Prop Ideas
In 2003, a small group of us decided to start a Haunted Trail at our local camp. Most of us had no experience in doing this, so we started researching the internet looking for ideas for scenes that would be appropriate for our event.
What we found was an enormous amount of information about the Halloween Haunt events. Many of the props and scenes found were not appropriate for us, but some of the ideas of how these props were built were helpful, or some of the ideas were adaptable to our event. We decided to start saving these ideas for future Haunted Trails. While bookmarking the original sites from which these ideas were found, it was soon discovered when a site went down, the idea was lost. We then started to save the ideas, and convert them to a .pdf file, thus saving the idea for our use forever.
This list is a result of many years of searching for prop ideas, plans, instructions, etc. I have tried to keep the source of where these were found and credit the author where possible. I would suggest you check out the originating websites for any updates to their plans.
Our intent is not to take credit for these ideas, but to provide a resource for our staff to search for ideas in one convenient place for future years events.
The ideas presented here are not to suggest we should add these to our event, but to spur on ideas of how things can be done or done better.
Simply click on the link below to see the .pdf file. If you find a dead link, please send us an email to advise us, we will fix it asap.
Directory (click on the link below to go to the category below)
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Air Cannon | Back to top | ||
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Air Cannon Plans |
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Air Cannon for $25 | X | Build an air cannon for $25 | |
Air Cannon-2 | X | Build this air powered device to blow air | |
Air Cannon, $20 | X | Build this air cannon for $20 - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
Air Cannon-Concussion Cannon | X | Another inexpensive method of building an Air Cannon - - - - | Video |
Air Cannon, Mega Zooka | X | Build this Mega Air Cannon cheaply | |
Civil War Cannon | X | Realistic Looking Air and Fog Cannon - - - - - - - - | Video |
Pirate Cannon | X | Diagrams for building a pirate cannon that smokes | |
Animated Props | Back to top | ||
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There are many ways to mount servos in a skull for animation |
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Animated Ghosts | X | Ghosts rotating around a tombstone | |
Animated Ghosts 2 | X | Another way to hang this animated prop | |
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Brief Description of how this prop works |
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Animated Witch |
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Animatronic Skull | X | Make a cheap animatronic skull from spare parts | |
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Instructions about using servos to build animated props |
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Goblin will lift and fall several feet while swinging side-to-side. |
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Boneyard BBQ | X | Roasting a Skeleton on a spit | |
Build Your Own Mouth Animation | L | Instructions for building mouth animations | |
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Man stands and moves arm to |
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Corpse, Animated Groundbreaker | X | Animated Groundbreaker Corpse | |
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3 axis movement using a pumpkin as the head |
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This prop is remotely controlled |
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Ceiling with spikes in, starts to |
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Make a set of dancing skeletons for window display - - - |
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Build this using a fan motor and PVC Pipe |
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Flailer | X | Body with Kicking Legs | |
Floating Lantern | X | Lantern appears to be floating in the Grave Yard | |
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Make this vicious dog from a
reindeer
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Pair of evil witches flying around Glenda, the good witch - - |
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This fortune teller is really strange and creepy - - - - - - |
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Video explaining how this prop was
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PVC Frame Body with an oscillating
fan motor |
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Gate Keeper | X | Gate Keeper with arm motion | |
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Build a flying ghost projector - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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A motorized zombie escaping from a grave - - - - - - - |
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Make this using a skull, PVC, and
a massager |
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Animated prop based on the4-bar |
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Spooky figure playing eerie organ
music |
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Motorized hangman using a wiper |
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A tree that has Bluckies hanging
from it, and is animated. |
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Make this hangman from a Dancing
Santa. |
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Animated PVC Body trying to thumb a ride |
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An illusion where books slide in and out at random |
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Dog House with a mad dog that pops out - - - - - - - - |
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Motorized rocking chair that appears to rock on its own |
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Making a body head turn and
trigger sound at the same time |
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Mayor raises arms, turns head 180
deg. To show a new face |
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Three Ghosts appearing to hitchhike with thumbs moving |
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Kicking Legs | X | Hanging Legs from tree and they are kicking - - - - - - | Video #1 #2 |
Kicking Legs-Lawnmower | X | Flailing legs under a lawn mower - - - - - - - - - - - | Video #1 #2 |
Kicking Witch Legs | X | Witch legs sticking out of the chimney, kicking up and down | |
Leaping Loafer | X | Construction Details and Pictures | Video Other Idea |
Lynching - Motorized Hangman | X | Motorized Hanging man- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
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Make an animated prop using a floor fan and mask |
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Animated head prop that moves back and forth |
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Meteorite | X | Build this prop that has moving parts and pulsating lights | |
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This is a simple project to build |
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Box Lid shakes as if monster is trying to escape |
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Pictorial instructions of how to make this prop |
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Monster in a Box Made Easy | X | Easy version of this prop - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
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Quick and easy version of this classic prop |
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“Monster in a box” concept - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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Coffin opens, skeleton sits up & motions to people |
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Opening Tombstone | X | Tombstone Opening so corpse can try to escape | |
Pirate Ship Steering Wheel | X | Easy prop to make | |
Possessed Dresser | X | Dresser drawers moving by them selves - - - - - - - - | Video |
Prop Head Movement | X | Build this frame body to incorporate head movement | |
Rat Feast 1 | X | Animated Rats gnawing on a severed arm | |
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Brief description of this prop and
how it was built |
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Rats, Feeding Frenzy | X | Animated rats chewing on a leg - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
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Rig a chair to rock using a wiper motor |
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Witch rocking in a chair and head moves |
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Brief description of how this madman was made |
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Head in a barrel moves back and forth, scanning the area |
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Convert a massager into this awesome prop |
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Simple Blucky Animation | X | Animate your Blucky Skeleton - - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
Singing Pumpkin Guts | L | Schematic for controller operating prop | |
Skeleton, Animatronic-How to | X | Build this skeleton that you control - - - - - - - - - - | Slider Diagram |
Skeleton Head Rotate | X | Build this motorized skeleton - - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
Toktorill | X | Motorized Torture Wheel | |
Trash Can Trauma | X | Pop-Up out of a trash can | |
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Vortex type tunnel construction details |
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Making a figurine from a vacuum cleaner |
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Vortex Tunnel How To | X | Build a Vortex Tunnel that rotates around the people | |
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Demons are summoned by motion detectors - - - - - - |
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Simple animated prop with good instructions |
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Animated Props - Floating | Back to top | ||
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Candleabra appears to float in mid-air |
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Animated Props - Flying Crank Ghost | Back to top | ||
Animated Ghost | X | Compact Drive unit is featured with this design | |
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FCG system to run 3 ghosts at once |
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A spider using the Flying Crank Ghost mechanism - - - - |
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Very detailed instructions of how to build |
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Guide of what not to do in building |
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Animatronics | Back to top | ||
Animatronic Zombie | X | Building a corpse that is trying to leave the grave | |
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Animated Body dressed in Armor - - - - - - - - - - |
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2 skeletons telling jokes - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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Animated Monster trying to escape - - - - - - - - - |
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Owl, Automated | X | Build this simple automated Owl | |
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Animatronics Skeleton - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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Ultimate Flying Ghost | X | A simple version of the FCG - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
Audio | Back to top | ||
70-Volt Speaker System | L | Put more sound in more places with a 70-volt system - - - | |
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This page is about first dirt-cheap MP3 player, the A-MP016. |
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X | How to use the Audacity program in making your haunt Sounds | ||
Audio/Servo Driver Circuit | X | Building and using animated prop controls - - - - - - - | Schematic |
Boom Box Amplifier | X | Getting more our that old boom box | |
Connecting Audio Systems | L | Basic Manual Connections | |
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Use Audacity to make this spooky
effect on your audio files |
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Digital Sound Recorder | X | Use a cheap keychain recorder for your haunt | |
Digital Sound Recorder | X | Make a digital sounds recorder from scratch | |
Digital Sound w/Timer Control | X | How to connect & Modify sound recorder to speakers & timer | |
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Quick tutorial to get started using Audacity
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Instructions for turning a CD
player to be used with props |
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X | Add sound to your props from central location | |
Multichannel Audio Player | X | Make and Replay synchronized recordings | |
Multichannel Audio Player 1 | L | The overview of the multichannel audio player 1 project | |
Multichannel Audio Player 2 | L | use several cheap MP-3 players, synchronized together | |
Music to Haunt By |
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Recordable Sound Box | L | The construction of a programmable sound box | |
Recorded Sound /MP3 Player | L | When your sound needs expand | |
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Build a remote volume control for powered speakers |
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Hide your speakers under styrofoam rocks |
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Schematic for making anything |
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Sounds, Adding to you props | X | Make your own sound systems to your props | |
Sound Ideas | X | Ideas of how to add sound to your haunt | |
Sound Setups | X | How to use CD, tapes, and sounds in a haunt | |
Sound Systems | L | All about Large and Small Sound Systems | |
Sounds for Haunting | X | Collection of CD’s that are useful for haunting | |
Speaker Impedance Matching | L | Hooking up several speakers in different areas | |
Talking Points | L | A Standard for talking Props | |
Terror Tone | L | Low-frequency sounds intended to make you feel creepy. | |
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A small, portable, battery operated sound effect generator |
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Basic Animation Mechanisms | Back to top | ||
Air Compressors | L | All about air compressors and what type is best | |
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Method of syncing eyes to move
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Basic Animation Mechanism | X | How basic animation mechanisms work | |
