Halloween Graveyard Scene, Quick and Cheap

Halloween props don't have to cost an arm and a leg. Using the materials laying around your house, or in your trash create your own cost effective halloween props.

Materials used

Scrap wood. ( floorboards in my case)

packaging material

hot glue gun

stainless steel wire

wire cutter

Use your imagination, tombstones can easily be made from materials such as cardboard, Styrofoam, and shipping materials. In the image above I spray painted a piece of shipping material that resembled a cross.

Use the wire cutter to snip small lengths of wire around 3 inches. Glue the wires to the base of the tombstones you make. These will keep the tombstones in place once you place them outside on the lawn.

I quickly put together a number of crosses using a few lengths of leftover floorboard that I had found in the basement. Any kind of wood scraps will work, use what's available to you.

First break off a few pieces around 2-3 feet in length for the vertical section. I just broke them over my knee.

Next break off an equal number but this time slightly shorter, 1-1.5 feet

Glue the pieces perpendicular to one another. the long section vertical and the short piece horizontal, roughly 1/3 of the way down from the top of the long piece.

Once the pieces are glued together cut a few pieces of wire around 3-4 inches and glue them in pairs to the bottoms of the crosses. These will anchor the crosses into your lawn.

Covering the graveyard in spider Web, perching a bird on a cross, or placing fingers / bones reaching out of the ground are quick and easy ways to enhance your graveyard scene.