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Halloween
Tradition #8 - Put Up a Halloween Tree
One
of the best Halloween decorations you can erect inside your
house is a spooky looking Halloween tree! It
really adds a festive mood to your home and can look hauntingly beautiful!
 It can be any size from a small tabletop decoration, to
a full size haunted tree. Your Halloween tree can be
store-bought or
homemade and there are lots and lots of creepy things that can be
used as tree decorations and ornaments.
Some store
bought tree's come pre-lit with mini-lights, or you can
decorate your homemade tree with strings of lights or
paint it with glow-in-the-dark paint and illuminate it
with a black light. For
examples of Halloween Tree's, visit Halloween Online's
Halloween Decorations
section.
Pick out a
special corner or area of a room to put up your tree. It
should be somewhere that the family can see it while they
relax, maybe in the same place that you put up a Christmas
tree. If you have a fire place, you may just want to get
something that can sit on the mantel. Decorate the whole
mantel using the tree as the center piece.
Then decide
what kind of tree you would like, a store bought type or, if
you want, make one yourself. Making one consists of going
out and looking for a small dead tree or large tree branch.
Using a Christmas tree stand, you can spray paint it black
and after you've applied a few coats of spray it can be
decorated using any small Halloween items that you can find.
We have a
large dining area in our kitchen with a bay window. We
usually set this area aside for our indoor Halloween Tree
scene. Using plastic fencing, Spanish moss and other props,
we make a whole scene around our Halloween Tree every year.
We take a leaf out of the table, which gives us room to add
our little area. It's surprising how that will draw everyone
to the dinner table during October! We eat dinner basking in
the orange and purple glow of the tree lights and just
admire the scene. You can go
here to see pictures of what we do.
It doesn't have to be
elaborate, it can be as simple as a small table top tree but
adding a Halloween Tree to your home decorations each year
just seems to make things cheerier! |
