All you need to do is "spook" the lamp post up! First, start off by using REALLY dim bulbs in it, then, get a bunch of gauze/ripped fabric (be sure to stain it a bit to make it look old) and hang if over the lamps.

 

Why would you want to cover it up? I'd incorporate a prop into it. And change the bulbs to dim flickering candle-like ones.
That's a gorgeous lamppost, and I can just see a grim reaper behind it.

 

I would make it a ghost, you have the basic shape.

 

Personally, I LOVE the lamp post, and would do as the others said with the dim bulbs, etc.

But if you insist on covering it, I would turn it into the Grim Reaper, holding a scythe, and use red bulbs to give him a nice glow.......

 

I love the ghost idea, it would work very well. You could also dress it up as a grim reaper, or a scarecrow even.
Dimmer bulbs/flicker bulbs would be pretty easy to swap and would look great.
Thing is, the lamp post actually has the right look, other than its clean whiteness, for a good Hallowe'en Cemetery lamp post. If you could paint it black and put a flicker in it, you're done.
Or don't paint it, but have some drunken or laughing skeleton or other goblin-ish beastie hanging off of one of the arms of the lamp.
Way I see it, you don't have a problem, but a chance to add something cool to your display!

Mike C.

 

put a posable skeleton in it and one going up the pole , put flickering bulbs instad of regular light bulbs......hide another skelly in the bush below coming out ? i bought a bunch of posable skeletons last year and we hang them in diffrent postions with candle sticks on our porch poles or guttes etc....make a neat effect.....see a few in my link below

A Witch from Canada

http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b262/Witch1971/Halloween 2005/

 

I think the easiest thing to do would be (as everyone else already said) use flicker bulbs in it. On top of that, if you don't mind it being this color year round, you could paint it black. I think it'd look better in black as it wouldn't stand out nearly as much, not to mention it'd look fine in the off-season as well.

 

Ditto what Zombie-F said.

 

If painting is out of the question (and I agree with Zombie-F...black would be good all year long, and not stand out quite so badly), you could also try to age it with mud...

Just coat the thing...probably a couple of times over.
Then rub enough off to make certain the lamp-post shows properly, but has "ages" of dust and dirt accumulated upon it (remember to spiderweb profusely).

Once your haunt is over, just hose it off, and perhaps give a rub with a cloth to remove all the mud and dirt.

Watch out for rain.

 

I think that thing is great! Use the flickering lights.

 

As I understand, this is a backdrop for a witch at an altar. Correct? I would change out the bulbs to flicker/candle bulbs and drape the whole thing. You may have to make a small wire frame to arc from one lower lamp, over the taller lamp, to the other lower lamp. Then drape it in black cotton and add a second layer of aged cheesecloth over that. It becomes a backdrop. You could use purple or red lights instead. Just experiment for the right effect.

 

If you don't like the previous ideas,
how about covering it with a scarecrow, a reaper, or a grave digger, with one arm posed to hold one of the lamps, then remove the bulbs from the other ones, and have them covered with the gravedigger dummy.
You could get a few munkins and cut the entrance wound/access from the bottom, with flicker bulbs in the lamps, and the different jackolanterns covering the lamps, you kind of get four floating heads or jackolanterns.

Could you incorporate it into a sign for the cemetary, either standing tall behind the lamppost or on top of it?
Just a though from the cheap seats.