Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Light It Up!

Trick-or-Treaters will be at our doors before we know it. Is the path to your front door properly lit? Here are some fun ideas for spooky and functional lighting this Halloween: 


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Paper Luminaries. Get your kids involved and create some inexpensive paper bag luminaries. All you need is paper bags, stencils/imagination, candles, and a little time. Click here for a how-to from Martha Stewart.




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Milk Jug Luminaries. Empty milk jug, draw a ghost face on the jug with a black permanent marker, cut hole in the bottom, add white lights - leave enough lights out so you can string some in the next jug.





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Pumpkins, Pumpkins Everywhere! Add pumpkins to your porch, along the driveway, in the yard, and more! Turn your front yard into your own spooky pumpkin patch.





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Get the Trees Involved

Add spooky lights to your trees using old nylons, water balloons, and glow sticks. Just fill the water balloon, insert into nylon, add glow stick (don't activate yet) and hang from tree. On Halloween, go out and activate the glow stick. Click here to learn more.

  
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OR  String lights on your trees to give them a spooky, but inviting effect with purple, orange, or green light.


  
No matter how you light your home this Halloween, one of the simplest ways to let Trick-or-Treaters know you are home is to turn on your porch light. The general rule is that if the light is out, the house is skipped.