10 Stunning Outdoor Lighting Ideas For Halloween
Outdoor Lighting Ideas For Halloween
Halloween is a night event. It is during the night time when the spirit of Halloween starts to shine. That’s why a lot of our decorating effort should be geared for night time. So, here’s some of the greatest outdoor lighting ideas for Halloween out there that will make your Halloween none like other.
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1. Glowing Halloween Light Pods
The night of Halloween is always full of mystery. Spark the curiosity of your neighbors by decorating the tree with glowing pods! They’re actually ball shaped paper mache that’s structured with the help of a balloon. After leaving it to dry and harden, put a glow stick inside before hanging them under the tree. It looks kinda magical and the greenish glow makes it look like something sinister and not safe to be approached. Kinda cool huh?
2. Glowing Eyes
Freak out your neighbors by giving them intense eye contact right from the bushes around your house! This easy decorative bush craft can be made using glow sticks and toilet rolls. Cut out the eye shape from the toilet rolls using scissors and put a glow stick in there. If you want wider ones, combine two toilet rolls together. You can tape both ends of the tube so it won’t fall off that easily. Be sure to put up some caution tapes to warn your visitors of these monsters!
Check out the link below for a quick video tutorial!
3. Witch Silhouette
Invite some witches from across town to brew their potions right in front of your garage! The garage is always a spacious empty lot. So, it deserves some simple decoration like this. You can cut out the shapes out of a cardboard and paint it dark. Put them in standing position and install simple lighting at the back of it. Lights like orange, purple or green suits the Halloween theme and will make your silhouette stand out more!
4. Angry Tree Face
Ignite the anger of forest spirits to haunt your tree with this simple DIY! Simply carve the bark to make 3 apertures for the eyes and a mouth. Then, fit in 3 wide angle LED red lights at the back of its eyes and mouths. Then, hang it with hooks on walls or trees.
5. Masked Walls
There’s something about walls with face that can creep people out especially these white ones! You can always draw scary patterns on the masks to make it even more horrifying! But, it’s default appearance already did a great job in delivering the creepy feel. This also happens to be one easy DIY that you can make. The lighting is from tea light candles that is taped behind the mask. You could use glow sticks as well but not sure how it will turn out. If you do try it, please let us know in the comments!
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6. Ghost Tree
Ready for some creepy ghost tree! They’re actually ping pong balls. You have to poke a hole with a knife for you to slot the fairy lights in. The cloth covering the ball is hardened with PVA glue. PVA glue stiffens fabric permanently once the glue hardens. Dilute the glue using equal parts of glue and water and mix continuously to obtain a paste with an even consistency. Use paint brush to apply the glue onto the fabric. Craft the fabric into the desired shape and leave to dry. Apply more coats, depending on how stiff you want your material to be.Draw some ghost faces on it after that. Then, wrap the whole thing around a wooden branch. See the tutorial via link below for a clearer guide.
7. Spider Light Balls
Here’s another great lighting using fairy lights and ping pong balls. The spider in this idea is actually a tattoo sticker. You could stick spider patterned papers on it as an alternative. If you’re not into spider, you could change it into eyeballs! Just draw a creepy eye onto the ping pong ball and you’re halfway there!
8. Ghost Shadow
There’s a ghost lurking among the shadows! Amazing isn’t it! This piece of DIY uses a tea light candle to project the shadow of a ghost-shaped pattern onto the wall. You can change the design to whatever creepy creatures that you want. Just carve it on a cardboard or wood and place it near the tea light candles. This idea works best in dark environments.
9. Ghost Hand
How would you feel about having these creepy hands coming out from the ground? Excited! Yes, me too! This DIY is modeled using your own bare hands. It is made by wrapping your hands with masking tape with the sticky part facing out. Then, when your hand is fully covered, cut it so you get your hand back. Then, seal it back and put a glow stick in. Be sure to check out the source link below for a graphical guide to make this.
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10. Monster Mud Reaper
A monster is making its appearance at last! This may look like a difficult prop to make but the clear tutorial would help greatly. Chicken wire is used as the outer frame. It wraps around a PVC pipe that becomes the skeleton to this whole thing. After that, wrap around the chicken wire with burlap. Color it with stone spray paint. For the finishing touch, hook a rustic lantern over the PVC. Check out the source link below for clearer tutorial details.
Hope this will add to the eerie creepiness that you would desire around your house for this coming fun Halloween. If you do like this post, share it! It’ll encourage us further to make a better compilation posts like this. Happy Halloween!
