Extraordinary is such a great word and a really great word for writing about campy pink flamingo lawn ornaments made over in the Halloween style.
Pink flamingos aren't just for Christmas, but they are so much fun wearing those Santa hats. Take the flamingo lawn ornament idea and bring it to Halloween. I found these Halloween flamingo lawn ornaments and had to share them for everyone to get the idea. What a lot of fun to turn something already fun into something less than normal and even more fun?
Do you usually decorate outside for Halloween? I have saved up most of my decorating for Christmas but Halloween is actually the more fun holiday. Not so much family and traditions are expected for Halloween. So there is opportunity for change, creativity and odd new ideas. Take the chance and do something unusual, after all, unusual is part of the day for Halloween.
Keep Things Simple with a Few Creepy Flamingos on your Front Yard
Start with some skeleton, zombie or ghoulish looking flamingos and work your way along to adding ghosts made from old sheets (you can pick up old sheets pretty cheap at the thrift store). Get markers, colours like red will show up well, and draw on your ghosts. Give them faces, of course, but carry on from there. Give them gore and a violent past drawn all over them. Hang your ghosts from trees or anything else that gives them some chance to catch a breeze outside.
Use old Halloween costumes which you can recycle from your own family or pick up cheap at thrift stores and dollar stores. An old costume, like a witch, vampire, and Frankenstein monster can be held up with clothes hangers and displayed pinned together to look like someone is wearing the outfit. Pin a hat at the top of the main outfit, add gloves and slippers (boots would be too heavy) at the bottom. If you have a few masks stick them with the hat to look like a face. Of course, you don't need to stick with the traditional Halloween characters, recycle Princess costumes, fairies, farm animals and anything else you find and get creative ideas for.
The Halloween lawn flamingos are just a great place to start your whole Halloween outside empire. Grow it with new ideas each year. Build a cemetery, turn the whole thing into a Halloween maze for trick-or-treaters to walk through before they can get to your door.
Or, keep things simple with a few flamingos - enough to show you have the Halloween spirit and a sense of humour.
Halloween is a great time to play with things, especially anything you can share and scare others with. Keep in mind, the public includes small children (unless you have a way to control access and block the view) so don't get too scary for the little people who will be out there too.