Outdoor Cemetery Graveyard Entrance
Set the stage before your guests even step foot inside by transforming your front yard into an ancient, decaying cemetery. Craft realistic tombstones out of sheets of styrofoam. Cut them into classic arched shapes, distress the edges with a soldering iron or serrated knife, and paint them with textured gray stone paint. Use black paint to carve out humorous or spooky names and epitaphs like “R.I.P.” or “Freddie’s Back.”
Line your walkway with low-lying fog from a fog machine, and scatter dead leaves, twigs, and plastic skeleton bones rising from the grass to look like shallow graves. Place a low-wattage blue or green spotlight on the ground, pointing up at the tombstones to cast long, dramatic shadows across your lawn. This immersive outdoor display builds anticipation and guarantees your guests are fully in the Halloween spirit before they even knock on your door.
