Everyone is looking for something to do with the kids this year for Halloween outdoor decorations. As a family, get an old pair of pants and shirt, stuff with straw, and place on a stake or set it on a straw bale with the stake in the bale. Stick a pumpkin head on it and you got a ghoulish scarecrow!
Blow up some balloons and glue white or black gauze on them and hang them in trees as witches or ghosts. I know someone each year that dips his bare feet in red paint (washable paint) and leaves footprints up the sidewalk.
Ideas are endless like taking paper towel rolls and cutting eyes in them, placing a glow stick in the roll then hide them in the bushes to stare out. Using plywood to make gravestones or pallets for cages.
