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Put mini lights to add an eerie resemblance to real gravestones. You will need suitable Halloween graveyard decorations like tombstones, skeletons, ghouls and fog. Its a pretty easy and fast way to add a few last minute tombstones to your display or you could just go buy some but wheres the fun in that. What’s the fun in a graveyard-themed Halloween party if the dead aren’t going to come out and play, right? Skeletons can be the perfect props to make this idea work. Halloween decor shops will typically have ghouls and skeletons that you can set up around the house.
Scatter some of them randomly around your Halloween cemetery. 5 or 6 bones in each “bone location” creates a noticeable scene. Highlighting it with floodlights helps to make it more visible, too. Finally, if you have the time, you can make your own DIY Halloween cemetery entrance with these instructions available at instructables.com.
| Add a Halloween cemetery archway entrance
When kids can’t see getting the candy,I raise my arm for the mothers, they tend to step back!!!!! My wife tells the boys not to touch Frank!!! They tend to poke at your face to see if you are in there. In the last more than 25 years I’m sure!!! Parents bring there kids, as they were there when they were kids. So I am sure I have gone through 3 rd family’s for sure.
Find out how to make great Halloween cemetery fog HERE. Since I’m such a fanatic about lighting, I could go on and on about lighting. Putting your Halloween gravestones in the garden helps to make them feel like they have always been there. Then place them randomly around the yard, some at odd angles, to make it look like your cemetery is very old and neglected.
| Create a Halloween graveyard fence
I would like to leave a suggestion about keeping tombstones in place. I adhere a piece of PVC pipe to the back and then hammer rebar into the ground. You slide the PVC pipe over the rebar and BAM they don’t go anywhere. I also use chains as a fence around the areas I don’t want people walking in. Drape them over the fence, or on some of your larger tombstones. I keep them close to the tombstones which makes it looks like they’ve risen from the grave.
Lastly, I used the sponge again to add a little green, very lightly in a few areas. The gave the stones a mossy appearance. You can also glue on some dried moss in areas for some added aging & creepy effect. I dipped moss in glue then just smeared it into crevices or made it patchy in some areas. If the letters or numbers were over cracks in the tombstones, I used a utility knife to cut the same cracks in the lettering.
| Create some fog
Foam insulation is easy to work with, making this a great DIY if you want to avoid breaking out too many tools. Make this version of a Halloween tombstone from foam insulation sheets with this tutorial from ‘Instructables‘. Whether you use real ones or plastic ones, leaning them up against a tombstone is an easy way to include them. To make your Halloween graveyard look more authentic, it helps if your cemetery looks neglected. Since ghosts are white, the lights reflect off of them and really make them stand out.
I also like to use real garden furniture and accessories in my graveyard displays. But if you prefer a more 3-D look to the bricks, try out this tutorial for making DIY Halloween cemetery columns using styrofoam. If you have a metal arbor somewhere else in your garden , you can use it as your Halloween graveyard entrance temporarily.
Instead, having guests who fit into the theme may be more fitting if you want to truly tie it all together. So, a dress code of sorts can help make your cemetery more realistic. The most obvious choice would be to dress up as a ghost or a skeleton.
For each headstone, paint several wooden stakes using the same weatherproof gray spray paint. I used two to three wooden stakes per headstone, depending on the size of the headstone. With a regular black Sharpie, use a free-hand method to draw simple headstone shapes on thin sheets of plywood.
No Halloween graveyard is complete without tombstones! Tombstone yard decorations are amazingly easy to DIY, just check out these ideas we found and you’ll see. The spirit of Halloween outside might be also brought by fun and easy graveyard scenes. It is quite easy to make your DIY Halloween graveyard decoration ideas. A few tombstones in your yard can bring a spooky scene. You need only trimming gray paper bags to make your own graveyard.
Need an easy and cheap Halloween graveyard fence? Go on over to ‘Ehow’ and find out how they did it with PVC pipe and 1×4’s. Playing Halloween cemetery sounds on a looping tape or CD will automatically make your graveyard seem scary. Or setting a plastic rat in the middle of your Halloween graveyard somewhere that people will notice him. If you happen to have an arbor in your front yard , then you have a ready-made archway entrance for your graveyard. Another thing that all good Halloween graveyards have in common is a spooky entrance.
Perching your animal props where you might normally find them makes them look real. Which I think makes it a little spookier. Find more ideas on using fake spider webs in your Halloween decor. Signs are also a great way to add some interest to your cemetery. Like this vintage-look garden bench that makes the perfect seat for a skeleton. Plus it’s not as much work as making a DIY Halloween fence from scratch.
And if you have trouble keeping your gravestones standing, try our hack for securing Halloween tombstones. This is one time when not having cut your lawn for a couple of weeks may be a benefit…the longer grass adds to the neglected feeling. Can I just say…Halloween is my favorite holiday. I LOVE creating my own Halloween graveyard.
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