• Decorate your front porch to display your Halloween spirit.autumn halloween front porch image by palms from Fotolia.com
  
  A front porch offers ample space to place Halloween decorations. Instead of allowing your front porch to sit bare and undecorated during Halloween, select a theme and decorate it. Selecting a theme for your front porch creates a unified, balanced appearance. You do not need any special skills to decorate a front porch for Halloween.
  
  

Spiders and Cobwebs

• Decorate your front porch with spiders and cobwebs. You can purchase artificial cobwebs at a department store, craft store or hobby store during Halloween. Secure the cobweb material to your front porch with either staples or tape. Attach plastic spiders randomly on the cobweb material to make them look as if they are crawling all over it. Hang Halloween spider-themed lights to the porch as this illuminates your decorations at night. You may wish to add a large plastic spider to the floor on your front porch for an added decorative item.
  
  

Ghosts

• Create a ghostly front porch for Halloween by decorating your porch with a variety of different ghosts. You may wish to create ghosts form old white sheets and large Styrofoam balls as the head. Tie the sheet under the Styrofoam ball to create a face on the ghost. Hang the ghosts all around your front porch with string and hooks or staples. If you purchase decorative ghosts to decorate your porch with, hang them in the same manner as you would for homemade ghosts. For an added decorative item, incorporate a strobe light. The strobe light during the evening creates an illusion of flying ghosts.
  
  

Grave Yard

• Decorate your front porch to resemble a haunted graveyard complete with fog. Purchase decorative tombstones, a fog machine, Halloween lights and skeletons at a party store, hobby store or department store. Place the fog machine out of the view of people -- for example, in a back corner -- and set the tombstones randomly around the front porch. Hang the skeletons from hooks and string randomly on the front porch. Attach the Halloween lights to the porch. During the evening a fog machine will create a haunted graveyard appearance.
  
  

Masked Pumpkins

• Line your front porch with masked pumpkins to decorate it for Halloween. Create a variety of different style masks from black construction paper, making sure to cut out the eyes. Attach the masks to pumpkins with small sewing pins that insert into the pumpkin and provide a ball to hold onto while removing them. Light a candle in each pumpkin during the evening.