If pumpkins aren't your thing, how about some other types of Halloween decorations? Do you like the look of fall leaves? Making your own Halloween wall decorations is easy. All you need is a sheet of cardboard, some paint, and white paint. Simply print out pictures of autumn foliage and cut out the shapes with black paint.
Other popular Halloween decorations include spiders, bats, webs and skeletons. How about spooky black cats? Black cats are known as "haunted cat" in the UK. In the United States, they are often called "web-dogs," a reference to their ability to move around on webbed fingers - a trait shared by many spooky creatures. If you want to get more elaborate with your spooky Halloween decorations, consider making your own webs with fishing line or fabric scraps.
Perhaps your family enjoys traditional Halloween foods such as popcorn and candy, but you'd like to add a little extra spice to the festivities. There are many different Halloween decorating ideas for this. One of the most popular choices are witches. Halloween is all about evil witches, so it only makes sense that you could add a little darkness to the front door with a wiccan witch sitting by the mailbox, waiting for trick-or-treaters to come knocking. If you don't have a big yard to work with, another option would be to hang a large Halloween spider from the front door, or even a flying, eye-catching webslinger.
For the inside of your house, there are endless Halloween decorations to choose from, as well as many fun ideas. For example, many people like to use black and orange combined colors to create a "cheery" look. Other popular colors for indoor Halloween decorating include red, silver, gold, green and gray. A very cool idea is to use an entire room's color scheme in one paint color. To give your room a "zany" Halloween look, you may choose to use an orange and blue color scheme, for example, using oranges, golds and purples for the walls and cobalt blue for your ceiling.
Of course, you don't have to stick to the old, historical Halloween ideas when you dress up for Halloween. Many people these days are more interested in celebrating the modern spirit of Halloween. Today's costumes are more humorous, comical and more appropriate for today's festivities than the gruesome, medieval styles of Halloween costumes of years ago. You can still get plenty of spooky, scary and awesome Halloween costumes to wear, but if you really want to go with the ancient traditions of Halloween then there's no better choice. By going with the ancient traditions, you'll be celebrating a day which began with religious celebrations, blood and death and has continued to bring people together to have fun, celebrate and lighten the day with silly costumes and fun games. So choose your costume today, because you never know - you may become the next Halloween inspiration.