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Installing a Bucky Servo | X | Adding a Servo to your Bucky skeleton | |
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Tutorial about wiring electrical
switches, and general know how |
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Electrical Safety tips to heed |
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Good advice of what to check if something does not work |
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Eyes, Making Move | X | How to connect eyes to move in sync - - - - - - - - - - | Video 1 2 |
Haunting with Course Animation | X | Something that moves is more scary | |
Haunting w/ Precision Animation | X | Making something move from here to there with precision | |
Pistons, Lift 'N 'Turn | X | Building a piston that will lift a prop and turn it | |
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A Primer for using Pneumatics in your props |
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Wiper Motor in Projects | X | Using a wiper motor in your projects | |
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Animate your prop using air pressure |
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Bats | Back to top | ||
Bat to a Vampire | X | Scene scenario where a bat turns into a Vampire | |
Bat Wing - How To | X | How to make bat wings for props | |
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Bats made from milk jugs |
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Bats, Make Your Own | X | Make your own bats for your haunt | |
Bats R Easy | X | Make these realistic looking bats using latex | |
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Installing a swivel to allow bats
to spin in the wind |
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Big Mouth | Back to top | ||
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Instructions for converting a table to a toothy monster |
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Blood | Back to top | ||
Blood, How to make Stage | X | Recipe for making stage blood | |
Blood Recipes | X | Instructions for making realistic blood | |
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X | Several different recipes for making fake blood | |
Blood Recipes for Fountain | L | Recipes to make realistic fake blood | |
Blood Squirting Effect | X | Make this effect for almost no cost | |
Blood Transfusion Bottle | X | Make a realistic prop from Karo bottles | |
Easy Blood Recipe | X | Make fake blood the easy way | |
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Make fake blood with colored gelatin and corn syrup |
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Another recipe for making Fake Blood |
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Recipe calls for food coloring and caramel ice cream topping |
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Use red food coloring, corn starch, and corn syrup |
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Many Blood Recipes and tips for creating blood effects |
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Bodies | Back to top | ||
Alive or a Prop | X | Easy Scene Idea using people dressed as a prop | |
Arms and Hands | X | Easy way of making good looking arms and hands | |
Arms & Hands, Extended | X | Extended limbs for your costumes | |
Bodies, Prop-Simple | X | Making simple prop bodies instructions | |
Body Parts Illusion | X | Scene where props are both fake and alive | |
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Making a swinging torso |
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Bucky Grim Reaper | X | Building a Grim Reaper from Bucky Skeleton | |
Dead Man, How to | X | Make this body that appears to be a dead man | |
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A Pose Able PVC frame dummy |
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Make this using coat hangers and
paper mache’ |
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Dropping body above group |
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Make a body from duct taping a live person |
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Make a body in the sitting position from duct tape |
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Made from pin pong balls, paint,
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Make Scary hands from coat hangers |
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Make evil looking heads from styrofoam wig heads
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Make arms for your bodies from
plastic bags and tape |
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Build these cool hands from
styrofoam, wires, and tape |
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Old Man sitting in a Rocking Chair |
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Build this body from a mannequin torso |
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Grim Greeter | X | Grim Reaper using an oscillating fan | |
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Make this body using a wooden frame |
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Instructions for building and mounting the eyes |
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Photo instructions of how this corpse was made |
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Ground Breaker made from styrofoam head
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Building up the skeleton using a Bucky skull and arms |
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Easy method of making static dummies for your haunt |
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Instructions for making a mummy dummy |
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Mad Monk | L | Mad Skeletal Monk Prop | |
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How to make a Grim Reaper Figure to stand in your cemetery |
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Making Latex Heads | X | Fabricate your own latex puppet heads | |
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Making Rib Cages with Great Stuff Foam |
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Making Bodies with Great Stuff Foam - Building Bones |
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Making Weird Rib Cages III | X | Making Bodies with Great Stuff Foam - Adding Upper Arms | |
Making Weird Rib Cages IV | X | Making Bodies with Great Stuff Foam - Building Bones Again | |
Making Weird Rib Cages V | X | Making Bodies with Great Stuff Foam - Adding Hands | |
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Making Bodies with Great Stuff Foam - Lower Arms |
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Monster Mud | X | How to make a monster with mud | |
Monster Mud Grim Reaper | X | 5’ tall Grim Reaper static Display using Monster Mud | |
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Wooden frame with Monster Mud makes up this eerie figure |
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Mud Creature | X | Monster Mud Creature holding a sign | |
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How to make a mummy static display |
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How to use PVC and rebar in building your bodies |
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Make this realistic looking
eyeball with the muscle still attached |
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Make these using Great Stuff foam,
they look amazing |
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Making a set of realistic arms for your prop |
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How-to for making a realistic
looking severed arm |
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Skin Face | X | Make this gruesome project from hot melt glue | |
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Amazing 8’ Tall man, imposing his might upon all |
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Using Paper Mache to make a corpse’s torso and ribs section |
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Transforming Wig Heads | X | Making prop heads from Styrofoam wig heads | |
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Make a Vampire head for your body |
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Bodies - Corpses | Back to top | ||
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How to make |
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Build a Corpse or Dummy | X | Description of steps needed to make a dummy | |
Cheap Skeleton into a Corpse | X | Turn a cheap Blucky skeleton into a corpse | |
Corpse, Build-How to | X | Instructions on how to build a corpse | |
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Making cheap skeletal ghost hands |
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Actor dresses as a skeleton jumps out of a bed |
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Turning a Bucky Torso into a |
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Corpsification of a Skeleton |
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Easy way to corpsify a skeleton |
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Ideas
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"Corpsification" can be a very difficult or very easy project. |
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How to convert your Blucky |
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2 how-to’s in 1 – Corpsification and how to build a crow cage |
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Corpsing a Skeleton | X | Corpsing a Skeleton that will be in a coffin | |
Corpsing Blucky Skeleton | X | The trick is to make these look like expensive rotting corpses | |
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Corpsing a Blucky using liquid nails and |
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Exhumed Corpse | X | Corpsing a blucky skeleton to appear to be an exhumed corpse | |
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Making Corpse hands using paper mache |
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How to make the body portion of a
corpse |
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How-to Decay Arms | X | How to Decay bones | |
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How to convert a skeleton to a corpse |
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Method for corpsing a Blucky Skeleton |
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Want to make your own latex corpse hands? |
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How to make a Bucky Skeleton |
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Bodies - PVC Frame | Back to top | ||
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Made from wood and fence couplings – Very Sturdy |
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Build this grave jumper from a PVC frame |
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Basic PVC frame to make a prop torso explained |
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Beakman's PVC Figures | X | Instructions for making PVC figures | |
Body for Boris |
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Construction of the body I built for my Boris
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Body frame made from PVC using the
Spring tension method |
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Dress your PVC body up to look |
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PVC Frame creature crawling on |
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Bodies made from frames |
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Build this one-eyed space man |
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Death Lord Dummy | X | Life size Dummy that is posable and re-posable | |
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Pictures of how to make this drop down prop |
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Figure Armature | X | How to make a standing skeleton | |
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Build this PVC frame Frankenstein
Monster |
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Frankenstein Monster made from PVC frame |
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Build a grave digger from wood and chicken wire |
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PVC figure posing as a real person |
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Very realistic looking static prop |
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Make this guy standing in a graveyard holding a shovel |
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Cool Looking PVC Prop Body |
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Bigger and better grave grabber - - - - - - - - - - - |
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Make these groundbreaker corpses
in several different ways |
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Build this prop body from cheap
wood instead of PVC |
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Jason | X | Build a Jason Static Prop | |
Lacerated Larry | X | Headless Man holding his head - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
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Make these bodies using PVC frames |
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PVC Frame Body with cape and mask |
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How to get dimensions for your PVC frame |
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Easy prop to build and gives a
great effect |
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Instructions for making PVC bodies |
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Skeleton for body made from PVC frame |
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How to make this simple prop for your cemetery |
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Making a realistic standing dummy
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Bodies made from PVC frame, pillows, and skulls |
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A PVC Body makes a sturdy greeter |
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Waylighter | X | Very realistic man to hold a lamp and show the way | |
Casting And Molding | Back to top | ||
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Making castings is a lot |
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Molding and casting Bats |
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Skulls cast from latex molds you can make |
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Casting skulls with foil and paper |
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Casting and Molding | X | Another way to cast and mold skulls | |
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Method of casting a mold from real |
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Daisy Flower with Skull made from Monster mud |
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Make molding clay from your |
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Make a cast of a person’s face for your haunt |
