Inexpensive Prop Ideas for Your Halloween Front Porch

During the year we try to keep in mind the times of the year when we do some outside decorating. Halloween, Christmas in particular. Some times there are things we might have tossed in the trash that we keep in a special place for use as decorating props. Even if your porch is small you can liven it up a bit with these props.

Take old clothes and stuff dried leaves and straw into plastic bags which you put inside the old clothes to make a scarecrow. If you use the small plastic bags you bring home food from the supermarket it works great. The smaller bags allow you more flexibility of movement and poses for your scarecrow.

We like to have a tape deck small and well hidden on the porch that runs for 90 minutes at a time. We have lots of sounds we got from the internet. You can even coordinate the pose of your scarecrow with voices and sounds on the tape.

Have an old barrel? Make it look like one scare crow is dumping another, younger scarecrow or was that a trick or treat visitor, into the barrel head first?
This has been a favorite porch prop over the years and kids even ask where it is on years we do something else.

An old wash tub with the scarecrow holding an oar like he is stirring something in the tub looks good too. The tape can tell visitors to come closer; he needs another kid visitor to make his soup tasty.

We have an old iron wheel barrow we like to put upside down on the porch. The wheel squeaks when it turns and we tie a cord to it so we can pull and get the wheel to squeak as kids approach for candy.

Paper bags, grocery store type, with solar powered ball lights look very spooky on the porch. The scarecrow can tell visitors the lights are the spirits of the last ten trick or treaters that got caught doing tricks on the property.

An aluminum horse watering trough filled with water and packed with apples is a great prop. Kids can dunk for apples and get an extra candy prize if they get one.
It is a lot of fun when the kids will stop and take the time to try and get the apples.