Thread: Trees?

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We have a moderately sized tree in our yard, and I've been trying to think of ways to incorporate it into this year's decorating. We've tried other things, such as those cheesy plastic ghost things that hang from the branches, a motion-triggered bat that managed to terrify my mother but no one else, and lights. All of them seemed to take away from our otherwise creepy yard.

We just decorate our front yard up, no big haunted house (unfortunately). The kids call it the "spook house". (:

Does anyone have any ideas on how to decorate it?

(First post here. Yay!)

My suggestion would be to either buy or make one of those creepy tree faces and hit it with some dramatic lighting. Maybe green and red from below and to opposite sides of the face.

Alternatively, just casting the right light(s) on it from the right angle(s) could be a good accent.

streach some spider webbing from the branches to the ground.

Originally Posted by scareisburg

stretch some spider webbing from the branches to the ground.

And a supersized spider with a victim on the ground. That's what I'm doing this year.

Glyphen's slide projector tree images: My Attempt of Slide Projector Tree Images

Or you can project the Hallowindow DVD onto the leaves: Hallowindow - Mark Gervais

I saw a simple, but creepy effect recently. The homeowner simply bought a bunch of those rubber bats that hang upside-down, and hung them all over the tree. All in all he had about 30 of them I'd guess, which would add up financially, but if you bought just a few and put them on the lower branches, then made some sort of easy prop for the higher branches, the effect would be the same. Anything of a similar size and shape would do the trick.

I've always seen those bats and never paid much attention to them - but seeing that many in one tree was actually surprisingly impressive.

Originally Posted by Terra

Glyphen's slide projector tree images: My Attempt of Slide Projector Tree Images

Or you can project the Hallowindow DVD onto the leaves: Hallowindow - Mark Gervais

Aaaaw Terra! you make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Mebbe its the wool sweater I ate, who knows :P

We used to have a tree that was about 12 feet high and would get up to the top with ladders and use lots of webbing to stretch all the way down so the whole tree was covered. Then red or green lights in the tree shining up would give an interesting efect on the different areas of webbing. Some are straight tight lines and other areas would be thin screen like areas. Now add lots of rubber spiders, snakes, bats and other creepy crawlies and it was great. People wouldn't notice the things in the web until they got up close. Just my 2 cents