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Make these cool looking Busts
using Paper Mache’. |
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Reproduce a metal filigree Ornament |
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How-to for using foaming gelatin
to cast items |
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Helping change people’s face for
costuming |
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Instructions for casting and molding latex heads |
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Detailed instructions of how to make a latex mask |
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Instructions for making a mold
from a persons head |
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Instructions for casting a persons
head and face |
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Make your own tinted mache for
molding |
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Another version of this recipe |
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Making a 2-part mold to reproduce foam heads |
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Use PVC, putty, & needle, make a tool to add hair to masks |
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Techniques for making your own masks |
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A Primer for making your own molds |
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Molding process explained using the Dragon Skin Material |
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Make this Grim Reaper using monster mud |
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Skeleton creature breaking through wall, made w/ Monster mud |
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Very good tutorial for basic paper
mache’ projects |
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Evil looking pumpkins patterned from Stolloween’s work |
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Instructions of how to make your
own skulls |
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Make these skulls from paper
mache’ |
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Cheap source for using foam to make masks and such. |
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Molding limbs and bones to make a
skeleton |
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Rubber Latex Outer Skin | X | Latex Skin making for Halloween props | |
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Making a mold, casting, and painting techniques for skulls |
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Skull Molds | X | Making a mold to cast skulls from | |
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This is a work in progress on learning to sculpt. Will update. |
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Using Paper Mache to convert a wighead to a zombie head |
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Transforming Wigheads | X | Making prop heads | |
Cemetery Columns | Back to top | ||
Aged Wood Cemetery Columns | X | Aging techniques using wood | |
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How to make these 6’ high |
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Cemetery Fence Columns | X | Realistic looking Cemetery Columns with lantern on top | |
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Really Eerie looking cemetery
columns |
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How to build columns with |
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A very simple project and a cheap way to make a grave. |
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Build these interesting pillars with crows on top |
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Building the cemetery fence columns |
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Pictures of how we built our cemetery accessories |
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Made using 2 X 2 lumber and
styrofoam. |
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Painting Fence Columns | L | Painting your fence Columns | |
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Cemetery Columns made from
styrofoam. |
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Build this simple cemetery pillar |
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Photos of how this was built |
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Columns built using the heads of
many lost souls |
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Skeleton Cemetery Columns | X | Make these columns for your grave yard entry point | |
Cemetery Crypt | Back to top | ||
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Tomb made from styrofoam |
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Building the Casa De Sade Crypt |
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Make a Crypt for the Flying Crank Ghost |
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Building a crypt for Flying Crank Ghost - - - - - - - - - |
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Make this crypt mock up for a spooky effect |
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Use of mirrored
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Make the walls in your mausoleum look realistic |
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Crypt Lid being raised by a skeleton from inside |
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Cemetery Epitaphs | Back to top | ||
Epitaphs from various sources | X | A collection of Epitaphs from the ‘net | |
Cemetery Fence | Back to top | ||
Build a Cemetery Fence |
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Plans for building a fence - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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Cemetery Fence – Style 2 | X | Plans for building another fence | |
Cemetery Fence - Style 3 | X | Plans for building a different fence - - - - - - - - - - | Plans |
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How-to for building a cemetery fence |
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Another version of the traditional |
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Casa De Sade’s version of the
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Collinwood Cemetery Fence | X | Another version of the traditional cemetery Fence | |
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This is my solution to joining the fence panels together |
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Creative Cemetery Fence | X |
Fence uses chain link and posts |
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Creepy Nights Cemetery Fence | X | Cemetery Fence made from weather resistant wood | |
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Plans for building a fence around graveyard |
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More fence made from PVC pipe. |
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Build this graveyard fence and gate for a Crypt |
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Wooden Fence with blood at the tips |
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Update for graveyard fence plans |
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Modular sections that can be taken
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How to build article with illustrations |
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Adding realistic looking |
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Diagram showing dimensions of Omar's Cemetery Fence |
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Pallet Cemetery Fence | X | Building a Cemetery from old pallets | |
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Protect your investment (and your |
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Method of making spikes to top
your cemetery fence |
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Wrought Iron Fence | X | Make a cemetery Fence using PVC Pipe | |
Cemetery Gate | Back to top | ||
Big Entrance Sign | X | Make an awesome entrance sign from styrofoam | |
Cemetery Gate | X | Build this awesome looking cemetery gate | |
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Brief description of wooden gate |
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Make this gate for your cemetery display |
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Cemetery Scenes | Back to top | ||
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Mausoleum slots drop down where actor can scare people |
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Artificial method of appearing to look like a fresh dug grave |
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Creating a graveyard scene is
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This ghostly bride appeared among the gravestones |
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Picture of cool scene using a
Bucky Skeleton in the cemetery |
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Hell Hole | X | Devil Upper Torso coming out of hole | |
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Set the scene where corpses come to life |
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Easy method of making a fresh dug grave |
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Cemetery Tombstones | Back to top | ||
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Easy step by step instructions to make tombstones |
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Stones commemorating three pioneers in the field of electricity |
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Using books for the base column, and displayed with vines |
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Step by step tutorial for making |
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Big Scream Tombstones | X | More Styrofoam Tombstones | |
Blackstone Tombstones | X | Foam Tombstones patterned after Blackstone Cemetery | |
Bleeding |
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Glue a Blucky Skeleton to a |
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Make a many tombstones for the cost of one purchased |
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Instructions for building realistic |
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Tutorial of how to make |
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Carving Styrofoam Tombstones | X | The tools of the trade and simple instructions | |
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Loads of detail in this one |
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Celtic Cross Tombstone | X | Instructions for building this big tombstone - - - - - - - - | Template |
Cemetery | X | Turn your yard into a cemetery | |
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Photo examples of several different tombstones |
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Example of this type of tombstone |
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Collinwood Tombstones | X | Wooden Tombstones | |
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Example of our process for |
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Crypto's Tombstones | X | Making realistic looking foam tombstones | |
Dan's Tombstones | X | Tombstone Ideas from Dan’s Halloween Page | |
Dead End Tombstones | X | Instructions for making Foam Tombstones | |
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Make your
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Gargoyle
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Making tombstones using foam, x-acto knives, and paint |
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Graves, How-To | X | Make some graves for your cemetery | |
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Gravestones that are shaped in
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Angel mounted on top of tombstone |
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Foam Tombstones | X | No cemetery would be complete without creepy tombstones | |
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Engrave your styrofoam tombstones
using a glue gun |
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Halloween Asylum Tombstones | X | Making tombstones from OSB, Plywood, and Foam board | |
Halloween Creation Tombstones | X | Making simple grave stones or large monuments | |
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Your Halloween tombstones is only the first step |
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Halloween Tombstones | X | Building your own tombstones lets you express your creativity | |
Hallows Eve Tombstones | X | Making a Headless Horseman Tombstone | |
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Build something to disguise your floodlights in the cemetery |
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Homemade Tombstones | X | Make your own tombstones using simple tools and materials | |
How to make Foam Tombstones | X | Make tombstones the way you want them | |
Improved Bleeding Tombstone | X | Improved Bleeding Tombstone | |
Keeba's Tombstone | X | Instructions for making foam tombstones and engraving them | |
Keeba's Tombstone- 2001 | X | Ironstock 2001 Tombstone Making workshop | |
LED Portrait Tombstone | X | A backlit version of the tombstone with a portrait | |
Lighted Tombstone | X | Build a lighted tombstone | |
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Another method and example of |
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Morbid's Tombstones | X | Tombstones from Foam Board | |
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Make a dead mourner humped over a
tombstone |
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Moving Tombstone | X | Tombstone rocks back and forth, operated by small gear motor | |
Nelson's Tombstones | X | Cool looking 3D tombstones | |
Obsession Tombstones | X | No grave yard is complete without tombstones | |
Poe Headstone | X | Replica of Edgar Allen Poe's Tombstone | |
Quick and Dirty Tombstones | X | Several Tombstone plans using foam board - - - - - - - | template #1, #2 |
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Rat Poppin from an elaborate tombstone |
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Rest in Peace Headstone | X | Traditional Rest in Peace tombstone | |
Rocking Tombstone | X | Build a Tombstone that rocks back and forth | |
Rocking Tombstone II | X | Another version of the Rocking Tombstone | |
Shipwheel Headstone | X | Ship wheel tombstone described | |
Skull & Crossbones Tombstones | X | A multi-layered styrofoam creation | |
Spookyblue Tombstones | X | Make your own bone yard filled with gothic headstones | |
Steel Stakes | L | How to make ground stakes from Rebar | |
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Technique for transferring printed
lettering to foam |
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Stucco Tombstones | X | Tombstones made from Stucco foam board | |
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Wolfstone’s instruction of how to make foam gravestones |
