I need to make a haunted house for the first graders and I need some easy and cheap ideas!?

Answer 1

Go to an Appliance Specialty shop or Home Depot and get the largest appliance boxes you can find. Tell them ahead and they will probably save them for you.
Those appliance boxes are strong and sturdy.
You can then cut out the windows & doors, paint them black and make them spooky with those spider web decorations.
Attach them together by making small holes and securing them together with rope.

Answer 2

Cut a piece of a garbage bag big enough to fit your doorway and hang it up coving the entrance. Cut thin strips in the plastic from the bottom going up, stopping a few inches before you get to the top. People can now pass through your new doorway to get to the other room
Hang black thread in a door way. What you want this effect to accomplish is to make think they are walking into cobwebs. They should not be able to see the black thread, but should feel it rub against them when they walk through a doorway.
Try to get your hands on some large appliance boxes. You can use these for a number of things. We used Exacto knifes and made a small crypt/chamber complete with windows and a barred door. You can use them to make coffins, tombstones, fake walls, or anything else you can dream up
Cut bat shapes out of black paper hang them from your ceiling using black thread or fishing line. You can also try to fashion a larger bat out of a black garbage bag
Using tombstones, you can create what looks like a fresh grave by over turning the ground a little around it. If you really want to dig, make a hole big enough for someone to fit inside. Cover the hole with cardboard. Hide the cardboard under a pile of leaves or a light layer of dirt. An 'actor' can hide inside and pop out when needed!

Answer 3

okay, cold boiled spaghetti in a bowl for "guts" and peeled grapes in a bowl for "eyes" are always good for a chill. Just block a room off in a maze pattern, sheets are good, you can hang them easily. Send the kids through the maze with different things to see/touch, etc, like the bowls of spaghetti and grapes (make sure they are told to close their eyes, at least one person dressed semi-scarily to chase them a short distance through the maze, a CD of Halloween sounds to make it creepy (you can pick those up at Wal Mart or Target...), perhaps a "graveyard" section with cardboard headstones and a fake hand sticking up out of one. 3-4 things in the room are likely enough along with the "monster" to scare them a bit. I LOVE Halloween and my sister and I always used to make our own haunted houses. I'm just glad to see a school that isn't so "politically correct" that they haven't cut out Halloween and made it into a bland "Harvest Festival"!

Answer 4

Take boxes and cut a hole for them to stick their hands into. Use different food for body parts (i.e.- peeled grapes for eyes spagetti for "guts"). Tape together a bunch of cardboard boxes (big enough for them to crawl through) for tunnels and put fake cobwebs in there. Strobe lights and dry ice are always fun. Good luck!

Answer 5

get a curtian and sranngle them a bit,be a zombie and scare them haf to death!!!!!!!!!!!LOL