10 Hauntingly Beautiful Halloween Decorations for Your Yard
I love Halloween! I love the skeletons, I love the zombies, I love the vampires. I love decorating. I love the crunch of the leaves as I walk down the sidewalk. I love the scent of the air, the fires, the leaves, the crispness. I.LOVE.IT.ALL!
I especially love scrolling through Pinterest to find new and scary decorations to make for my yard. Even though I live up a tiny holler in East Tennessee, I decorate as much as I can. Yes, sometimes its cheesy. Sometimes scary, sometimes ghouly. This year I am going with ghostly. I plan to do packing tape ghosts and any others that I deem ghostly enough. I am gathering 10 examples of my favorite ghostly, goulish, hauntingly beautiful ghosts.
1. Packing Tape Ghosts
Packing tape ghosts are my favorite by far. They are hauntingly beautiful when lit with LED lights at night but retain that quality in the daytime.
The transparency is perfect.
2. Chicken Wire Ghosts
Equally as ethereal are chicken wire ghosts.
These look beautiful in the daytime floating around your yard.
When painted with glow-in-the-dark paint or spotlighted with a blacklight, they glow eerily in your yard at night. While chicken wire ghosts take a bit more trial and error and careful consideration of sharp edges, the result is well worth the effort.
3. Cheesecloth Ghosts
I found this post on cheesecloth spirits right here. She begins by showing us Martha's version:
10. Ghost Costumes
What better way to haunt your yard than with a real, moving, interactive ghost?
I especially love scrolling through Pinterest to find new and scary decorations to make for my yard. Even though I live up a tiny holler in East Tennessee, I decorate as much as I can. Yes, sometimes its cheesy. Sometimes scary, sometimes ghouly. This year I am going with ghostly. I plan to do packing tape ghosts and any others that I deem ghostly enough. I am gathering 10 examples of my favorite ghostly, goulish, hauntingly beautiful ghosts.
1. Packing Tape Ghosts
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They are light and easy to hang or stand. Packing tape ghosts are easy to make and fun for kids to help with. Let your imagination run wild!2. Chicken Wire Ghosts
Equally as ethereal are chicken wire ghosts.
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These look beautiful in the daytime floating around your yard.
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3. Cheesecloth Ghosts
I found this post on cheesecloth spirits right here. She begins by showing us Martha's version:
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But continues with a beautiful tutorial of her own creations.
There are so many different versions using cheesecloth, you can do your own easily.
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Again these hang and float well and depending on which base you choose, can float around your yard easily. Cheesecloth ghosts very easily created while totally forgiving.
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The cheesecloth can be left to float and move in the wind and if using inside, can be starched into place permanently using liquid starch!
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I love these for hanging in trees to flow in the wind. I will have a few up the holler this year.
4. Tomato Cage Ghosts
Tomato cage ghosts are very simple and can be customized in many different ways.
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Using different fabrics such as white fabric, cheesecloth, silvery fabric, they let your imagination go free...
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Supplies are limited, a flower pot with dirt or gravel in the bottom, a tomato cage, lights(not required) fabric, and a black permanent marker. If you raise tomatoes, you probably already have some of these supplies!
5. Grim Ghosts
These grim ghosts are my current favorite for 2018. I love the size(gigantic), I love the color and I love the lantern! Find the DIY here!
6. Ghost Ring
Ghost rings are another highly creative ghost for your yard.
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Once you decide on a ghost, they are duplicated as many times as you wish.
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Join their hands around a prop (think fire, cauldron or other ghoulish item) to bring your childish group of poltergeists together for a Halloween celebration.
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By changing the covering you can change the entire mood of the grouping.
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Use tomato cages or stakes for a base. Coverings range from cheesecloth to plastic tablecloths to tulle.
7. Ghost Children
For me, ghostly children are the scariest.
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They come in many forms and sometimes, I just can't look!
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Each is made differently. Some are packing tape,
some are put together using wood and other hardware, some use dolls,
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and some are just as scary in the daytime
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as they are at night!
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8. Ghost Brides
There are a number of ghost bride stories...they are all romantically ghoulish.
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How about a ghost bride in your haunted yard, searching for her love endlessly into eternity?
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Use any of the methods already mentioned, dressing the base in a wedding gown (available at thrift stores, yard sales and flea markets),
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veil and bouquet. The possibilities are endless.
9. Goulish Ghosts
These beauties are all hauntingly beautiful and terrifyingly breathtaking. Most are simply made using variations of the previous methods and/or much more embellished. For your enjoyment:
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10. Ghost Costumes
What better way to haunt your yard than with a real, moving, interactive ghost?
Simple and eerie, sheet ghost.
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Let your child haunt the yard with you.
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Definitely ready to search for her love into eternity.
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Martha's version.
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A translation of Martha's version.
Haunt your yard this Halloween.
Y'all come back!
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