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Wolfstone’s update article about Styrofoam tombstones |
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Details of the construction of the tombstones |
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Making tombstones from wood |
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The Old Cemetery | X | Making Foam Tombstones | |
Tombstone Applique How-To | X | Make Appliqués from clay molds and attach to tombstones | |
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Using everyday items to set off your tombstones |
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Tombstone Examples | X | Examples of Styrofoam and Wooden Tombstones | |
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Tips on how to turn these out by
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Tombstone - Final Touches | X | Adding those final touches help make the graveyard real | |
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Suggestions as to what font is best used on tombstones |
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Tombstone -Ghost of Halloween | X | Tombstones with the help from an artist | |
Tombstone How-To | X | A tutorial on how to make tombstones from start to finish | |
Tombstone Ideas | X | Ideas of how these tombstones were made | |
Tombstone Pictures | X | Pictures of example tombstones | |
Tombstones Placement | X | What to consider when placing your tombstones | |
Tombstones, Revised | X | You can design, shape, paint, texture, detail anyway you want | |
Tombstone stencil Technique | X | Using spray paint to eat away at my foam for the ancient look | |
Tombstone Templates | X | Templates for different shapes of tombstones | |
Tombstones 1 | X | Instructions for making Tombstones from Foam Horror Seek | |
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Tombstone Templates for a 4' X 8' Sheet of Plywood |
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Tombstones 1-4 | X | Tombstone Templates for a 4' X 8' Sheet of Plywood | |
Tombstgone 1-5 | X | Tombstone Templates for a 4' X 8' Sheet of Plywood | |
Tombstones, 2005 Additions | X | Added Tombstones designs | |
Tombstones, 2007 Additions | X | Added Tombstones designs for the 2007 haunt | |
Tombstones - 2007 | X | New Tombstones from Halloween-L | |
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Hide your lights using this tombstone idea |
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Tournament de Tombstone | X | Build this tombstone in a tombstone | |
Wicked stone Tombstones | X | Standard technique for making tombstones out of foam | |
Widows Bluff Tombstones | X | Take a pic of your favorite tombstone and recreate it in foam | |
Wooden Grave Markers | X | Home made wooden cross grave markers | |
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Wooden tombstones with famous people epitaphs |
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Clocks | Back to top | ||
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13 Hour Clock Props | X | Two different versions of 13 Hour clocks - - - - - - - - | Video |
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13 hour clock with the hands
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13 hours Clock face with hands that move backward |
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Another clock using a better clock case |
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Coffins | Back to top | ||
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Build an inexpensive coffin for your prop |
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Plans for building a coffin from a |
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Realistic coffin that can be used year after year |
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Plans to build for your Bucky Skeleton Coffin |
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Buried Alive | X | Build a half version of a coffin to save money | |
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Build this cardboard full size coffin |
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Build a casket where it’s empty, and then corpse appears |
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Coffin Construction Plans | X | Construction Plans for a realistic Toe-Pincher Coffin | |
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Award winning coffin design Described |
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Coffin Coronary | X | Build this coffin pop-up prop - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
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Plans and Diagrams for making |
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Coffin, Opening | X | Coffin lid opens and closes | Video |
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Coffin opens, closes, corpse rises |
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Coffin, Full | X | Plans for building a full size, realistic coffin | |
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Ideas of what you can do with |
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Make this coffin that appears to
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Coffin made from plastic
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This plan uses much less space and materials. |
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Build a coffin that looks like it's |
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Plans for building a realistic looking Egyptian Sarcophagus |
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Coffin lid opens, Elvis pops up |
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Skull pops up in a ground breaker
coffin |
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Sit Up Coffin | X | Build a sit up mechanism for your Bucky Skeleton | |
Toe Pincher Coffin | X | Coffin plans from the Casa de Sade | |
Toe Pincher Coffin II | X | Do-It-Yourself Toe Pincher Coffin plans | |
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Pictorial instructions of how to
build this |
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A classic design made completely
from styrofoam |
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Construction plans and
instructions for this authentic coffin |
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Very detailed instructions for making the prop cheaply - - - |
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Another version of the popular
coffin with a different lid |
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Unearthed Coffin | X | Cheap and Easy coffin plans | |
Compressed Air | Back to top | ||
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All about air compressors and what type is best |
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How to convert a bicycle pump to an air cylinder |
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Air Cylinder from Screen Door | X | Convert a screen door opener to an air ram | |
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Convert a Screen Door Closer to an air cylinder |
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Air Switch | L | Synchronize various effects from one activation source | |
Air Trigger | X | Make this trigger Mechanism | |
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How to connect the air lines |
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Tutorial about working with
compressed air in haunts |
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Converting a propane tank for compressed air |
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Several ways to connect a solenoid valve to a cylinder |
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Instructions for converting a door closer to an air cylinder |
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Plans to build a (HAM) Haunt Air Manager |
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Spook up your haunt with animation |
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Methods of mounting cylinders to be most effective and safe |
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Guide to making your own air cylinder |
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Different types and sources of pneumatic cylinders |
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Build your own air piston |
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Introductory primer for using Pneumatic Solenoid valves |
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Electronically control compressed air, with a solenoid valve |
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Controllig Animated Props | Back to top | ||
555 Timer | X | A cheap component to build a timer | |
555 Timer | X | Timer Mechanism that builds a delay and lockout feature | |
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A computer program is list of instructions a Computer performs |
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Connectivity options in getting the Stamp to talk to your PC |
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Introduction to necessary items to input on Basic Stamp |
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Introduction to items necessary to output on Basic Stamp |
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What you need for a BASIC Stamp microcontroller |
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Info about using computers to automate and animate a haunt. |
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Info to help you choose a computer controller for your haunt |
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Build a structure to keep all your Controls in. |
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DC Electric Motors provide a means of "precision animation" |
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Power one prop, then another, in sequence |
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Commercial products that simplify the task of driving RS servos |
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Stepper motors are a versatile, inexpensive means of animation |
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Some background necessary to discuss input and output . |
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What is an electric motor and why should I care? |
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Control your Haunt with a DMX Central Controller |
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What is an electric motor, and why should I care? |
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Build a remote control to send signals to remote locations |
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Input/output design for a Prop-1 program |
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The virtues of automation via intelligent controllers |
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Versatile & inexpensive means of "precision animation". |
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Stepper motors are a versatile, inexpensive means of animation |
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Let's get this straight from the beginning: You can do this |
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Basic Introduction to the X-10 Controller |
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A beam of light concentrated by cheap lenses |
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Accept 110 VAC line current, and flip low-voltage switch for us. |
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Sensing visitors or timing activities for props |
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Synchronized eye movement |
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A Mat switch triggers an effect when someone steps on it |
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Motion Control | X | Building a Motion Detector Hybrid | |
Motion Detector-Door Minder | X | Build this kit that uses an infrared beam to mind doorways | |
Motion Detector Modification | X | Use a motion detector as a triggering device | |
Motion Sensor | X | Convert a motion activated light to control your props | |
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Setting up a Motion Detector from a pole |
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Convert an ordinary power strip into a motion sensor controller |
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Build a trigger to activate your props |
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How to for making eyes move in sync. |
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Instructions for setting up control of lights using relay |
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Applies AC power to several different devices in sequence. |
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Helpful hints to setting up the power supply to your props |
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What must a controller do? |
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A controller based on the BASIC Stamp line of controllers |
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How to for different types of
switches for controlling props |
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Using remote controls in your haunt |
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Control pneumatic props remotely with this set up |
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Learn all about resistors |
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Takes an audio signal and uses it to drive a RC servo |
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How a floor mat switch can add to the haunting experience |
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Switch Mats | X | Building and Using Switch Mats to control props | |
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Trigger more than one prop at a time with this device |
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A computer program determines what the program does. |
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it is now time to write the actual program |
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Corpsification | Back to top | ||
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Corpsification techniques of a Blucky Skeleton |
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Make this molding clay from bread |
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Skull and Bone tutorial for Bucky corpsing |
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What you can do with a |
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Corpsing Bodies 1 | X | Making a corpse from a Bucky Skeleton | |
How to Build A Corpse | X | How to corpsify a skull | |
Making a Corpse | X | How to make a corpse using paper mache | |
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Making a corpse from a Blucky Skeleton |
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Costumes | Back to top | ||
Alfred, The Stalk Around | X | Build this dragon costume to where | |
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Tips of how to make cloaks,
