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green to white, or peach to brown to orange.
Family friendly
For a fun and family-oriented look, think about adding color and smiling faces, says DeVos. “It’s having more color, like purple and orange and black tied in together, and having friendly witches,” she said. “There is no blood or death. It’s all about friendly pumpkins and friendly ghosts and scarecrows.” You can share a happy Halloween vibe using garlands or gel clings for the windows, DeVos says, or cute yard stakes or trick-or-
treating signs. Add some drama with paper-bag lanterns: Cut Halloween shapes or words like “Boo!” into black paper bags and put electric lights inside, Graff says. There are so many decorations to choose from, including skeletons, skulls, reapers, ghosts, witches, bats, crows and other critters, not to mention semblances of blood and gore. For maximum impact, accessorize with spider webbing, lights and a fog machine, DeVos says. You can hang spider webbing from your roof to the ground and fill it with giant spiders crawling down, she said. Add to the scene by creating
a crow-filled graveyard in your front yard with tombstones. “You can stick bones into the dirt so it looks like someone might be coming out,” DeVos said. Bats, snakes and giant spiders can greet trick-ortreaters from a tree in your front yard. “You can put them onto the tree and have them hanging down, and have webbing and cloth coming down and drape it all over the tree,” she said. Skeletons can greet trickor-treaters from rocking chairs or stools on the front porch; decorate around them with bones, skulls or cauldrons. homes.cjonline.com | The Topeka Capital-Journal | Saturday, July 29, 2017 | 9
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