** I Need Some Halloween HELP! ***

Jeff Westover · #1 10-18-2008, 11:04 PM

For the first time in many years we have the opportunity to actually be home for Halloween (it's a long story). My 16 year old daughter, who just LOVES Halloween, wants to be involved in the family fun and has pinned me down on helping her make the "Tunnel of Doom".

We have about a ten foot portion of our walkway to our front porch that people have to walk through to get to the front door. Abby wants to make it an adventure for all the trick or treaters to get this.

Bear in mind -- I'm in Utah. There are more than 90 kids on my street alone. We're going to see HUNDREDS of kids on Halloween.

What should we put them through? I need help!!!

trackrebel · #2 10-19-2008, 01:02 AM

that sounds great...how about checking out some halloween episodes from Roseanne....

seriously...I´m sorry I can´t help...but I would love to see a vid of the tunnel

SparkleNana · #3 10-19-2008, 05:22 AM

My son and some of his friends did a big production one year. They started when it was really dark. One was lying on a blow-up mattress, pretending to be dead. He raised his arms and started moaning, after the kids had their candy. He was quiet before, so they didn't notice him - he was a few feet off the walkway.

Another was in the bushes by the front porch and had a strobe light, that he turned on when someone had just gotten their candy. They were all wearing black clothes, so they were hard to see. I think there were about 6 of them working together to be scary. They didn't start the scary stuff until after 7:30 - when the littlest kids had come and gone. And if they saw small children coming, they didn't scare them. Word got around fast, and there were big crowds of kids in the street, watching as each group got brave enough to approach the porch. People absolutely loved it, and talked about it for years.

They didn't have "things" that looked scary. It was the dark and them making scary sounds and using lights briefly. Oh, and they had a "scary soundtrack that they played loudly.

If you do this, have unbelievably large amounts of candy. Word gets around -- and everyone wants to come and see the show (and get candy).

Ms_Speedy_Elf · #4 10-19-2008, 05:32 AM

My boyfriend told me that one year some people that he knew had an "honor system" one Halloween . They sat the bowl of candy in the lap of a spooky stuffed critter with a note that said"One Piece Per Person" .When the person took more than one piece of candy that spooky "stuffed" critter wasn't stuffed any more ,as he grabbed their hand when they went back for second's .

elfworks · #5 10-19-2008, 06:18 AM

ms martha has some great ideas in this years halloween book. (send abby to the bookstore) and do you want to enclose the sidewalk, or leave it open? cuz when you said "tunnel" i was thinking enclosed which could be waaaaay cool but also kinda limiting but scary in its own way, iykwim. not enclosed gives you more haunted house options....

xox

Jeff Westover · #6 10-19-2008, 08:52 AM

Yes we want to enclose it. The porch is set back a way and the eaves of the house extend out about 15 feet, making a kind of shady area of the walk. I can easily build something to make it feel more closed it. She mentioned dry ice, warm dripping blood, screams, etc. But I wonder what else we should do? The strobe light sounds like a good idea. My son, who is 14, wants to be up on the roof with a bazooka squirt gun but that might be a bit over the top. We do have to worry about the little ones. But this is Utah -- where even teenagers trick or treat -- which means I may be out there with a squirt gun too.

MerryChristmasLydio · #7 10-19-2008, 08:54 AM

A bloody haunted barber shop with lots of fake blood squirting at the kids from ghostly barbers who were killed and stabbed by their own costumers by using scissors and razers!!!!

LOL!

NO! WAIT! Start out as a Haunted Bloody barber shop. Then go into things like a Haunted doll house of nightmares, then a bloody restaurant kitchen, then a ghostly hospital. YEAH! WHAT?!

elfworks · #8 10-19-2008, 08:55 AM

lots of groovy moss hanging from the trees and spider webs and things. as they walk thru the tunnel, they need to get the feeling that something is gonna leap out of the shadows and get them! you dont need anything graphic to acheive that.
can i come help?? im so jealous. this dopey retirement village we live in doesnt allow trick or treaters and i have to keep the deco to a minimum.

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