leggings, etc for your costumes |
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Distressing Clothes for Bodies | X | Make clothes look old and tattered for your bodies | |
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When making a corpse, distress
their clothing |
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Distressing Men's Shirts | X | Make a man's shirt look old and worn | |
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How to make realistic fangs using dental materials |
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Flesh Face Mask | X | Make a mask from brown paper bag - - - - - - - - - | Pattern |
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Notes about how to use gelatin in
costuming |
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Instructions for making this
realistic looking costume |
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Making a Cloak | X | Cloak making guide | |
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Making a latex face mask made easy |
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Making Latex Chains | X | Easy to make chains out of pipe cleaners and Latex | |
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Very Tall costume of a skeletal
Man, walking about |
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An 8’ Stalker costume you can wear |
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Another giant Stalker costume |
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Swamp Thing | X | Using a “Gillie” Suit | |
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Weathering cloth can be quite Simple with the proper tools |
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Creative Process | Back to top | ||
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Simple things you can do to
enhance your haunt |
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30 Tips to help the new Haunter get going |
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Immerse your audience in |
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List of available books and videos on Halloween prop building |
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Build your Haunt with Pods | X | A Quality Fabrication Solution for Haunts On The Go! | |
Care and Feeding of Actors | X | Some good advice about how to treat actors | |
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Using the creative process to enhance scenes |
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Design your haunt with the creative process in mind |
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Little things to help your haunt |
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Information about how to use these
in building props |
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Document explaining what the creative process of Halloween is |
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Home Haunting Tips | X | Terror Tom’s Home Haunting Tips | |
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Some advice on how to set up a trick or treat station |
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Put together some "Instant Halloween" kits to lend to friends |
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It’s amazing what you can find for nothing and make a haunt |
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When prop building, think through the process to simplify things |
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Ways to make your haunt memorable for participants |
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Make your own House Haunted | X | Tips for making your own haunted house work well | |
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Set your haunt apart from all the rest |
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Build this Haunted Truck Float |
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Good advice of how to plan a haunt |
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Simple techniques for basic scares
are best sometimes |
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Scareactors |
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Your haunt is your stage. You'll |
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Message about how to put your props out so they will be seen |
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Tips on how to create a very
effective haunt |
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Method of setting up a dedicated soldering bench |
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Tips to help the beginner start Haunting |
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Waiting Line Entertainment | X | Ideas for entertaining those waiting to enter your Haunt | |
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Good design for converting a hay wagon to a people carrier |
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It is possible to put on a scare without a big pile of cash. |
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Dot Room | Back to top | ||
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Building a dot room for your haunt |
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Instructions for making a Dot Room |
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Painting different shapes to make your dot room |
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Ghost of Halloween-Dot Room | X | Another version of this cool effect | |
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Dot Room using skull images instead of regular dots |
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Thinking Outside the Dot Room | X | Dot Room Attraction is really cool | |
Drop Panel | Back to top | ||
Drop Panel | X | Drop a Portrait to reveal a hidden monster - - - - - - - | Video #1, #2 |
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Build a portrait that drops with a bang, exposing a monster |
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Electric Chair | Back to top | ||
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Plans for building this eerie looking electric chair |
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Death Chair - Death Lord | X | Death Chair with built in speakers | |
Demon Throne | X | Big & impressive yet fold up into a small space for storage | |
Electric Chair | X | The basics of an Electric Chair Halloween Prop | |
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Build an electric chair from these plans |
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Develop a scene for the execution |
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Electric Chair with victim | X | This electric chair victim will twitch when activated | |
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Victim using a talking head for effect |
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Electrocution | X | Awesome Electric Chair Scene - - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
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Electric chair design with fancy
scroll work |
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Kammo's Death Chair | X | Grim Reaper's Death Chair is over 8' tall | |
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Electric Chair victim thrashes and burns - - - - - - - - - |
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Facade | Back to top | ||
Canvas Facade | X | Making Fake Stone Walls from a Dyed Drop Cloth | |
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Make this plywood castle facade |
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Stone Walls, How to Build | X | Make Fake Stone Walls | |
Fake Fire | Back to top | ||
Artificial Fire |
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Interested in building artificial fire |
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Make a big fake fire using plastic bags |
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Fake Fire | X | Make a fake fire using a fan and silk | |
Fake Fire with Drum | X |
Fake fireplace with a revolving |
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Pictorial diagram of a fake fire box |
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Flame Box | X | Make this realistic looking fake fire | |
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Quick method of creating the illusion of fire |
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Instructions for making fake fire coming from an Urn |
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Build a fake fire like the movie
set |
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Silk Torches | L | Flickering Light Simulated Torches | |
Foam Carving Tools | Back to top | ||
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Very good instruction for building this foam cutting table |
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Sources for buying foam carving |
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Foam Carving Hotwire | X | Make a foam cutting tool from a soldering iron - - - - - - | Video |
Foam Cutting Tool | X | Make a foam cutting tool any length - - - - - - - - - - | Video #1 #2 |
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Make your own foam wire cutter for next to nothing |
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Built using a bow made from PVC pipe |
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Fog Chiller | Back to top | ||
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Make one from an old heater core |
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$20 Fog Chiller | X | Simple Fog Chiller using PVC Pipe | |
Best Fog Chiller | X | Best Design for a good fog chiller | |
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This Chiller is reliable, lightweight |
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Build your own Fog Chiller | X | Build this Fog Chiller to keep your fog low to the ground | |
Fog Chiller | L | All about Glycol Fog Chillers | |
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Fog Chiller using a cooler & |
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Fog Chiller using frozen milk jugs |
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Easy way to make a very good fog chiller - - - - - - - - |
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This design uses 2 hand made soft |
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Fog Crypt Chiller | X | Fog chiller inside a crypt to make eerie effect | |
Fog Machine Chiller | X | Another Fog Chiller you can build | |
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Fog Chiller using a cooler, wire, |
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Cheap to build and works really |
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How not to make a Fog Chiller | L | Learn from mistakes others have made | |
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Make this easy and cheap fog
chiller using a plastic tote tub |
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Ultimatge Fog Chiller | X | Build the award winning fog chiller using a garbage can | |
Fog Machine | Back to top | ||
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Adapt a spooky head to have fog |
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Build this fog machine controller |
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This machine will make mist, fog, and a thin haze |
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Cleaning your Fog Machine | X | How to keep your fog machine clean | |
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Using a microcontroller to trigger a glycol fogger |
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Build your own custom fogger timer. |
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There's nothing like a layer of fog to really add a scare |
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Information frequently asked about
fog machines |
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Fog Machine Repair | X | How to Resurrect a Potentially Dead Fog Machine | |
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How to repair a fog machine |
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Information about fogger remote controls |
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How to repair a dead fog machine |
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Glycol fogger | L | We think that the glycol fogger is the best | |
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Several methods of controlling a fog machine |
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Activate an Event over and over, without resetting |
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Utrasonic Misters | L | High levels of inaudible sound breaks water into mist droplets | |
Fog Making | Back to top | ||
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Glycol fogger is best, for cost, economy and ease of operation |
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Info on how to make fog using dry |
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Fog | L | Learn about all the different types of fog | |
Making Fog Juice | L | Information on making your own fog juice, Is it a good Idea? | |
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Short article about the different ways to make fog |
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Fortune Teller | Back to top | ||
Madam Leota | X | Fortune teller head in a crystal Ball - - - - - - - - - - | Video -Original, Advanced, Modified |
Gargoyles | Back to top | ||
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How to make Gargoyles from Demonware |
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Gargoyles, Commercial | L | Gargoyles available | |
Gargoyles, Eyes | L | How to make eyes for your Gargoyle | |
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How to light your Gargoyles |
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Gargoyle Internal Skeleton | L | Plump out your latex Gargoyle | |
Gargoyle Modifications | L | Latex gargoyle skins: unpainted and without foam inside. | |
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Gargoyle sitting atop a column in your graveyard |
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Gargoyles on Fence Columns | L | Add Gargoyles to your Fence Columns | |
Gargoyles with Flapping Wings | L | Add motorized wings on your Gargoyle | |
Gargoyle, Painting | L | Painting your latex Gargoyles | |
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Make this realistic looking gargoyle out of paper Mache’
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Smoking and Belching Gargoyle | L | Add some smoking effects to your Gargoyles | |
Ghosts | Back to top | ||
Bad Ghost at the Door | X | Scene scenario of a ghost trick or treating | |
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Ghost projected on Plexiglas |
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Easy instructions on how to make |
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Make these ghosts out of chicken
