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You definitely know it's fall when you're driving down the road and see ghosts and bats hanging from tree branches in people yards. Or when you see a flying witch in lights on top of your neighbors roof. You can turn your house into a castle if you want or maybe you would prefer the ginger bread house from Hansel and Gretel. With Halloween anything goes.

If you are on a limited budget and you don't have very many decorations yet you can try your hand at some crafty projects like making light covers for porch lights, pieces of tissue paper with Halloween themed shapes and taped to the light fixtures on the outside of the glass. Or if you have a flood light or a spot light that you can point towards your home and have a shape show up on the side you can put a shape on the glass of the light.

Fabric ghosts hanging from trees are a favorite but not a lot of people account for the weather in their area making them out of paper o filling the head portion with paper and it wilts and runs color down the ghost making it look less spooky. My favorite method of making the ghosts is to make the head portion in the center of a square piece of fabric fill it with a plastic bag stuffed with plastic bags so you come out with a round shape that won't squish when it gets wet or blown around a bit. Then after tying a string around the neck feed a plastic hanger up through the fabric and through a hole cut in the base of the neck right above the string. This makes the appearance of shoulders while giving you a way to hang it from a string that gives you a bit of movement.

If you live in a suburban or rural area where you have a walk way that you will have guests or trick or treaters coming up to your door you can make a candle walk way with either tea-lights in small jack-o-lanterns or in small paper bags with shapes cut out so the light comes through. If you don't want to use tea-lights you can use small flameless candles.

If you want to go all out you may like the inflatable lighted decorations that have become more popular lately for Halloween. Also making people out of old clothes filled with other old clothes, news paper, or plastic bags and use a mask for a head you can position them any way you like making a scene from a movie or maybe from a favorite ghost story.

Webs from trees with giant spiders and outdoor lights hanging from the branches lighting them up just right can be extremely especially if you get trick or treaters. I used to like getting the remote control spiders or rats you could get at joke shops and putting them among the ones that didn't move and when people got close make it start moving towards them really creeps people out and it is very amusing for you and them after they realize it's not real.

Whatever you choose have fun with it because that is the whole point of a celebration. Also remember that you do have to clean it up eventually so the spray webs should be kept to a minimum if you are decorating a large area because they are a bit of a pain to clean up if you're using a lot of it.

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