How to Give Trick-or-Treaters a Scare
Give those pesky trick-or-treaters something to scream about.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Spider Webbing
- Halloween Candles
- Halloween Decorations
- Halloween Light Sets
- Jack-o'-lanterns
- Masks
- Scary Sound Music
- Halloween Party Packs
- Glow-in-the-dark Stars
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Hang an artificial spiderweb or dangling string that trick-or-treaters have to walk into or through on the way to your door.
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Inflate balloons with helium and place a white plastic garbage bag over each balloon. Tie the bag at the "neck," and you have rustling ghosts. Add scary faces with a marker if desired.
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Play a tape or CD of scary sounds in the background.
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Have a person dressed like a scarecrow, ghost, witch or monster sit completely still in a chair by the front door. When trick-or-treaters least expect it, have the person "come alive" and lunge at them.
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Make your front yard a graveyard using Styrofoam cut into the shape of tombstones. Paint the tombstones gray, add scary "epitaphs" with a marking pen, and decorate with spiderwebs, plastic spiders and rubber bats or rats.
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Dress up as a mummy, witch, ghost or ghoul, and answer the door with a growl or howl.
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Paint your jack-o-lanterns white. Outline scary facial features in black paint. Put dry ice inside your carved pumpkins, along with a flashlight or other eerie light source.
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Tips & Warnings
Even though darkness creates an effective ambiance for scary things, be sure passing trick-or-treaters see enough exterior lights to realize your home is welcoming them.
Small children may be traumatized by things that are scary, especially if they come upon them unawares. Post a sign warning parents to keep very young trick-or-treaters away.
Make sure dry ice and flames are kept well away from where costumed children may be walking or standing.
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Comments
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cut a hole in the bottom of a brown paper lunch bag put your hand in the bottom of the bag when they reach in grab their hand and if they freak out slip your hand out secretly and ask them what's wrong or say happy Halloween and do a evil laugh :) good luck.
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hand out jesus propaganda, that'll scare em!
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heh I remeber when I was like 8 this lady dressed up like a crazed nurse coverd in blodd tryed to give us organs[liver and stake] and chased after us, this year I'm doing something like that and where going to have my friends dressed up as a crazy little girl coverd in blodd and a woman in a strait jacket and there going to jump out of the bushes and scare the kids..
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emiel
Oct 27, 2008
lol funny! heres a realy good one, just 2 years ago me and my dad put on a little "show" for the trick or treaters and since we live in a small neighborhood where everyone knows everyone else this has permanetly scared off the trick or treaters! try this! you will need 1) fake blood or red paint 2) 2, 3, or 4 people (we used 2) 3) lab coat or scary costumes 4) black sheet ok heres how it goes take the black sheet and hang it over any furniture in the enterance way, then take the fake blood or red paint and spill it on the frount portch or side walk (maby put some on your hands and drag them up and down the walks) dress up in the scary clothes and practice your screems! now for the fun when the trick or treaters start comming wait until they walk to the door and say "trick or treat" and have one or two people run out of the house screeming with another running after them have -
emiel
Oct 27, 2008
lol funny! heres a realy good one, just 2 years ago me and my dad put on a little "show" for the trick or treaters and since we live in a small neighborhood where everyone knows everyone else this has permanetly scared off the trick or treaters! try this! you will need 1) fake blood or red paint 2) 2, 3, or 4 people (we used 2) 3) lab coat or scary costumes 4) black sheet ok heres how it goes take the black sheet and hang it over any furniture in the enterance way, then take the fake blood or red paint and spill it on the frount portch or side walk (maby put some on your hands and drag them up and down the walks) dress up in the scary clothes and practice your screems! now for the fun when the trick or treaters start comming wait until they walk to the door and say "trick or treat" and have one or two people run out of the house screeming with another running after them have
