Thread: Decorating Themes

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I'm really happy to be starting themes this year. I always hoped when I really got into decorating I could try a new one each year. This year it is Harry Potter, next year I really want to use those fake boarded windows and was thinking maybe I could go with a classic haunted house/Classic monsters theme. I'm thinking Universal Studios Wolfman, Dracula, Frankenstein etc. I keep reading some great theme ideas on this forum and thought we could start a discussion of ideas anyone has tried, seen, or wants to try.

<center>“by the Pricking of My Thumbs, Something Wicked This Way Comes.”</center>

This is only going to be my second year going all out for Halloween, and although this isn't enough to gauge what I may do in the future, I can honestly say that I don't think that I'll divert from the ole' standard Haunted House theme. I've seen postings about zombie clowns, Harry Potter, etc, but I can't see myself doing any of these...just too different! It may be that it's too soon to entertain anything other than the standard, although a classic monster theme does sound interesting.

-fly

hey Sprfly,just let the theme idea come naturally,Use your halloween induced imagination and it will come to ya.

rod spain

I gotta agree with Sprfly, my biggest problem is storage so I want to be able to use everything I have and I try to add one new prop a year. I have been going more scary and it is getting harder NOT to hang up the cutesy things I have but I can't part with them either...lol!

I try to think of theme possibilities that will let me reuse what I have as much as possible. We don't have the budget or storage to be completely unique each year. Last year we sort of had a mini theme going on spiders. My wife was a black widow spider woman covered in webby veils, we had skeletal remains of trick or treaters in a giant web next to her, and we had a motorized spider going up and down. I don't like to buy anything that won't be used a lot in future years. If it won't be reused, as a general rule it has to be fairly cheap and home-made.

Nozoki just mentioned the idea of a scarecrow with a pumpkin head. Last year I toyed with the idea of making an army of pumpkin head people in various stages of coming out of the ground in my graveyard.

Some year I still want to do a Charlie Brown theme. When I was little my neighbors did an excellent Great Pumpkin theme with 2 dimensional painted wood cut out characters. My idea on this would be some year when my yard looks really horrific to add terrified costumed Charlie Brown characters looking around.

<center>“by the Pricking of My Thumbs, Something Wicked This Way Comes.”</center>

How about Charlie Brown meets Jason?You could have Snoopy hung in the gallows while Lucy is now a vampiress trying to suck the blood of the Little Red Haired Girl.Or better yet,Leatherface getting ready to saw Charlie Brown in half with a buzzsaw.Schroder is now the Phantom of The Opera,Pigpen has been transformed into the BogMonster.just for thoughts.

rod spain

Wolf, I LOVE your "Army of Pumpkin Heads" theme. Thats a great idea--especially the different stages part. I may steal that idea sometime if you don't mind.

And Rod......You're one SICK PUPPY! LOL

"The banshee shrieks with WICKED delight, on this, a cold and death filled night!"

Go for it Wicked, I love having a forum for sharing ideas.

Rod, you haved the right idea. It would not be fun for me without some real dark stuff included. Maybe some zombie corpses reaching for them.

<center>“by the Pricking of My Thumbs, Something Wicked This Way Comes.”</center>

"The banshee shrieks with WICKED delight, on this, a cold and death filled night!"