wire |
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Instructions for making a cool looking ghost |
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Ghost Heads | X | Making Ghost Heads from Styrofoam Wig heads | |
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Make these ghosts that sway in the
breeze |
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Ghosties | X | Pictures of Ghostie Scene | |
X | Make a 20’ giant ghost using balloons and paper mache | ||
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Very simple ghost prop that will
get good scares |
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Use coat hangers and white trash bags for this effect |
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Static Ghost display from Casa |
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A Ghost built from an oscillating
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Good description of how this
illusion works |
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Make this Pepper Ghost layout on
the cheap |
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Make this spinning ghostie - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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An indoor full sized peppers ghost effect |
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Ghosts, Axworthy Flying | Back to top | ||
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Very compact, chain driven unit |
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Build description for this prop |
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Flying UFO on Axworthy Frame |
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Build the Drive unit for the Triple Axworthy Ghost |
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Axworthy Flying Ghost mechanism using guide wheels |
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A long looped string that moves around the yard with ghosts - |
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Ghosts, Flying Crank | Back to top | ||
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Build the Anastasia Ghost for the Flying Crank Ghost - - - |
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A creative version of the FCG
Ghostie |
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Various different ways to mount a portable Flying Crank Ghost |
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More on this fantastic prop |
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FCG-Phantasmechanics | X | Original instructions for the famous Flying Crank Ghost | |
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Instructions for building the frame for this prop |
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Make a FCG puppet from a blucky skeleton |
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Flying Crank Ghost | X | Doug Ferguson’s Flying Crank Ghost | |
Flying Crank Blucky How to | X | How to convert a Blucky Skeleton to the FCG Mechanism | |
Flying Crank Ghost, Cheap, Easy | X | Make the Cheap and easy version of the FCG | |
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A Picture history of how they built this prop |
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Building a Ghostie for the FCG
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Very detailed of materials needed to build this prop |
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Hidden FCG LED |
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Merlin's FCG Puppet | X | Build Merlin’s Flying Crank Ghost Puppet - - - - - - - - | Merlin's Video |
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Build a FCG using a fan as the motor |
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Different version of the FCG hanging from a roof |
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Skeleton Marionette | X | Making a FCG skeleton from foam - - - - - - - - - - | Video #1, #2 |
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Easy and cheap method of building this prop |
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Ghosts, Strobe | Back to top | ||
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Static Ghost Display with egg-strobe lights - - - - - - - - |
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A Lightweight Yard display that costs under $20 |
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Guillotines | Back to top | ||
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Guillotine made with a built in switch to drop the blade |
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Guillotine | X | Build this real looking wooden Guillotine | |
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Realistic looking guillotine with
a secret compartment |
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Guillotine Plans |
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Hacks | Back to top | ||
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Making a Vulture from an |
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Animated Werewolf Hack | X | Hacking an animated bear - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Video #1 #2 |
Boris Hack | X | Convert a talking Boris- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Video 1, 2 |
Boris Hack by Otaku | X | Hack Boris for external sound | |
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Modify Boris the talking Skull using a Bucky Skeleton |
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Build Your Own Mouth Animation | L | ways to build a device that moves a mouth mechanism - - - | |
Commercial Mouth Animation | L | Monstrous creatures are more convincing if they do something | |
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Convert a Christmas motion sensor decoration to Halloween |
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Hacking Dougie Fir Talking Tree | X | Step-by-step instructions for hacking Dougie | |
Hack Existing Mouth Animation | L | Hacking a Commercial Animation | |
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Building a stand and speakers, this talking bust is good.
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Jack & Dave | X | Hacking a Douglas Fir to make this Prop | |
Molly Polly, A Pirate’s Pal | X | Talking Parrot for your pirate setting | |
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Convert an owl to a scary prop |
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Convert a baby doll to puke into a
punchbowl |
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Converting Talking Douglas Fir to a talking monster |
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Skulls, Blinking-Talking | X | Convert a Bucky Skull to a talking Skull | Video |
Talking Points/ Connecting Props | L | implement a standard interface for all such props. | |
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Hack a Boris Skull and put it on a Bucky body. |
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Another hack of a Douglas the talking tree - - - - - - - |
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Jacobs Ladder | Back to top | ||
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Instructions for making your own Jacobs
Ladder |
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More instructions for building your own Jacobs ladder |
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Build this version of the Jacob’s Ladder |
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Labels | Back to top | ||
Book cover for Making Potions | X | Print this book cover to make a book look like a potion book | |
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Set up a laboratory or witches room with bottles & Jars |
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Labels for Potion Bottles -1 | X | Print these labels and paste on your bottles | |
Labels for Potion Bottles -2 | X | Print these labels and paste on your bottles | |
Labels for Potion Bottles -3 | X | Print these labels and paste on your bottles | |
Labels for Potion Bottles -4 | X | Print these labels and paste on your bottles | |
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Jack & Dave’s Product Labels for your boxes and cans |
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Printable labels for your mad lab
bottles |
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Printable labels for your mad lab bottles - - - - - - - - |
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Several good looking labels for |
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Printable labels for your mad lab bottles |
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How to make your paper look old to
print your labels on |
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Labels and how to make specimen
jars for your lab |
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Labels for bottles of Poison - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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Laboratory Items | Back to top | ||
Alien Creatures in a Jar | X | Make these aliens on display | |
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Make this Laboratory prop |
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Body Parts in a Jar |
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Make this deep sea creature in |
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Round out your mad-science lab |
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Ping Pong Eyeballs in a jar |
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Make this tube full of eyeballs for your lab - - - - - - - |
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Face Transplant | X | Create faces in a jar that can be used in your displays | |
Frankenhand Table | X | An animated wiggling-severed arm for your laboratory | |
Head in a Jar | X | Instructions for making this laboratory prop | |
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Sample images for your head in a bottle props |
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Make aliens and put into a jar for study |
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Convert an old water heater into a neat lab transformer for
effect |
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Pictures of the Mad Lab’s of years past |
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Mad Scientist Laboratory | X | Create your own Mad Scientist Lab in your home | |
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Description of how to turn wine bottles into potion bottles |
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How to make bottles in your lab take on that eerie glow |
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Lighing - Black Lights | Back to top | ||
Black Light Basics | X | Black Light Basics | |
Black Light Basics 2 | X | More basic info on using Black Light | |
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Making a Black Light Fixture |
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Black Light LED's | X | There has been a lot of interest in UV "black light" LEDs, | |
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Tips and tricks for using Black Light |
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Black Light Strobes | X | All about this special type of strobe light | |
Compact Florescent Black Light | X | A compact black light lamps that screws into fixture | |
Generate & Projecting Black Lht | X | Everything about Black Lights | |
Materials that react to BlackLight | X | To work properly, You have to have things that react to it | |
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Make this waterproof fixture for your black light spots |
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Lighting - Color Organs | Back to top | ||
Color Organs | X | Device that controls brightness of light based on sound levels. | |
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Where to get Commercial Color Organs |
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Debugging Color Organs | X | page is dedicated to what can go wrong with a color organ | |
Making a Color Organ | X | Color organs are expensive and difficult, but can be done | Schematic |
Lighting Control | Back to top | ||
Commercial Light Dimmers | X | Commercially available light dimmers | |
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All about DMX control to operate lights, fog machines, etc. |
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Make this box to control all your lighting needs |
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Build a control box using dimmer switches and an outlet |
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Power Box, 4 Channel Dimmer | X | Control several areas at once | |
Lighting - Dimmers | Back to top | ||
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There are commercial alternatives to building your own. |
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How to make a Light Dimmer Box | X | Make your own dimmer box | |
Lighting - Effects | Back to top | ||
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Build a simple inexpensive flicker light |
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Build a Candle Set Fixture | X | Build this light fixture as a candle set | |
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A floor based candelabra to add
a |
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Construct this effect from PVC
pipe and ingenuity |
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Cave Eyes | X | A microcontroller with 15 pairs of L.E.D.'s - - - - - - - - | circuit board |
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Make this creepy chandelier with hand holding the candles |
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How to rework “flicker” bulbs to |
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Commercial Flashing Lights | X | "Flashing lights" is an on-and-off cycle, which repeats. | |
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Sources for commercial flicker |
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Commercial Electronic Flicker | X | Various Flicker products available | |
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Sources for fake candles that look real |
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Operates separate lights, dims one, and brightening the other |
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Commercial Plasma Lamps | X |
Plasma-based lamps can be
entertaining, fun to watch |
Video #1,
#2,
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Use film canisters & a string of Xmas lights for flashing
effects |
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Eyes in the darkness that glow out as if watching you. |
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Another method of making the Eyes in the darkness that glow |
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Lights whipping along the ground
give an awesome effect |
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Building "Disney-like" Fireflies is really quite simple.
