The origin of Halloween roots back to Romans. The celebrations include making Jack-O'-Lanterns, wearing ghostly masks & costumes, organizing horror parties, decorating the houses based on horror/haunted/ghostly themes, etc. Given the nature, themes & ideas play a very important role in Halloween decorations, and the use of appropriate motifs & artifacts displaying novel themes is important. Staircase decoration therefore, can be a very effective tool to spice up the celebration and to add a haunting veil to the external or internal stairways of your home.
Steps to make Halloween stairway of pumpkin lanterns:
Lights Lanterns
• Ready made Pumpkins with Lights & Sounds: The fundamental stairway decoration can be purchasing synthetic pumpkins from the market with various external designs. You can light these up with electrical connection. You can also bring the exclusivity by purchasing stout pumpkins from the local stores, dry it little bit, and then carve out various weird faces on it & light a candle in each of them. The arrangement should look natural and unanticipated. One interesting idea can be whenever anyone rings the doorbell; the stairway lights turn off, bringing the desired darkness. To keep the effect mild, the electrical connection of the pumpkins should be activated after a few seconds, suddenly lighting the stairway through lit up pumpkins. To add more life to the theme, you can also consider changing your doorbell music for the Halloween night so that there is a dramatic light & sound show for each visitor, accompanied with some horror sounds!
• Jack-O'-Lanterns: This is the most traditional unsurprising method by which you can decorate the stairs. This employs several carved pumpkins along with dried pots, with wine bottles in between them.
• 'Scream' Movie theme: Buy a ready made scarecrow from any specialized crafts shop or make one with old overcoat, wooden racks, and the face mask stuffed with mud or straw. Place it on the left hand side of the door, just beneath the doorbell to insert the element of shock treatment. Cover the outer door frames with artificial cobweb (which you can make from synthetic threads, which are not too hard) and some wild weeds. On each stair, place any bucket or earthen pot, cover it with straw, and tie it. Place a carved pumpkin over each pot. Keep minimum outdoor lighting to increase the effect.
• Internal Stairway Decoration: Get some synthetic pumpkins of varying sizes, electronically lit and with some artificial bugs scattered over them. As the horror element is the most effective outdoor, here the prevailing mood should be of comic relief.
How To Make a Halloween Stairway of Pumpkin Lanterns
Annette Labedzki received her BFA at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. She has more than 25 years experience. She is the founder and developer of an online art gallery featuring original art from all over the world. It is a great site for art collectors to buy original art. Is is also a venue for artists to display and sell their art. Artists can join for free and their image upload is unlimited. Please visit the website at http://www.labedzki-art.com
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