Halloween Idea #2
Did you know that Halloween is America's second largest picture taking day of the year, just behind Christmas. Halloween pictures and home video excite the memory of Halloween' past. The spooky costumes, creepy decorations and trick or treaters at the front door all make for some very memorable snapshots and are great for scrap booking.

Enter your Halloween pictures in the Halloween Photo Contest!

Everyone loves to bring out the photos to show off, show to friends and family and just take out to browse through and relive fond memories. Check out Halloween Pictures 101 for all sorts of picture taking tips.

Halloween Idea #3
You can carve some truly beautiful and artistic pumpkins freehand, but if you want to create really detailed carvings you'll want to use a pumpkin carving pattern. If you've never carved a pumpkin this way before, you may be a bit intimidated, but don't worry, its easier than you think and you'll love the results. For more information about pumpkin carving, visit the Pumpkin Carving 101 web site.

For the best selection of pumpkin carving patterns anywhere, SpookMaster is the place to go! With hundreds of designs, you have a great selection and their pumpkin carving patterns are top-rate. They even have free patterns, so you can try-before-you-buy. You simply subscribe online and download all patterns you want directly to your computer and print them out for use. All at one great price!

Halloween Idea #4
What could be better than a coffin for your main Halloween decoration? Whether you are hosting a Halloween party, haunting your house, building a graveyard in your front yard or simply to add something extra creepy to your front porch to scare for you're visitors, adding a coffin or casket as a Halloween decoration is like icing on the cake, spooky icing that is. Visit the Halloween Coffins web site for lots of Halloween coffin ideas.

We use the "Classic Toe Pincher Coffin" from The Halloween Connection. This coffin is handmade from rough wood to give it an old look. It measures almost six-feet long and looks great with a skeleton, corpse, vampire or other Halloween prop laying inside it.

Halloween Idea #5
Black lights add quite a stunning effect to any suitable Halloween decor! Using black lights, strobe lights and other light effects can really have an impact on the way your Halloween party, haunt or decorations look.

Halloween Online has several articles dedicated to using black lights.

Halloween Effects carries a full line of black light units, plus a full range of fog machines, bubble machines and snow machines as well as other Halloween party supplies, decorations and props.

Halloween Idea #6
The first step to creating an impressive Halloween graveyard is to use as many tombstones as you can and are practical for the space you have set aside for your display. Try to buy better quality tombstones of different styles if you can, they look much more realistic than less expensive ones and will last longer since they can take more abuse.

Use dirt to make burial mounds where your tombstones will be. If you have a supply of dirt, you can build up three to six inch high mounds in front of some of the tombstones. Just remember, you'll need to remove all that extra dirt after Halloween. As a final touch, you can scatter leaves, twigs and branches around the area to give it an untended look. For lots of tips and ideas for using gravestones visit the Halloween Tombstones website.

To buy high quality Halloween Tombstones visit The Halloween Connection

Halloween Idea #8
Add the effect of lightning to your haunted house, yard haunt or Halloween party with the Lightning Machine from Haunted Creations. This unit realistically simulates the effects of both thunder and lightning! Read a review about this Halloween special effects unit in the lighting section at The Yard Haunter.

Don't confuse this device with cheap, unrealistic knock-offs. This Lightning Machine was originally designed for commercial haunted attractions where the most bang for the buck was wanted. Since the flash of light from real lightning is seen before we hear the thunder, the method of simulating it must be capable of synchronizing the sound of the thunder and the flash of light generated by a strobe unit. This unit does just that! Sold exclusively at the Halloween Connection.

Halloween Idea #9
Add some spider web to your Halloween decorations. Stretchable spider web is a great way to add an extra level of scariness to your home for Halloween. There are all sorts of places that you can add spider webs, such as between porch posts, over your windows, in corners, on furniture, over doorways, between tree limbs, on Halloween decorations.

This stuff can be difficult to work with. Most people don't stretch the web material out far enough, leaving thick strands and clumps that look unrealistic. The best way is to stretch it out a lot to make very thin veils of spider web. Remember, a little goes a long ways. Read this great article on how to use Stretchable Spider Web at Halloween Online.

You can also hang long strands of clear or white thread on your porch to simulate spider webs as people walk through them. You can buy spider webs at Halloween Effects.

Halloween Idea #10
A vampires pale skin and darkened eyes, a witches sexy eye makeup or a zombies rotting flesh all have one thing in common, makeup. Unless you wear a Halloween mask, just about any Halloween costume persona can be enhanced with complementary makeup.

We always experiment long before Halloween night with the makeup style we intend to use so that all goes well on the big night. Make sure that any makeup you buy is water soluble so that is easy to clean off with just soap and water.

The Costume Kingdom has a large selection of Halloween makeup kits including the "Super Makeup Kit" which comes with a twelve color makeup palette, three tubes of cream makeup, one tube of fake blood, glitter gel makeup, fake skin, a makeup sponge, stipple sponge and two sponge/brush applicators.