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Another method of making fire
flies, using black light |
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Discussed the theory of how flashing lights operate |
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Converting a Lantern to a |
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Convert battery candles to flickering lights |
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Make candles that flicker from PVC pipe |
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Convert a kerosene lantern to electric using a flicker bulb |
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Flickering candle effect using a single flickering light source |
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Flickering Tunnel Lamps | X | Build this Indiana Jones style flickering tunnel lamps | |
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Simple way to make lights flicker without much fuss |
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Tutorial for converting Christmas
lights to flickering candles |
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Practical Techniques for Flickering Lights - - - - - - - |
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Flicker Lights - Theory | X | An Introduction and Theory of Flickering Lights | |
Flood Light Baffles | X |
Make these from black plastic plant containers
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How to make a simulated gas light
using flicker bulbs |
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Using Light Sticks attached to a
balloon, makes an eerie effect |
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Hacking a power strip, to make a pretty neat flickering light unit |
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Information on how to use lighting to make the effect |
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Tips on how to illuminate your
haunt |
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Good tutorial about lighting for a
haunt |
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Optical Light Fibers & Light Pipes | X | Special effect using light pipes | |
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How to simulate
the effect of a shorted-out lamp |
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Simple Laser Show | X | Build this simple effect using lasers | |
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Cool looking candle holder for a
dark hallway |
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Skeleton arm and hand holding a skull shaped light |
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Three clear skulls stacked and light up for effect |
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Xenon Lightning Implementation | X | This is our purpose-built xenon flash unit | |
Lighting - Lanterns | Back to top | ||
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Turning a shiny new lantern into an
old used one |
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Convert a fuel burning lantern to one that uses an LED |
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Lighting - LED's | Back to top | ||
Eerie Monster Eyes | X | Using LED’s to light up eyes - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Plans |
Intro to LED's in your Haunt | X | Introduction to working with LED’s for eyes | |
LED-Commercial Creature Eyes | X | Commercial Sources for LED's for Creature Eyes | |
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Diagram of how to hook up LED eyes |
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Putting LED's on a live person makes them look "demonic" |
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LED Spotlights | X | Using LED’s in your spotlights - - - - - - - - - - - - | Template |
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Brief information as to how bright you should get LED’s |
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Sources of LED’s and the Basics |
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How to actually make the eyes from
LED’s |
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Make Monster Eyes using LEDs - Very Good Tutorial |
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Information about powering LEDs |
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Very detailed instructions of using colored LED’s in a pumpkin |
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Skulls with fading eyes | X | Make your skulls appear to come alive | |
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Make a flickering fire using LED’s |
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Using LED’s to simulate eyes looking at you from the darkness |
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Using LED's in Creature's Eyes | X | How to use LED’s in Creature’s Eyes | |
Using LED-UV Spotlights | X | Using UV LED Spotlights in the Haunt Industry | |
Lighting - Lightning | Back to top | ||
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Sources for commercial Thunder & Lightning machines |
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Cheap Lightning Box | X | Simulate lightning with thunderstorm sound track & color organ | |
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Lightening Light Box | X | A More Realistic Lightening Simulation - - - - - - - - - | Video |
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Easy to build lightning simulator |
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Lightning w/ Diversitronics Strobe | X | the use of high power strobe lights from Diversitronics | |
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How we threw together thunder and lightning simulation kits. |
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Making LED Creature Eyes | X | The basic LED eye is just a light that says on all the time | |
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Build your own machine for around $25 |
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Thunder & Lightning | X | What’s a Haunt without Thunder & Lightning? | |
Xenon Lightning Implementation | X | Build a Xenon Lightning Flash Unit | |
Lighting - Strobe | Back to top | ||
Bubbles and a Strobe | X | Bubbles illuminated by strobe lights make an eerie effect | |
Commercial Strobes & Kits | X | Where to get Strobe Lights | |
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Page dedicated to what can go |
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strobes & color organs are easily available as kits. |
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Haunting with Strobe Lights | X | Various Uses for Strobes in a Haunt | |
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Using Strobe Lights in your haunt |
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Strobes - Theory & Usage | X | haunt applications for a device that flashes a bright light | |
Triggering DJ Strobes-Remotely | X | A strobe controller to flash a series of strobes in sequence | |
Lighting - Use | Back to top | ||
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Improving your haunt with lighting |
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Use of spotlights and how |
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Common Light Sources | X | Here are some ways to light things up | |
Creating Scares with Lighting | X | Create scares with lighting, and shadows | |
Exotic Light Sources | X | Exotic Light Sources for the Unusual Haunts | |
Eye Bead Demons | X | Make demons from dog food cans and candles | |
Halloween Beacon | X | Large Pumpkin light on a tall pole | |
Incandescent Lamp Specs | X | The many different ways incandescent lighting can be used | |
Lighting Intro | X | This is our introduction to lighting technology | |
Lighting Usage | X | You have a scene, Where do you put the lights? | |
Outdoor Lighting Protectors | X | Build these proctective covers for your outdoor ground lights | |
Skull Stake Lights | X | Convert Pumpkin Stake Lights to Skulls | |
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Make this warning light for effect |
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Using Outdoor Stake Lights |
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Make Up | Back to top | ||
A Make Up Guide | X | Components to get for a basic make up kit | |
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Detailed instruction for applying
an acetone soluble bald cap |
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How to apply makeup to look like
road rash to the head. |
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How to make realistic looking Bruises with makeup |
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Methods of correcting makeup |
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Learn some techniques to making bruise and cut marks |
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Make Up Fx | X | Make up basics | |
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Make up tips to keep safe and sanitary |
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How to add prosthetics, gash’s, and road rash makeup |
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Suggestions for different uses of Mask Latex |
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Easy make-up using a minimum of special supplies |
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Mummy | Back to top | ||
$30 Mummy | X | Build this Mummy for around $30 | |
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A one-eyed mummy |
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Decorate your haunt like ancient |
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The Mummy | X | Every House needs a resident Mummy | |
Uncialle's Mummy | X | How to make Amon-Ratep, the Mummy | |
Pop Ups | Back to top | ||
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Simple and inexpensive pop up mechanism |
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Blucky Popup | X | Make a popup mechanism using a blucky Skeleton - - - - | Video |
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Build mechanism of popping up body from coffin |
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Motorized cellar doors that open |
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Head pops out of a cemetery |
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Build a pop up using vinyl dryer
hose |
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Opposite of a pop-up, this body
drops down on you |
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Body drops down behind group startling them |
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Exorcist Corpselator Pop Up | X | Pop Up of exorcist doll - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
Flower Pot Column Pop Up | X | Pop Up Prop Hidden in a Flower Pot Column | |
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Pop up mechanism made using PVC pipe |
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Monster Head pops from behind a grave stone. |
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Instructions for building this pop up Prop |
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Grim Reaper Pop Up | X | Grim Reaper w/ 5’ Robe that Pops Up | |
Hands for Toxic Barrel Pop-Up | X | Adding Hands to this prop for effect | |
Head Moving-Up and Down | X | Head that moves up and down behind a blind - - - - - | Video |
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Easy method of making a skull
popup from behind a tombstone |
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Monster pops out of one of |
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Skeleton pops up from behind a tombstone |
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Pop Up Mechanism that folds almost flat |
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Pop Up appears to be a Medussa head with snakes in her hair |
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Peek a Boo Zombie Pop Up | X | Electric Motor Driven Pop Up | |
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Skeleton pops up behind or around a corner |
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Pop up skeleton from behind a tombstone-well documented |
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This prop pops up from under water |
