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
• Masks

1. Hang an artificial spiderweb or dangling string that trick-or-treaters have to walk into or through on the way to your door.

2. 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.

3. Play a tape or CD of scary sounds in the background.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Dress up as a mummy, witch, ghost or ghoul, and answer the door with a growl or howl.

7. 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.

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.

[emiel]

on 10/27/2008 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

on 7/1/2006 In Britain it is traditional that 'trick or treaters' (known here as guisers), have to work for their sweets. The kids have to perform a 'party piece', a joke or song usually.

To make the process more fun for us, my family came up with The Master. We would decorate the living room with candles, bones, animal horns, and anatomy books. Someone would be The Master and dress in a black robe (so that you can't see who it is, they also wear a bug net). I would be dressed in a lab coat, messed up hair and scars, and was The Master's assistant (only the assistant did the talking, or screaming). I would run at the kids at the door, saying that they are here to please The Master, and that they would not be allowed to leave until they pleased The Master.

Some of the older kids start giggling at this, because they are not used to this situation (Halloween isn't as big over here). So, I shout and scream at the older kids, which usually scares them.

We have it so that The Master will always be pleased. But if the kids don't make any effort, or are older, it might take a couple of attempts.

We also get the parents to take part. They enjoy it just as much. We have had kids that we have never met before phoning cousins and friends and telling them to come to our house.

on 12/30/2005 The best Halloween prank I have seen was as follows:

My friend arranged a lawn chair out in the middle of the lawn with a very bright light shinning down on it. He dressed in an old pair of coveralls. He wore a hat, sunglasses, gloves and oversize boots.

They had made a goopy makeup that was green and had a bunch of oatmeal in it. It was lumpy and had it smeared uniformly all over his face and neck.

He would sit perfectly still in the chair, as if he were a stand-up dummy laid back on the lawn chair. He kept his legs too straight and his arms also. He even kept his hands too flat and straight inside the oversize gloves.

He would remain absolutely motionless and the kids walking up the driveway could not help but see him. Every batch of kids would gather around the dummy under the bright light, examine him and inevitably dismiss him.

After they had dismissed the dummy and were walking away he would silently get up and follow them and he never said a word. Sometimes they would get through with all the trick or treating at the door before they turned around.

on 11/22/2005 We hid a loudspeaker in the bushes near the front door. The speaker was connected to a microphone and a voice distortion effect device. When the kids rang at the door, they would hear a very deep, very creepy voice from behind them asking them for their business. Almost all the kids got scared, some even broke and ran.

on 11/22/2005 Take a chainsaw and remove the chain. You can rev it and run at trick-or-treaters without the risk of actually slicing someone to pieces. You can even get a friend to play victim to you, and you can "chop them up."