Index : Props and Decorations
Separate Pages - Skeletons
Ideas for Use in Black Light:
- from Bucky's
Boneyard - tips on the best ways to use black light, which bulbs
are best, which materials glow under them, and how to save money on
black light effects
Ideas for Fog Machine Projects:
- from
GotFog.com ... how to build a fog chiller to make your fog stay
closer to the ground ... making a swirling vortex effect ... fog from a
pumpkin ... adding strobe lights
- more fog chillers and tips can be found at
HauntedIllinois.com
Ideas for Building your own outdoor displays:
- DoomBuggy
Productions - this is a site that has "At Home Imagineering"
projects including the "Hatbox Ghost" (a man carrying a hatbox
... his head disappears at the same time that another head shows up in
the box), a ghostly bride, and ghost hitchhikers, along with lots of
pumpkin-related projects ... there's lots of other stuff there, too,
some of which could be adapted to fit a Halloween theme
- The
Witch and Her Cauldron ...
Witch
Crash ...
Little
Trick or Treater - from FamilyFun
Haunted House Props and displays:
Making Tombstones:
- Using styrofoam - (this is what I did last year) - buy a sheet of
styrofoam from your local craft or building supply store ... I've seen
it done with white foam that's one inch thick, but I used blue foam 1/4
inch thick and that worked, too ... cut it into a tombstone shape and
spray paint it with plain gray primer ... then use plack paint, or a
black paint marker, to write names, dates, etc on them
- Funny Names - for the first two tombstones I made, I just used funny
names that I made up - Eaton Wurms and Anita Shuvel ... you can have fun
coming up with your own names or take
a look at "The Name Game" for inspiration
- other ideas, including some from The Name Game ... Ima Goner, Al
B Back, Phil Matteleven, Kit Chinsink, Abby Stungmee, Lyn Gweenee,
Dan D Lyons, Bea Ware, Sam I Wuzz, Faye Kinnett, Lane Downe, Al
Dente
- Related ideas and tips can be found at
FamilyFun
Indoor Decorations by Room:
Bat Decorations:
Ghost Decorations:
Spider Decorations:
Other Ideas:
- Automatic
Prop Raiser
- this is a project from SmartHome.com that shows you how to use home
automation equipment to control and animate your props
- Bat
Cave Entrance - a Cave for kids to walk through - available at
Shindigz.com
- Eerie Entrance
- a cardboard insert that you use to temporarily replace your storm door
or screen ... not only does it transform your door into a Halloween
decoration, it has a pre-cut opening for you to use to give out candy
without having to keep opening the whole door over and over
- Using Motion
Sensors to control props, lights and displays - from
HauntedIllinois.com
- Wailing
Windows - this was found at a site called Halloween Headquarters,
and it's a way to transform the windows of your house into funny or
spooky faces
eBay Marketplace Searches:
Other Sources for Decoration to make:
More Places to Buy Halloween Decorations:
