I'm so excited. I moved into my own apartment this year and I'm finally in a popular neighborhood that gets a ton of foot traffic. I've got a great porch in the front of my apartment that's rather large. There are two steps leading up to it. In the front room I have huge windows that look into the porch. The only halloween decorations I have are fake spiderwebs (and plenty of real ones).

I'm goint to get a bunch of pumpkins to carve and I'm probably going to stuff a few dummies to sit in the chairs. I'm looking for more very inexpensive ideas to make the house look great. Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday.

Dried grasses, weeds, seedpods, stuff like that can be gathered with some wire and a bow and hang on a wall or a door. If there isn't enough dry stuff, back with some evergreen.

Cut out paper cat silhouettes to put in your windows.

Tin cans with hammered holes in them make luminaria. Put either votives or tea lights in the bottom with some dirt or sand. To hammer holes in the can, figure out a design, mark it on the can after you've peeled the label off. You can either stick a piece of wood in there and hammer away, or fill it full of water and freeze, then hammer nails into the ice. Once you take out the nails and shine a light in there, you'll see your pretty design light up.

White or close to white pillow cases can be strung from tree limbs to look like ghosts. You could put a ball or a rolled up t-shirt in the "head" , tie it off below and then pin a string to the top to suspend it.

Beth

I made some cat silhouetts to put in the window as Beth sugguested. They're really cute. I'm thinking about getting a bunch of black and orange crepe paper and hanging it vertically along the sides of the porch to enclose it. Anyone else have anymore ideas?

Don't forget about corn stalks and "Indian" corn. Gourds go along with the pumpkins and bales of hay add a touch for the dummies or pumpkins to sit on. You can ususally get these things from a farmer's market. I'm in the process of doing all this to my front porch now. I had forgotten about the paint can luminaries.

I'm really gross...

Doll parts in clear plastic bags with fake blood.

Tortured barbie dolls.

punch bowls full of green water and dry ice

a head on a platter

rubber ears and lips and noses and eyeballs on a platter with lettuce and garnishes.

Rubber bats and rats and bugs

scary music and eerie lighting

I bought some pumpkins we're going to carve at target for $1.99 and I'm going to go shopping today for more halloween stuff. I'm also going to put halloween designs on the porch with chalk.

I made some 3D paper bag bats and pumpkins to hang around the porch. I got some of our shopping bags and drew the design on the printed side. Then I cut the design out and colored and painted on the clean side. Then I stapled the two sides together and filled them with newspaper.

Martha stewart magazine has a good idea...

Paint a body siloet hanging from a rope on a white bed sheet with black paint. Make it life size. and hang that from the window. Leave the light on, and People will see that from the outside. it looks really cool. I did it to my sisters room.

For my room, I took dozens and dozens of fall leaves, and hung them from my curtan rod,and hung it infront of the window. I put pumkins, and indian corn on the mantle. I switched the houseplants..to things like mums, from the vines I had climbing around my window for summer

I have a basket of wood sitting there, all nice and fallesque.

mmmmm. . . . I love fallesque!
One year my mom made me a Bat Wreath- it's just black paper folded and cut like a paper snowflake, but each section is a bat with its wings and feet touching each other. I think it makes a great window decoration all year round!
I just moved to an apartment with no yard and barely any porch, so I'm glad y'all have so many good window ideas.
One other element of bat decor- this from martha stewart last year. Cut little bat sillhouettes from black paper and attach short lengths of thread. tape the thread to the inside of a lampshade so each bat hangs inside- when you turn on the light the bat's shadow appears, and flutters as it dangles! (note: straight-sided lampshades give the crispest shadow)
Batty