When my kids were little, we always crafted really cool homemade scarecrows and scary monsters for the front porch. We went to Goodwill and scrounged around to find fun stuff. One year, my daughter found a HUGE pair of white shaggy boots up to the knee and that looked really good on the scarecrow. We had fun finding outlandish clothes to dress him and we always made the heads out of carved pumpkins held up on stakes that we got at one of the pumpkin patches out on the coast. A couple of hay bales, some corn shocks, a big black cauldron filled with water and dry ice on Halloween night. None of it cost much money, a trip or two to Goodwill. But we spent lots of time planning, designing, scrounging, and building and assembling our fun scenes.
I feel very sorry for kids today with all the factory-made, expensive Halloween crap like in this article. What’s the fun of buying that plastic garbage and putting it up with the horrible “scary” sounds coming out of it? Where’s the family fun time and creativity?
Ugh.
I know what you mean but some people aren’t very creative. I have trouble thinking outside the box myself but you gave some good ideas.