Halloween photo zone: design ideas
Halloween is gradually becoming quite popular in our country. Children and young people especially love him. Although, of course, it is not yet as popular as, for example, in America or Europe, many children still have a desire to decorate a room or themselves with ugly makeup and decor items, and even more so to capture it all in photographs.
How can you arrange?
There are many tips for decorating your home for Halloween. The process always involves not only adults, but also the main fans of the event - children, so the design is usually fun and amicable. An apartment in the style of this holiday becomes a real photo zone with many locations for vivid photos. Of course, it is difficult to call such photos joyful and kind, because the main task is to make the room scary and intimidating. And this requires imagination.
It is worth noting that not all decor items need to be made with your own hands. Let's say the attributes for a holiday can also be used to organize a Halloween photo zone in an apartment.
Consider the basic materials that are used to equip a photo zone in an apartment.
- Balloons. By color, it is better to choose those associated with this holiday. These can be balls of bright orange color, which symbolize a pumpkin, black or gray. You can make a pumpkin from an orange ball, you just need to tie the ball with twine and tighten it a little.
- Foliage. Since this event takes place in late autumn, it is automatically associated with autumn. Therefore, the presence of foliage is understandable. But if there are no living leaves at hand, then artificial analogues are quite suitable. You can cut them yourself from colored paper.
- Guipure. Guipure fabric perfectly imitates cobwebs. This is another attribute that you definitely can't do without. If such a tissue is not at hand, then a regular bandage will do.
- Pumpkin. Pumpkins are the main attribute of the holiday. They can be used in any quantity and placed in various places. You can cut out various kinds of shapes from them, insert a candle inside and you will get an interesting Halloween-style photo zone.
- Broom or broom. They will also decorate the photo zone well.
Best ideas
If we talk about what ideas for a Halloween photo zone are the best, of course, these are the ones that we managed to implement with our own hands. For creation, completely different objects are used, ranging from ordinary balls, colored paper, fabrics, pumpkins or foliage, to special designs that are created by experienced designers.
But you can also create exclusive decor items yourself. For example, if ordinary balloons are used as attributes for a photo shoot, then you can simply draw various grimaces on them, and it will already turn out original and interesting. But it is important to understand that such balls will look good on their own, and not in the form of an arch. But an arch made of balls without a grimace will just perfectly fit into such an interior.
If you decide to use a chalk or slate board as a background, then you can draw pumpkins, ghosts, scary faces or spiders of any size on it. In the case when such a board is not at hand, you can use a regular Whatman paper. Any dark image that matches the given theme is printed on it. Let's say it can be a lost city or a scary creature. Well, or a cemetery.
You can also use paper as a decoration for your home. Rather, initially cut out bats or spiders from it. After that, the correct lighting should be installed, and the decorations will begin to cast shadows on the wall or ceiling.
Thus, not only one specific area will be decorated, but the whole room. The choice of photographing locations is increasing
For photo shoots, you can also use a banner with cutouts for the face. To do this, just select any thematic picture and print it. Let's say with the heroes of your favorite cartoon horror story. This decor will be interesting for both children and parents.
Various hats and other accessories are often used as attributes. This can be, for example:
- hat;
- mask;
- smile on a stick;
- stuffed raven in the form of a hat.
The result is not only creative but also fun. And if you supplement the image with a specific outfit, then beautiful photos are guaranteed. Of course, for young people, and for older people, it is important that the house is decorated not only from the inside, but also from the outside. Therefore, you should definitely decorate the porch of the house and the surrounding area. By the way, in America there are even competitions of this kind between residents of the same quarter.
For example, in order to make the holiday more successful, many people use treats as a decoration. And after the photo session is over, you can all treat yourself to goodies.
For adults
To decorate a room or a separate photo zone for adults, you can use the same attributes as for children. It is only necessary to supplement them a little. For example, you can make a Jack lamp out of a pumpkin. It is done quite simply, you just need to cut out the elements of the face - the eyes and mouth. And insert a candle inside. Better, of course, to cut out a distorted grimace, then the pumpkin looks more interesting. For the more creative, there is another pumpkin idea. You can decorate it with various patterns.
For adults, a photo zone decorated with artificial spider webs is also suitable. You can simply hang it around the room. You can also use it to decorate an outfit. And of course, various kinds of treats. It can be both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks in the form of blood, various potions or drugs.And if such drinks are served in devices made in the form of a flask, a pumpkin, then it will turn out to be at the same time an eerie and terrible sight. You can also cook edible attributes in the form of body limbs, spiders, or any monsters. In this case, the worse it turns out, the better.
For kids
If we talk about which version of the photo zone to use for children at school, then it is important to take into account that the photos will mainly be taken collectively. Therefore, decorative elements should fit into the overall photo. In this case, pumpkins of different sizes, costumes for children in the form of holiday heroes, decorated with artificial spider webs, spiders, vampire fangs and other paraphernalia, will look very good. You can also cut a witch, vampire or spider out of colored paper and decorate the wall with figures. It is better to use black colored paper for this purpose. Of course, you shouldn't forget about the treats. After all, any children's party should be accompanied by a sweet table.
You can make a Halloween-themed dessert. Let's say, in the form of brains, limbs of the body and any other objects of a similar theme. You can also apply makeup. Children are very fond of such entertainment. And professional Halloween makeup is especially bright. For example, make blood streaks on the body, marks from an ax blow, bites and much more. It all depends on the imagination and skills of the make-up artist.
Well, as without children's costumes. For the little ones, you can make a fabric costume in the shape of a pumpkin or a vampire outfit. Children really like all kinds of carnivals, and they will gladly pose for photos in similar outfits.
Beautiful examples
There are tons of beautiful examples of how to quickly and easily make a photo zone to celebrate Halloween. Moreover, most of the options are easily made from scrap materials.
- For example, a black balloon arch combined with a spider web made of cotton wool creates a true Halloween atmosphere.
- Just a spider web also looks great. It is very easy to make it from cotton wool. You can supplement such a photo zone with a pumpkin or spiders. Spiders can be easily knitted or made from the same cotton wool and then dyed black. You can also use plastic products, ready-made spiders are easy to find in special stores.
- Balloons are considered a universal tool for creating a photo zone. Moreover, you can use balls of different colors and sizes. Let's say a garland of orange balloons decorates a room perfectly. Especially if you draw various kinds of grimaces on such balls.
- And, of course, where without pumpkins. There should be a lot of them. Pumpkins with a candle inside look good. And the worse the grimace, the better. The size of the lamp is not particularly important here, the main thing is that the grimace is clearly cut out.
- You can also make a balloon pumpkin. And draw a grimace with a marker. This attribute goes well with any other decor.
In general, there are many ways to create a photo zone for Halloween. The main thing is that it should be bright and create pleasant emotions for everyone present.