You wouldn’t think that the words ‘Halloween’ and ‘Christmas Tree’ would go together but beyond the fact that these are both very popular decorating holidays, you’ll soon discover that idea of having a Halloween Christmas Tree in your home is becoming the new tradition and quite fashionable.
At first folks began decorating the outside of their house for Halloween by turning their front lawns into makeshift graveyards. You can buy pre-made tombstones at any Halloween store or create your own wooden cut outs. In an effort to expand on the Halloween decorating traditions, people moved up from the ‘graveyard’ to the nearby trees and bushes. Just like during the month of December, you can spruce your October outdoors with a version of a Halloween Christmas Tree. Pick any bush or shrub hang up plastic spiders and bats. Add some pulled about cotton to simulate cobwebs and you’ve got an instant Halloween Christmas tree.
Getting in on the action, a lot of Christmas light manufacturers have developed a special line of outdoor Halloween lights. These can be as simple as the same design of Christmas lights but instead of the traditional blue, red and green Halloween lights are strictly pumpkin orange or blood red. There are also plenty of strand lights in the shape of skulls, Jack-o-lanterns, skeletons and witches. Stringing up these types of lights will also turn any outdoor tree in to a Halloween Christmas Tree.
But lighting up your outdoors with Halloween themed lights isn’t your only option. There are now a line of genuine artificial Halloween Christmas trees made for the indoors. Take the traditional shape and color of a Christmas tree and swap out all the green needles for black needles. Add a string of orange lights and you have a Halloween Christmas tree.
Decorating your Halloween Christmas tree is only limited by what creepy things you can find. More and more companies are getting into the act by creating Halloween Christmas tree ornaments but you can simply hunt through your local Halloween store to find plenty of creepy things to hang on the black branches. Naturally the kids can get involved by making their own ornaments.
If you’re planning on throwing a party, then you definitely have to have a Halloween Christmas tree. And just like at Christmas you can invite your party goers to contribute their own ornaments. Now that you know it’s out there, can you really celebrate the holiday without a Halloween Christmas tree?