From the mailbox to the front door, these scary outdoor Halloween decoration ideas will send chills up the spine of any who approach your liar. Simple to make and very realistic, the elements of this graveyard are sure to beckon little ghouls as they weave their way through the neighborhood.

*Graveyard

Create your tombstones out of Styrofoam sheets or scraps of lumber, cheap plywood will do just fine. Cut them out and make each one a little different. Make some with a curved top, a broken corner, doubled and some tall and skinny.

Glue skull and cross bones, scroll-work and other objects cut out of cardboard. Paint them various shades of gray and write epitaphs on each one. Space them out along the walkway to your door and spread some dirt in front of each one. You only need a single layer of dirt.

Place a Styrofoam cooler behind one of the tombstones and add hot water and dry ice to create fog. Use vines, Spanish moss, dead leaves, bones, and other touches to make it look real. If there is no tree near-by dig a hole and plant several large tree limbs. Hang bats, owls, snakes and other items from the tree branches. Add some Spanish moss to give it an eerie look.

*Grim Reaper

Behind the graveyard create a Grim Reaper as you would create a scarecrow. Drive a cross into the ground and add padding for the head. Stuff two rubber gloves with cotton and attach with tape. Paint the hands a ghastly green and glue fake fingernails on each finger.

Draw a scythe blade on cardboard and spray paint it silver. Attach it to an old broom or mop handle painted black with red paint splashed on it for blood. Add a little blood to the silver scythe and to one of the hands.

Attach a skeleton mask to the head and dress the reaper in a black hooded robe. The reaper is supposed to be skinny but you can add a little padding to make the robe hang right. Add a belt at the waist.

*Zombie

Stuff a ragged shirt with scraps and sew it closed at the bottom. Make a head from a plastic shopping bag by stuffing and painting it green. When this is dry, paint in the grotesque facial features of a zombie or attach a mask and a wig. Position the Zombie as if he were climbing out of one of the graves and bury the blade of a hatchet in a highly visible area of the body. Add lots of blood.

*Ghosts

No graveyard would be complete without a few ghosts, which are easy to make. A post driven in the ground with some padding added at the top make the perfect form. Drape a sheet over the top and tie loosely at

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