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Step 1
Now that you have your layout you want to choose a theme for each room. There are two ways to theme you haunt you can either make a theme for the entire haunt and make every room go along with the theme or use the freestyle method and make each room a different theme.
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Step 2
For themed haunts first thing first decide the theme of your haunt. There are many themes to choose from such as Pirates, clowns/circus, haunted manor, medieval, insane asylum, Dracula’s castle/vampires, alien/military, prison, and more. That is part of the fun of choosing a theme is coming up with your own themes. For a themed haunt you can make up a story line and use each room to tell a different part of the story throughout the haunt.
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Step 3
Once your theme is chosen for the haunt decide what each room is going to be. Remember to keep the theme consistent. If you are doing a haunted manor theme don’t have aliens half way through. For a haunted Manor theme a few room ideas are: library, parlor, bloody kitchen, haunted bedroom, mad scientist, bathroom scene, and even a hall way with clothes on both sides for a closet theme. Make sure you stay on topic with the theme and storyline, for those of you using a storyline.
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Step 4
The other method to theme your haunt is the freestyle method. This is where you have each room a different theme and don’t stick to a storyline. You can have a few rooms with an alien theme and then go into a forest or graveyard theme, and then into an Egyptian themed room. I prefer freestyle better. I like building the different themes and seeing different scenes throughout the haunt. It is hard to make vampires and aliens fit together in a themed haunt. I do however transition the rooms a little bit so it isn’t to off the wall. I don’t go straight from aliens to pirates I slowly work my way there using themes that can fit with either one.
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Step 5
Scenes used to fill in space and not be specific themes I like to call transition rooms. For example a long dark hallway lit only by strobe lights can fit into any haunt. This is a quick easy way to fill up space and slowly work from one theme to another.
