Create a Halloween Experience in Your Garage

by Andrea Hermitt | More from this Blogger

28 Sep 2009 11:25 PM

If you want to be known as the coolest Halloween House, or if you want an opportunity to get to meet your neighbors this year, you should plan to create a Halloween experience in your garage.

Your Halloween Experience can be a haunted house, a kid friendly environment, a chance to evangelize, or a two minute party for everyone that comes through. Here are some ideas you can use.

After cleaning out your garage make a maze. You can use stacked boxes or bins, stacked hay, or plywood on stands to make temporary walls. A maze in a small garage can be a simple horse shoe where they enter on one side and exit on the other. If your garage is wider, you can make a curvy maze or a W shape.

Once your maze is in place, you must decide how you will trick or treat those who enter. You can have scary moving creatures. You can have candy bowls with mechanical moving hands. You can have people in costumes asking riddles for prizes. You can tell a quick story, or play game. You can put in funny mirrors, or have lights go on and off to add to the creepy factor.

Decorate your haunted house or fun house with spider webs,balloons, dry ice, or autumn decorations. Add a kids jumper / cakewalk at the end of the entrance to give participants one last thrill.

Give out candy, pumpkins, toys, cute little notes, flash lights so they can be safe for the rest of the night.

If you live in a close knit neighborhood, encourage other families to create fun or haunted houses and have a competition for the coolest experience.

If you liked this you should also read my blogs at the homeschool blog, the parents blog, and the frugal blog. You can read my recent posts here.

Also Read:

Halloween, the Economy and Your Family

Kid-Friendly Halloween Decorations Using Acorn Squash

A Week's Worth of Simple Halloween Crafts

Decorating Pumpkins With Your Baby or Toddler

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Andrea Hermitt is a native New Yorker currently residing in GA. She has been married for over 16 years and has two teenage children.

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