How to Make a Garage Scary for Halloween
Whether you're decorating for a Halloween party or simply want to create a haunted house to scare trick or treaters, turn your garage into seasonal wonderland of cool touches and spooky surprises. Consider these sights, sounds and effects when designing your ghoulish garage.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Ground and wall covering
- Halloween props
- Strobe or black light
- Music or sound effects
- Fog machine
- Costumes
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Add wall and ground coverings to conceal the objects in and around your garage. Black torn fabric, aged netting or ragged burlap will set the mood better than the sight of bright green grass, vibrant flowers or tools and sporting equipment. (See Resources.)
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Arrange spooky props like tombstones and coffins, cobwebs, dripping blood, dead flowers, old candelabras, haunted paintings and animatronic bats, skeletons and zombies.
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Illuminate the scene and any moving or glowing decorations with a strobe light or black light. The odd lighting will also keep your guests off kilter and make them think the decorations are even spookier. (See Resources.)
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Play music to set the tone. Try compact discs of horror movie soundtracks, eerie sound effects or ghost stories. You can also lighten the mood by playing classic Halloween songs like, "Monster Mash." (See Resources.)
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Make the garage moody with a fog machine. Use a light rolling fog to cover the ground as a cool effect or create dense clouds that the guests will have to walk through to discover what scary decorations await them on the other side. (See Resources.)
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Design costumes for you and your family members that match the theme of your garage. If it looks like a graveyard, have everyone dress as zombies, ghosts or the grim reaper, for example.
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Tips & Warnings
Consider the age groups of the people who will be visiting your Halloween garage. Although you want it to be scary, opt for slightly spooky instead of shocking horror if you expect a lot of children. You want your guests to be entertained, not traumatized.
