How to Light a Halloween Graveyard
- 1). Spread string lights with black bulbs on the ground around your graveyard scene. Sprinkle a light layer of Spanish moss over the light strings. The moss will add to the creepy effect of the scene and cover the exposed cords, but the lights will shine through. Move the moss around to let more light show through, if necessary.
- 2). Position flood lamps to light specific areas of the graveyard scene. Add bulbs in various colors such as red, blue, purple and green to the lamps. Flooding the whole scene with light will destroy the dark ambiance. To avoid this, move the lamps a few feet away from the scene and point them off to the sides, so they cast shadows on your tombstones.
- 3). Place lanterns with votive candles on the ground at the base of a few of your tombstones. Alternatively, hang the lanterns in the scene from shepherd hooks.
- 4). Spray paint bamboo tiki torches black and stake them in the ground around the entrance or borders of the graveyard. Lay the torches on the ground on a paint tarp to spray them. Alternatively, search the Internet for Halloween-themed tiki torches.
- 5). Trail Halloween rope lights around the outside border of the graveyard scene or along a fence surrounding the scene. For an active effect, place a strobe light that comes with colored filters in the scene.