Can you believe it’s already fall? Are you ready for Halloween? It’s time to turn your home’s exterior into a creepy, crawly graveyard sure to scare (and thrill) the neighborhood kids. You can use the trees in your front yard as part of your design scheme, provided they are healthy and sturdy. Gordon Pro Tree Service can assess their health before you hang your Halloween decorations. Here are some ideas if they’re good to go.

If you have a tree swing, make use of it by putting something scary on it. You can purchase the frightening swing occupant or make it yourself. Suggestions include a dead body with a pumpkin head, the Headless Horseman with his steed eating grass underneath the tree, a skeleton that glows in the dark, or even the ghost of a child. The occupant can be lightweight so it doesn’t stress the tree branch.

If you don’t have a tree swing, hang lighted ghosts and ghouls from your tree branches. Make sure they aren’t too heavy and hang them throughout all of your trees. You can purchase ghosts and ghouls that light up or hang them on low branches and place tall yard lights underneath them to make them glow. Just make sure the materials they’re made of are not a fire hazard that could be ignited by the lights.

Purchase a ton of rubber or paper bats and hang them densely from your tree branches to create scary bat colonies all over your front yard. You can download bat sound effects and play them in your front yard to add to the terror. The bats will move when it’s windy outside, making it look as if they’re flying. Add a bunch of scary, rubber rats at the bottom of your trees with some of them climbing the trunks.

Halloween wouldn’t be Halloween without witches and the witch flying into the tree decoration is old and over-used. Rather, purchase or make a coven of witches on their brooms and hang them from the branches as if they’re flying together. You can also add a coven in your yard. Circle the witches around a boiling cauldron using dry ice. The flying witches are coming to join in on the ritualistic spells.

Your home will be the talk of the block with these decoration ideas. Call Gordon Pro Tree Service in Buford, GA,  before you place your Halloween decorations. We’ll inspect your trees to make sure they’re ready for their spooky role this Halloween.