Creating a Halloween Garden

Halloween is the time of year for everybody to enjoy some spooky fun. Ghosts, goblins and ghouls will flock to your door for trick or treating. Add to their Halloween thrills by turning your garden into a haunted Halloween location, by creating a ghostly atmosphere – this also sets the tone for a Halloween party if you’re holding one.

Paths and Walkways - if you have a path or walkway with shrubs growing along it, decorate them with ghost, skull and vampire lights. These can be purchased in novelty stores and garden centres. Look out for the ones that glow in the dark ...
Lighting - provide lots of spooky lighting. Purchase strings of Halloween lights and string them from trees and around your door frame. Turn off big hall lights or security lights for this one night to give a gloomy impression. Candles give a suitably flickering light, but the glow-sticks that you break to give six or eight hours of light are even more eerie and unnatural.
Creepy Hand - create a creepy hand and place it on your front step, or even on a table just inside the door so people see it as you open the door: very scary! You need a latex glove, carefully stuffed with cotton wool to look lifelike, a set of artificial nails and some glow in the dark paint, as well as some fake blood. Glue the false nails to the hand, then paint it all except the nails with the paint, put the hand on a tray, spill blood around the wrist end so it looks decapitated and display.

Creating a Halloween Garden

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