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Last year we did a Hallowe'en party for my four year old. Had lots of fun. We did all or decorations ourselves.
I made tombstones for the front yard out of the 2" dense panel insulation. Just use a band saw or utility knife to cut the shapes and then use a utility knife to cut in the names, dates, other decorations. Use black paint to fill in the dates and stuff and then grey paint while the black is still a little wet to finish off the entire tombstone. A couple of wooden dowels in the bottom and you can set them up wherever in the yard.
I made paper mache heads and painted them green and strung them in the trees (one I made into a piņata and the kids had a blast whacking it and the rest of the heads out of the trees.
The main decorating inside the house was the sunroom windows which I did a spooky sunset outline by gluing tissue paper from red to orange to yellow to green (from sky to earth) on the outside. Then I used stick tack and stuck up a haunted house outline, some tombstones and some spooky clouds. I used a spotlight in the sunroom to illuminate the whole thing. It ended up working really well.
I also used tin cans and punched holes in them in the shape of spooky faces and then put candles inside as lanterns for the front step. I also used construction paper to make the door look like a giant mouth with big teeth.
Probably not all that scary for teens, but my son and I had a blast doing everything. We even made a couple more tombstones this year.
I will try to dig up some photos tonight.
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