America goes all out for pretty much every season and holiday it can get it's hands on. But the big scale, street wide everyone goes all in, really starts a month before Halloween and continues into Christmas. But it's not only houses you'll see decorated, it'll be business and attractions and it was so fun to be able to see all the pumpkins and displays while we were visiting the Detroit Zoo a couple of weeks ago.
Around the entire zoo were hundreds of carved pumpkins - just rows and lines of them everywhere. You could feel their eyes watching you. A short walk around the zoo was festively decorated with characters - a collection of movie stars, sport teams to computer games and TV shows all made from pumpkins which we believe were all made by local school children. Some of the design were really inventive and they were all incredibly fun to walk around during our zoo trip. . My favorite has to be that of the dinosaur - her eye lashes are to die for!
Have you seen any fun Halloween displays?
Oh wow, this looks amazing. Nothing fun where I am...elderly population UK town does not do Halloween!
ReplyDeleteYeah my hometown never did anything for Halloween and I noticed over the years less and less children coming around for trick or treating. My hometown just to do really big firework displays and then the council culled that as well as big Christmas decorations too. Grr.
Deleteawesome decorations! :D
ReplyDeleteEEE! The pumpkin animals are so cute! I love the Snoopy and Woodstock one the best!
ReplyDeleteThe Snoopy decorations are awesome aren't they?! I think they had the full cast there.
DeleteThat is really neat. People in our neighborhood start decorating for Halloween at the beginning of October but it's nothing to how much people in my old neighborhood used to do. Some people used to dig up their front yards to hide coffins and "dead bodies".
ReplyDeleteYeah there's some of that going on around were we live too, it's so fun how the US dresses their whole houses up and the gardens. Seen some great gravestone decorations in front gardens at times.
DeleteAw the Snoopy one!! Other than double taking at the odd person walking round with bloodied faces on the way home from work, I have hardly seen anything halloweeny outside the shops this year!
ReplyDeleteI love the Sesame Street display and the flamingos as well - think Big Bird looks a bit crazy/demented though! :-) x
ReplyDeleteThese people are incredible creative and talented. I would try to do something like this and end up with a pile of orange pumpkins. Yes, just a pile of orange pumpkins. I love the Snoopy one and the dinosaur!
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