How to make SCARY decorations for Halloween?

Question

I don't mean scary cute...I mean actually scary.

Halloween is my favorite and our house is always the best in town but I feel there is alwasy room for improvement. I go searching for terrifying decorations all the time but I think the best are the ones that are homemade.

Does anybody have any really good SCARY decorations I can make?

Answer 1

Two of my favorite prop sites. These should keep you busy for a loooong time.

http://www.hauntproject.com/

http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/

Answer 2

Ok, (cracks hands)  First go to Menard's and get flat Styrofoam.  It's about 5 bucks a huge sheet.  Now use an Exact-o to cut graves stones that are a little smaller then life size.  Don't worry if your cutting is bad because you will spray paint them and the paint will eat away at the Styrofoam hiding all the mistakes and sharp edges.  

Use gray and green paint and use black for the RIP.  

5 bucks will get you about four or five graves stones if you cut them right.

NOW... how do you keep them in the ground you ask?  Here is the pure genius of it.  (thought this up my self)  Take shishcabob sticks and push them half way up the bottom of the tomestones.  Use about three Shishkabob sticks per headstone.  Left side, Middle, Right side.

Now push them into the ground and your head stones will NEVER blow away.  Trust me, I did this on a windy year in Minnesota and NOTHING could move them.

OK your graveyard is complete.  Now you need lighting.  Take three reading lamps and put different color lights in them. usually red and green work good.  Hook all three lights up to a power strip and place the lamps so that the light shines on the grave stones giving them an eerie light.  Try to hide the lights from obvious view by putting them behind other stuff so people don't see the lights just the eerie glow.

Well, that should get you started.

Cost 5-10 dollars for paint and supplies   (:  

Answer 3

I got a bunch of cast material from the dr and made a HUGE mummy, I also built a coffin out of plywood and someone would lay down in it and jump out and scare people as they walked by. LOL that was alot of fun!

NOW my mummy was very heavy so make sure you put it together where ever or close to where you want it to be

Answer 4

Go to a butchery and see if you can get any parts of a cow carcass and leave it on your front lawn for halloween! Seriously!