Haunted houses, bats, spirits and goblins everywhere! Halloween is an enjoyable time of year for young children and grown ups alike. Do you want some ideas for decorating your house for all hallows eve? Try these simple and fun and economical Halloween decor ideas.

Entryway: The entryway to your house is the first impression people get of your residence. All too often we forget about how much impact this can have when decorating for the seasons.

Halloween Display. Make the most of it by creating a simple display of Halloween statuary set on a small table covered with a black or orange tablecloth. The 4 to six inch collectible figurines are affordable enough to even use outdoors if you have enough room for a compact table by your door. Indoors, you can go with this same strategy, even adding scary lights and garlands readily available at dollar and discount stores.

Animated Items. Animated Halloween figures can add immediate festivity to a dull entry table. These objects can move, have sound, and some are even motion activated. A smart way to make your entry one to remember! With growing popularity, these items are now showing up in dollar and discount stores.

Living Room/Family Room: To dress up the rooms where your family spends the most time, use most of your Halloween decor ideas in these rooms.

Figurine Display. Use your mantle, a wall shelf, of even your coffee table to show an assortment of inexpensive Halloween figurines. Mantles are normally ignored until Christmas, but fireplaces are a great staging area for many seasonal displays.

Halloween Window Curtain Tie-Backs. To add a creepy hint to your room, add a garland of skeleton heads as tie-backs to your drapes. These garlands are available at most dollar stores and one garland can be cut into two pieces to use on a pair of curtains, you can use another garland across the top for a little added Halloween fun.

Outside: Only the Christmas season surpasses Halloween when it comes to outside decorations. Be the talk of the neighborhood with decorations that outdo the expected jack-o-lanterns.

Gravestones. Transform your yard into a graveyard with tombstones made from low-cost foam board and just a little paint. Thinner than the ones you are able to buy in shops, you could individualize these for your family (rather morbid), your favorite horror film characters, or with amusing inscriptions.

Animated Objects. Add just a little of the surprising with animated Halloween items in close proximity to your entry way. These items can move or talk, but keep in mind that smaller children are frequently scared by these. Since gaining popularity in the past few years, these things are relatively low-cost and readily available on the web and in most stores throughout the Halloween period.

Window Dressings. Turn your windows into Halloween hallmarks with simple black poster board and just a little ingenuity. Cut out designs of bats, ghouls, and other Halloween figures (jack-o-lantern carving kits have outstanding templates) from a full sheet of poster board. Tape the sheet over the inside of your windows, when you turn your lighting on inside, they illuminate the cut out to show your scary works of art to people going by.

These tips will help you get started off on your Halloween decorating, get your creative juices flowing and find out what spooky things you are able to design.