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It used to be that Christmas was the major decorating holiday, but each year more and more people choose to put up Halloween decorations. Noting this trend, manufactures of housing decor have begun manufacturing a wide variety of Halloween decorations from cute as button to downright frightening.
As autumn approaches each year you can hardly pick up a decorating magazine without finding page after page of Halloween decorations that are for sale. Halloween decorations come in various forms from candles shaped like ghosts and jack-o-lanterns, to wreaths and even fake walls that can turn your home into a dungeon.
Monster Cut-Out Halloween Decorations
Skeletons are one of the most widely purchased large Halloween decorations. People hang these ghoulish delightful pile of bones from trees, doorways or bury them in the yard. The skeletons with glowing eyes can look especially frightful when you come upon one unexpectedly.
Jack-o-Lanterns of course remain the most popular of all Halloween decorations and people with an artistic bent are no longer content to simply carve a simple face. Instead, they create all kinds of interesting designs and even whole scenes in intricate details.
Mini Jack O' Lantern Halloween Decorations
Witches cauldrons complete with steam are another popular Halloween decoration. These bubbling cauldrons often decorate yards and even decks of homes. These decorations are particularly eye catching when accompanied by a Witch and an assortment of rats, frogs and snakes.
Homemade Halloween decorations for both inside and outside are still extremely popular. Making a few homemade Halloween decorations is a great way to spend an afternoon with your children. Children especially enjoy drawing faces on mini pumpkins to create artistic jack-o-lanterns to scatter about the house. They also enjoy making ghost and spider mobiles.
Dripping Blood Happy Halloween Balloons
Halloween decorations for the table can be homemade or purchased and come in a wide variety to meet everyone’s taste. Table decorations can be as simple as a few candles in Halloween shapes or with pumpkins or leaves painted on them, to flowers inside of pumpkin vases. They can consist of a small centerpiece or run the entire length of the table. You can even purchase small individual Halloween decorations to set at each individual place setting.
While some people place Halloween decorations in just one room, others decorate their entire house and yard even going to the extent of stringing Halloween lights on the outside of their homes. It is fun to drive down the street and view the yards filled with skeletons, ghosts, vampires and jack o’ lanterns. Kids especially enjoy the joy and excitement of staying up late to drive around with mom and dad and see all these wonderful imaginative Halloween decorations.
Bleeding Halloween Cups
It doesn’t matter whether you have scary Halloween decorations, cute ones or a combination of the two, decorating for this special holiday is both fun and enjoyable and gives everyone a chance to display their artistic talents in an exciting and original way.
The Origins of Halloween Decorations
Halloween is always celebrated on October 31st and originates from the Celtic’s and their festival called Samhain as well as the Christian celebration All Saints’ Day.
The Celtics believed that on October 31st the doorway between the living and the dead was open. This is the time they harvested their crops and prepared their supplies for winter. They believed that the dead could cause harm to their harvests or even to themselves by causing sickness. The Samhain festival was a way for the living to imitate the dead and the celtics dressed as ghosts and lost souls. Halloween decorations take their origin here as well as the Celtics decorated their properties to ward off evil spirits.
The word Halloween comes from the phrase ‘All Hallows Day’ an earlier term used for ‘All Saints’ Day’ and means the living in the dead can be together.
The most famous of all Halloween decorations is of course the jack-o’-lantern. The jack-o’-lantern was a popular Halloween decoration in the Celtic days as it was a cheap, fun and easy to make. The light from the candle placed inside the hollowed out pumpkin signified the dead coming alive.
The colours orange and black are the traditional colours for Halloween decorations, but these days they come in all shapes, forms and colours.