Can anyone help me with easy diy haunted house props?

Question

Making a haunted house for ages 5-12. We want to scare them real good. Space is small and $$$ is limited. Any ideas?

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Just to let alberto martinez know diy stands for Do It Yourself!

Answer 1

Buy black tulle (less than $1.00/yd) to cover your walls. Add the fake spider webs over the top. Otherwise, get cheap black plastic trash bags, which you can cut open and cover your walls with. Shred them into streamers to cover doorways, and if you make enough layers of them they will block out the lights. This is great for people to hide behind because it is opaque, and it's scary to enter through because of the light texture.

Have things hang from the ceiling on fishing line, like spiders of rubber bats. If it's at a level that people will walk into, it will be startling. Also, have things near the floor to brush against ankles as people walk through a room. Dark feather or anything else malleable and soft will startle anyone with exposed ankles.

If no one has asthma, buy a fog machine or get some dry ice (dry ice is pretty cheap) to obscure the room and add mystery.

If you can afford to get animated props to jump out or that are motion/sound activated, get some of those. Otherwise, have people dressed up in costumes ready to jump out at people and give them a fright.

Answer 2

Liked muah's idea, especially the part about the chainsaws!
I know when I was a kid the neighbors had a dummy sitting on the porch for about three days before Halloween night, everyone was used to it, but that night the guy was in the costume with the bowl of candy in his lap. Scared the pants off me!

Answer 3

cover the entrance with black cloth, and also any windows, use dry ice or smoke machines to make it hard to see. use black lights and strobe lights as your only light. its also good to hang bloody things or bones from the ceiling. get a VERY loud speaker and play some spooky noises, or if you have access to a microphone have someone tell the little kids to come in. once the little kids make it through the darkness , if their already not scared enough have a witch waiting vigilantly still holding a bowl of candy and she can scare them. its also fun to chase kids around outside with chainsaws with no chains

Answer 4

When we were kids we always used peeled grapes for eyeballs and cold spaghetti noodles for "guts"...things you had to feel in the dark. We also made dead bodies out of clothes stuffed with other clothes. Simple, but we thought it was scary. You can buy fog machines and fog solution at most discount stores (Wal-Mart, Fred Meyer). Good luck! =)

Answer 5

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