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Even if you’re not having a Halloween party, dress up your home with ghoulish decorations to get into the season’s spirit! Try some inexpensive and easy ways to make your yard, porch or house look positively spooky.

All it takes is a little imagination and effort and a few items to transform your space into something Halloweeny. Load up at the craft store, then let your imagination run wild. Kids can help with decking the halls, too.

Remember the three Gs–glow sticks, glue and glitter! Glow sticks can decorate almost any surface. Just break them open and use the glowing liquid–it’s non-toxic–no, really

Don’t want to carve your pumpkins? You can just embellish them–no knife needed. Use the glow stick liquid to paint your pumpkin. Using a brush, paint a face, outline the ridges, or create your own design.

Use glue (the spray-on adhesive works great) to make your pumpkins sparkle. Then use black or iridescent glitter or sparkly “fairy dust” to cover the pumpkin’s surface, Shake off the extra glitter onto newspapers.

Fill a mason jar with about 1/2 of a stick of the glowing goo, add some glitter and fill it with water. The water actually keeps it glowing longer. If you want to go all out, spray the jars’ caps matte black. A few of these leading up to your doorstep will mark the way for trick-or-treaters.

You can also use glow sticks to light up balloons.Use plain white balloons, then snap the small thin glow stick (about the size of a drinking straw)  and place then in the balloon before you blow then up. Tie them off and use a permanent marker to paint ghostly faces on the balloons!

Don’t be a Halloween “scrooge”! Spruce you your place with some easy Halloween decorations.

Join us this weekend at Thrillvania Haunted House Park  at 2330 County Rd 138, Terrell, Tx 75161 to see really scary decorations!!

This will definitely be the coolest way to hand out candy at Halloween.  Don’t bother looking any further.  The cauldron of candy is so last year.  A punch bowl?  Boring.  And please don’t tell me you were actually considering simply grabbing a couple of pieces straight out of the bag and handing them to each trick-or-treater who knocks at your door!  This is Halloween.  Have some fun!

For this awesome grab bag you’ll need orange balloons, some candy, a black sharpie, and (if you’re feeling really festive) green party fringe and some glue.  Take a few pieces of candy and stick them through the opening of the balloon, then blow it up like normal and tie it off.  Already, you have an awesome candy-filled balloon.  But don’t stop there!

Use your sharpie to draw spooky or ridiculous faces on the front of the balloon, just like a jack-o-lantern.  If you’re feeling really festive, or you have a whole lot of time on your hands, glue the green party fringe around the balloon’s knot and it will look even more like a pumpkin.

Now you have some absolutely amazing, candy-filled balloon pumpkins to wow your guests.  They’re also perfect for a kid’s party (or adults!) where you can lay out all the pumpkins in a “pumpkin patch” and let each child pick his or her favorite.

While The Wizard of Oz” may not be an official “Halloween” movie, it’s plenty scary (at least for the kiddos) all the same. Who isn’t afraid of evil flying monkeys?! And the Wicked Witch was so scary that children were not allowed to see it in some parts of the country.

Voted the” Most Loved Movie of All Time”, the film was not a box-office flop when it was first released, as some have said. It’s been popular since it was released way back in 1939. This film’s 75th anniversary was this year!

Here are nine fun facts that you may not know about “The Wizard of Oz”!

1) If you start the movie at the third roar of the MGM lion, and you begin playing “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd, the music synchs up amazingly well. Of course you have to turn the movie’s sound off. It matches up so eerily that David Gilmour from Pink Floyd has been asked if he created the album with ‘Wizard of Oz ‘ in mind. He denies it. But try it yourself!

2) The Tin Man was originally cast as Buddy Ebsen (famous for his role as Jed Clampett in the Beverly Hillbillies) but he had to be recast because he was horribly allergic to the silver paint that the Tin Man wore.

3) Terry, the dog that played Toto was actually a girl, and was paid $125 per week. 

4) Many of the flying monkeys were injured on set because the piano wire holding them afloat broke.

5) The tears that the Tin Man cried were chocolate syrup!

6) The green horses at the Wizard’s castle were dyed with green Jell-O powder. The scene had to filmed quickly because the horses licked it off.

7) In the book, “Wicked”, you learn that the Wicked Witch of the West wasn’t really so bad, she had a broken heart. Glinda was the one who caused her misery, which is why she and the Good Witch were such archenemies. The Wicked Witch’s name is  Elphaba.

8) The Cowardly Lion’s costume was made of real lion pelts.

9) Shirley Temple was considered for the role of Dorothy before Judy Garland was cast.

Join us this weekend at Thrillvania Haunted House Park  at 2330 County Rd 138, Terrell, Tx 75161  for scary sights and more!