What props should I use for our Scary Halloween Maze?

Question

we are taking like 5 to 8 pop-up tents and lineing them up in the street. then we take garbage bags and cutting one side to open them up all the way, then hagging them. we also string lights on the ceiling. oh I forgot we use twine, so we can hang the garbage bags, the lights and the props from, but you have to remember there are a lot of little kids in our subdivision that get extremely scared...

so could you help?

Answer 1

you should be the head on a platter

Answer 2

Well, first off start with some cheesecloth ghosts. A plastic skull can be used as a head and face, but since you're talking about little kids, you may either want to use something else or go with the skull. While there is a type of cheesecloth ghost where you harden the cheesecloth in a ghost shape, the last couple of years I've done one by strictly draping the cheesecloth over something and hanging it up so that it swings naturally in the breeze. Last year was the first with the skull and none of the little kids who visited were all that terrified by it. Course none of them really got all that close to it either.

Next, fake tombstones. Great little devices to help with the atmosphere, and if you get the ones you can write on then you can due cutesy little epiaths. Or maybe novel characters (I did Ichabod Crane, Lucy Westenra from Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula", and C. Auguste Dupin from Edgar Allen Poe's three mystery stories ("The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The Purloined Letter))

Naturally you should have some jack-o-lanterns. Also think of having some steaming cauldrons and tombstones.

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Answer 3

First things first. You should ditch the idea of trash bags. You said there will be lots of little kids. How bad would you feel if one got suffocated by a loose bag?

My friend's dorm hall in college did a haunted house that I helped out on. We got lots of large appliance boxes from a local dealer, and cut them up and made a huge maze. Parts of it that you had to crawl through. We painted as much of it black as we could, and used duct tape to hold it all together.
We had the typical wet spaghetti bowl. We also got some large plastic rats, and covered them with "slime". Hanging bats, and that sort of thing.
My part was hiding in a dark corner with my 35mm camera flash unit. When people crawled around my corner I would blast 'em. Scared 'em pretty good.
We had several different types of scary music playing at the same time. We kept the volume reasonable so that it overlapped in some places. You can get a variety of Halloween Cd's at Wal-Mart. My favorite though wasn't a Halloween tape, but the heavy metal band "Savatage". Their album "Hall of the Mountain King" has some real good stuff on it that can be creepy.
One thing that you need to keep in mind is that there should be a person available at all times to go in and retrieve the lost.
The most important thing though is to remember to try to have fun. That's what this is all about.

Answer 4

In one tent have a huge bowl of cold wet spaghetti noodles with lots of black olives in it........put that inside a box with a hole cut in front just big enough for someone to stick their hand into the bowl. Tell the children if they want to feel Monster Guts, stick their hands in ... "if they dare!!!" Paint the box in blacklight colors with different phrases (eeeeekk, eeeewwww, don't!!!, nasty!, etc) & put it under a blacklight so they glow. (keep wipes on hand so they can wipe off after that tent!!) Also, have another box to stick your hand in, but have someone on the other side with a variety of things for them to grab the kids hand with. You could use a plastic dish glove, a loofa, a plastic glove frozen with ice inside so they touch the cold hand from beyond the grave, have the other person wear a black satin glove so they can't be seen, but also if they shake hands with that it'll feel weird, twigs made into a hand shape so it feels like a skeleton, one of those massage mits that feels yucky with tentacles all over it, make a fake octopus tentacle, etc. Decorate that box very simply - just What's in Here? They won't be able to resist! Don't forget to have fans blowing across tubs of dry ice - & fog machines - they really give great atmosphere of chill, fog, spooky!! Hang fake spiders in the ceilings, just out of reach but still visible. Cover them with random swipes of blacklight paint so they glow, too. Lights everywhere. Tons of jack o'lanterns, all glowing fiercely!! Don't forget the spooky music cd - you have to have that playing!! Can I come to the party?! lol
That's all I can think of right at the moment - hope I've given you some good ideas to help!! Have fun!!

Answer 5

I had alot of fun at a friends church Halloween maze hiding on the floor an occasionally grabbing somone's ankles. You only do it every once in awhile so they don't expect it and you have to move to a different spot now and then to keep them guessing. It's scream worthy without being scary.

Answer 6

you have to put the fake spider webs - they aren't too scary for the little kids but sticky and scream worthy and lots of fun, and rubber spiders....
maybe squisy bubble wrap and heaps of rubber worms on the ground and rubber bugs to have to walk over - that could be funny and make cool popping sounds. You can buy big size bubble wrap from the post office
then it can be a bit fun but not too scary.
(if you put an alien in there the kids might not be scared, but I would - i'm so scared of them)