limit the amount of light that shines through. You can even add scary cutouts that you would associate with a haunted house.

An all-time favorite theme is the haunted cemetery. This is easily pulled off by cutting Styrofoam to look like a tombstone. Remember to paint it a color that you would find in a real cemetery. A lot of making your cemetery realistic is in spacing your tombstones. Put them every 5 to 6 feet apart. This will make it seem as if they are real. If you have lots of dead leaves in your yard, heap them up to make it look as if there is a full size body in the ground. Get skeleton parts and have them sticking out of the ground. A bony hand emerging from the ground at one of your grave sites will give it the appearance that something is coming out of the ground to terrorize the night. Ghosts in the trees will also fit in very well with your cemetery.

Since you can now buy yellow crime scene tape that looks very much like real crime scene tape you can really turn your yard into a crime scene. You can pile leaves on the ground and make it look as if something is buried underneath by placing a skeleton under the leaves and allowing parts of the skeleton to show through the leaves. Mark off the walkway to your front door by zig zagging the tape for the kids to walk through. Make sure they get to walk past your crime scene.

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