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ABOUT HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS
For most of the 20th century, Halloween was primarily a
children's holiday for dressing up in costumes and collecting
candy. Today, Halloween is a holiday for all ages. With each
passing year, there seems to be a broader range of Halloween
decorations. As technology has developed, Halloween decorations
have come a long way from jack-o'-lanterns and black cat cutouts.
Most early Halloween decorations tended to be homemade. That
is the reason the jack-o'-lantern was one of the earliest
traditional Halloween decorations and why it continues to be a
must-have even today. A scarecrow is always relatively easy to
make and that is why so many
scarecrows were part of
Halloween up until local
farming lost prominence. The
rise of plastics in the 1960s
introduced the age of the
skeleton hanging in many
homes. It was the 1960s that
witnessed the first real
explosion
of
Halloween
decorations
beyond
the
traditional.
The type of Halloween decoration that a person picks depends on
the type of Halloween she wises to project. The days of Halloween
being only about scary creatures and characters are long gone.
Today's Halloween decorations run the gamut of pop culture. For
instance, it is entirely possible to decorate a house for Halloween
in a nonthreatening manner using Disney characters. Likewise, one
can find the middle ground between scary and nonthreatening by
looking to the "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween characters on
"The Simpsons."