Scary Props Create a Halloween Atmosphere
Would you like to decorate your home for a special Halloween celebration? You can tempt all five senses at your next festive party. Just for Halloween, you can even appeal to the sixth sense.
You will create a spooky atmosphere when you appeal to more than just the sight. For a great Halloween celebration, make sure you appeal to the five senses of sound, taste, scent and touch when deciding on your decorations. As you choose your decorations, think of the traditional Halloween symbols including the Jack O’ Lantern, ghosts, bats, spiders, witches, apples, cakes and hazelnuts.
Sight: Lighting is an important part of creating a Halloween atmosphere. Turn the lights down low to create an eerie look. You can decorate the lights with webs, black gauze and lights. Find bright night lights so you can keep the lighting low. When you put lights onto or near the floor, it will create an unexpected look and will make the interior of your house look different. You can also place mirrors under lights. Another idea is to lay black gauze over a string of lights.
Since ghosts and the undead are a traditional Halloween theme, you can recreate a cemetery feel with cemetery symbols such as gates, pillars and gravestones. Places that ghosts were thought to be drawn to include graveyards, crossroads and stiles. Stiles are the steps used to get over a fence.
Candles create soot and are not the safest choice for a room which h as dimmed and lowered lights. If you want to include a candle as a traditional representation of fire, make sure it is in a safe place to prevent any accidents.
Sound: You can play atmosphere music including scary sounds or old-fashioned piano music. Play soundtracks from scary movies. Rock and roll and popular music contain many Halloween themes such as magic, spells, voodoo, werewolves, witches, vampires, Halloween, dead people, superstitions, demons, graveyards, fear, blood, spiders and tombstones.
Taste: On Halloween, you can create some tasty treats that look scary and awful to eat but also taste delicious. A traditional Irish Halloween dinner including boxty, cabbage with mashed potatoes (colcannon), apple cakes and tarts, berry pie, meat pie and tea.
Scent: You can choose herbs and flowers to create a scent experience. Make sure that no one has any sensitivities or allergies before you use any fragrances. You can simmer the herbs, have potpourri or burn the herbs to create scent.
Traditional Irish Halloween herbs are apple, mint, heliotrope, nutmeg and sage. These herbs were burned in the bonfires in ancient times at Halloween. You can also display flowers that are used for mortuary purposes. These include the lily, lily of the valley, rose, fern, ivy, oak leaf, pansy and sunflower. If you display fresh flowers and plants, they will give off a subtle scent for your party.
Touch: Find novelty plates, glasses, cups and a punch bowl with a Halloween motif. Display novelty guest soaps and guest hand towels.
Sixth Sense: To make your Halloween complete, bake up a cake that has a divination item in it. Place a coin and a ring in a cake before it is baked. The coin means wealth. The ring means love or marriage. Pass the cake around and see who gets the coin or ring.
Your Halloween celebration will be much more fun when you cater to all six senses. Appealing to all of the senses will help you to create a memorable celebration.
