Use your flood lights to light up a wide area or emphasize a single spooky feature. Remember telling ghost stories in the dark, when you placed a flashlight under your chin for an eerie effect? Blue or purple flood lights placed at ground level and aimed upward at your Halloween decorations can produce a similar creepy atmosphere. You also can place orange lights along fences and porch rails as a backdrop for deeper-toned decorations. Red and orange Halloween lights also can add a dramatic effect – mimicking fire under a witch’s cauldron or lighting a porch or pumpkin, for instance. Blue, green and purple seem to make your decorations glow and can add to the unearthly aspect of your display. When it comes to Halloween lights, color is key. Here are a few creative lighting ideas to enhance your Halloween decorating scheme.
The string lights you put up for Christmas often can do double-duty during Halloween. While you’re putting up all your outdoor Halloween decorations, however, give careful thought to how you’ll light the display after dark. You can dress your home for autumn using scarecrows, colored corn and dried materials, or dive into the spookier aspects of Halloween decorations, with ghosts, ghouls and witches. Decorating for Halloween has become increasingly popular, maybe because the holiday offers such a diverse canvas for creativity.