Party décor is very important to set the right mood, especially on Halloween. You can use a variety of ghoulish ideas for the venue décor of your Halloween party. Some of the ideas have been used repeatedly by scores of people and yet, have not lost the eerie charm and still manage to dig out the deep-rooted fear we have of spooky places and settings, right from our childhood. The article suggests some ways to make interesting decorations for this Halloween in your backyard, at home, or whatever venue you choose for you spine-chilling Halloween party:

Spooky Decoration Ideas For Halloween

* Attach a plastic owl, bat or crow to the top of one of the entrances, set as if it is watching the party celebrations.
* Fake pumpkins and vines can be used to make a small pumpkin patch in the center of your Halloween party venue, with a huge scary Jack-o-Lantern in-between.
* Your party venue will look great when illuminated by outdoor blue-colored flood lights that are hidden somewhere. If you have a space for pumpkin patch, you can use small orange colored flood lights to illuminate that part.
* Hide an audio player in a tree or someplace, from where it is not directly visible, for sound effects such as howling wind, hooting of an owl, sounds of crickets, thundering sounds, crying baby, sobbing woman and other such effects that repeat again and again.
* If you are organizing the party in a large area, you may even put up the gothic entrance way, fence columns, wrought-iron fence, some moss around the base of the fence, and artificial ivy garlands, to make it look like a graveyard, and even fake cobwebs to cover large part of the fence.
* Lightning generators with timed sound effects can make your Halloween venue look theatric.
* For giving the graveyard look to the venue, just make 6 to 8 inch high burial mounds for some of the fresh graves at the backyard of your home or other venue, and scatter old leaves and twigs around them, to make it look as if the venue is haunted and unattended.
* Use realistic-looking tombstones, complete with epitaphs and designs and attach some of them at certain angles, to give a realistic look to your spooky venue. You may even sprinkle some fine dust on them and add moss around their bottoms or even at the top of a few of them. You can attach cobwebs to some of the tombstones.
* You can use small fog machines for creating fog on the ground, with automatic timers. Get an even larger one for the mist in the air. Hide them behind the tombstones or some trees in your venue.

Epitaphs & Decorative Designs
A painted tombstone for your Halloween graveyard will only look realistic and authentic when you imprint epitaphs and decorative designs on it, just like the real ones. You can just paint tombstones using acrylic craft paint and a brush, to have a simple flat effect.

Halloween Effects
Halloween party is incomplete without scary effects. In fact, effects are indispensable to complete the look of a spooky Halloween setting and set the Halloween party on fire. Tombstones and other Halloween monuments may scare very young children

Halloween Props
Smart and creative use of Halloween props can give your Halloween party the perfect setting - spooky and spine chilling. Skeletons, skulls, bones and fake gory body parts make for some simply great Halloween props and decorations. Then, there are other options, like a fake skeleton gracing the entrance of your house.

Homemade Tombstones
Tombstones can really make your backyard look scary. They serve as powerful instruments, when it comes to creating something like a ‘House of Horrors’ for Halloween. For giving a graveyard setting to your party venue, tombstones are the perfect Halloween prop.

Placing Tombstones
It is important how you place the tombstones on Halloween while decorating the venue for a genuine appearance and to keep them from toppling over. Securing tombstones in a fake, but convincing Halloween graveyard is an art that determines whether your guests will get the ultimate Halloween fright at your party

Halloween Lights
Lights can be used very creatively to enhance the impact of your Halloween decorations. For a night party, they can play a major role in giving a ghoulish look to your venue. You can simply use a variety of lights to illuminate your home and the outside area to welcome the visitors in the Halloween way.