Body Parts :
This is a good decoration for a dimly lit room at party time. Have several bowls of body parts displayed to horrify your friends. Cut up a bunch of hot dogs lenghwise for severed fingers.Cook some spaghetti noodles and add some red and blue food coloring for veins. A bunch of cocktail onions rolling around in a bowl looks like eyeballs. Fill a red balloon with warm water and spread it with strawberry jam. Invite your guests to touch your brain!

Sound Effects :
You can record several scary sounds and play it back during the festivities. A very large sheet of poster board or sheet metal makes great thunder. Uncooked rice poured onto a cookie sheet sounds like rain. Crinkle a handful of cellophane for a roaring fire. To get a good scream you can, well -- scream. Snap carrots in half for the sound of breaking bones. Flap a plastic bag in front of the microphone for the
sound of bats. Slowly blow bubbles with a straw into a bowl for that bog sound. Hunt around your house and the garden to find a squeaky hinge somewhere and tape it before someone gets to it with a can of oil.     

Webbed Chandelier :
Recycle an old umbrella as a haunting light fixture. Remove the fabric covering; stretch spider webbing over the ribs. Decorate with plastic spiders and battery-operated lanterns attached to the ribs with bent wire or S hooks. Tie rope around the handle, and hang from the ceiling with a plant hook or cup hook.

The Halloween wind sock :
is stitched using several colors of yarn and simple stitches that work quickly over 7-count plastic canvas. The nylon streamers are edged with sequins on a string that sparkles even when the moon is shining.

Creepy Nocturnal Creatures :
The creepy-crawlies of Halloween (both flying and footed) cause cries of fright. Spray white pumpkins with a sealer, then use patterns to transfer the critter outlines to the pumpkins. Fill in the outlines with black paint, then arrange the spooky gourds on a black tray. Stick a colony of bats cut from card stock and equipped with wire stems into the center pumpkin to heighten the horror.

Ghostly Getaway :
What You Need:
* Plastic-foam balls: 1-1/2-inch, 4-1/2-inch, and 6-inch
* Old white sheet or fabric
* Black-with-white-polka-dots ribbon (1/16-inch- and 15/16-inch-wide)
* Large-tip black permanent marking pen
* "Groucho" glasses and Spanish moss "hair"
* Glue gun and hot-melt adhesive
* Fish line
Instructions:
Tear sheet/fabric squares to drape over the plastic-foam balls. Tie a ribbon bow around the "necks." Mark a face on the cover of each ball. If you like, hot-glue "Groucho" glasses and hair onto one head. Use fish line to hang each ghost.

Frightening Lampshade :
Dress up a plain white lampshade in trademark black and orange fringed paper and polka dots. Use double-sided tape instead of crafts glue if you plan to use the lampshade post-Halloween.