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Pneumatic prop pops skulls up scaring passers by |
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Pop Up - 4 Bar | X | Using 4 bars, build a skeleton pop up mechanism | |
Pop Up Crate | X | Skull pops up out of crate - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
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Pictorial instructions of how to
build this simple prop |
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Pop-Up Peek-a-boo Zombie | X | An electric motor driven animatronics' | |
Pop Up Reliability | X | Build your Pop Up the Right way | |
Pumpkin Pop-Up | X | Pumpkin prop built on Trash Can Trauma Theme | |
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Good tutorial on basic pop up mechanisms |
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Sit Up Mechanism | X | Build this sit up mechanism for your skeleton | |
Skeleton Pop Up | X | Simple Pop-Up Mechanism for a Blucky | |
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Made from the “lowboy mechanism”- a devil pops up |
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Open a trunk and a head jumps out at you |
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Tombstone Breaks Open | X | Pop Up Tombstone using air pressure - - - - - - - | Video |
Tombstone Leaper | X | Pneumatic popup from behind a tombstone - - - - - - | Video |
Toxic Barrel Pop Up | X | Home Built Toxic Barrel Pop Up Prop | |
Trash Can Trauma | X | Pop Up from a trash can - - - - - - - - - - - | Video |
Portraits | Back to top | ||
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Convert an old medicine |
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Drop Picture | X | Picture Drops revealing a ghoul | |
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Make this cool looking effect using a photo and LED’s |
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Haunted Portrait | X | A compilation of three separate shots make this spooky | |
Scarecrows | Back to top | ||
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Make a scarecrow that has an exploding head |
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Building this simple scarecrow can
be fun and effective |
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Simple and easy method of making scarecrows |
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Jack, the Pumpkin Scarecrow | X | Make this scarecrow using PVC Pipe | |
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Description of how this scene was set up and built |
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Spooky version of the typical scarecrow |
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Scarecrow | X | Make this center piece for your yard haunt | |
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Scarecrow using PVC body, |
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Build a Scary Looking Scarecrow for your Haunt |
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Make a head for your scare crow |
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Make these scarecrows with |
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More updated version of this |
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Photos of several scarecrows |
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Scary Crow | X | Animated Scare Crow by Scary Terry | |
Scenes | Back to top | ||
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Scene set up with many, many
clocks |
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Scene involves an old TV showing a news report. |
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How using scrim in your haunt can add to it’s effects |
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Make a talking dummy that can see the kids. |
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Monitor connected to a video
recorder to interact with guests |
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Scene set up using an old refrigerator |
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Impaled dummy against a wall and
methods of making it move |
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Inflate something quickly to add
surprise value to effects |
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As someone picks it up the phone, blast of air sprays over them |
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Jack o lantern over someone's head sticking through a table |
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Make a fake chainsaw from a Laundry detergent jug |
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Have a “plant” among the kids, and when a monster approaches.. |
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Moving Shadows | X | Lighting effect allows actors to move around | |
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Scene where pizza man turns into a
ghoul |
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Bedroom scene from the Exorcist |
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Easy to make scene of on-coming
truck |
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Shaker Board | X | Build this shaker board to vibrate those who stand on it | |
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Scene where passers by see sparks flying all around. |
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Rig a blow up monster to inflate
quickly at the right time |
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Skeletons | Back to top | ||
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Contact info to get direct line to
people who deal with Haunters |
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Life-size skeleton torso that crawls across the lawn |
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Blinking & Talking Skeleton | X | Make this talking blinking skull for your skeleton | |
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Turning a Blucky Skeleton into a blood dripping prop |
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Blucky-Fitting w/PVC | X | Helping to pose your Blucky skeletons | |
Blucky Skeletons | X | Many Blucky Skeleton’s posing in different positions | |
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This prop is a Bucky Skeleton
dressed as the Soul Catcher |
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An easy and simple stand to pose your Bucky Skeleton |
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Bucky Skeleton Stand | X | Instructions, build a stand for Bucky | |
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Bucky, an economical life-size |
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Child in a hanging Cage | X | Making a hanging cage with a child skeleton in it | |
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Blucky Skeleton made to look like charred remains |
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Dead Men at Work | X | Static display using skeletons | |
Demon Bucky | X | Convert your Bucky Skeleton into a demon | |
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Redo a Budget Bart skeleton into a
demon skeleton |
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Make this easy to build stand for
your Bucky Skeleton |
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Make these skeleton bodies from
wire covered in foam |
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Using rope, pulley’s, & timing, you can scare people very well. |
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Different things you can do with a Bucky Skeleton |
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Turn a Bucky Skeleton into a guardian |
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Make good looking skeleton hands using wire and clay |
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Posing a Bucky Skeleton | X | How to pose a Bucky Skelton using a T-post | |
Realistic Rubber Skeleton | X | Convert a cheap rubber skeleton to be poseable | |
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Construction details and dimensions for making this prop |
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Convert a Bucky Skeleton to one
that is pose able |
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Another version of this pneumatic prop |
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Skeleton Cage | X | Hanging cage for Mr. Thrifty-33” Skeleton | |
Skeleton Cage II | X | Cage made out of metal bars, more realistic | |
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Medieval Cage to shackle your skeleton in |
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A cage made for Mr. Thrifty Skeleton |
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Make a cage for your skeleton to be locked in |
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Cage made out of lath boards works very nicely |
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Skeleton Moving in a Chair | X | Animated Skeleton moves head | |
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Blucky Skeleton peering from behind a tombstone |
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Skeletons | X | All about the different types of skeletons available | |
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Make that Cheapo skeleton look really hot |
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Skeletons - Aging Bones | Back to top | ||
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Aging Bucky Bones |
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How to stain Bucky’s bones to make
them look better |
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Skeletons-Aging Cheap Plastic | X | Aging the Blucky Skeletons | |
Skulls | Back to top | ||
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Realistic looking skulls made from paper mache’ |
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Make a skull that speaks |
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Bouncing Bucky Skull | X | Modify a Bucky Skull | |
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Ways to make Bucky Skulls weathered, aged, and corpsed |
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Bulbous Bucky Skull | X | Making a disgusting looking skull | |
Bucky, Old Laughing | X | Convert Bucky Skulls to make laugh | |
Demon Skulls | X | Convert your styrofoam skulls into demon skulls | |
Flaming Bucky Skull | X | Create this illusion of a Bucky Skull on fire | |
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Glowing skulls appear to be floating in the air |
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Reproduce skulls using foil and hot glue |
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Skull with laser beam eyes |
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Skulls laying around with laser beam eyes |
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Make Your Own Skulls - Cheap | X | Reproducing skulls from an existing one | |
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This skull will produce mist when
water is added |
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Techniques for making a foam skull
look real |
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Make your own clear resin ball
with a skull in it |
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Blood spewing from a skulls mouth
from 8’ in the air |
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Create a skull with flashing LED eyes |
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Make a Skull appear to have rotting flesh on it |
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Turn a plastic skull into a corpsed skull |
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Simple prop using cheap plastic skulls |
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Skull Plaques | X | Make these Skull Plaques with LED eyes | |
Skull Post | X | Build this post of Skulls for your entrance | |
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Three skulls popping out from inside a column, singing |
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Make as many of your own cheap skulls as you need |
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Skulls, Cheap and Easy | X | Reproduce Skulls on the cheap | |
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Make these skulls from expanding
foam |
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Skulls With Bloody Eyes | X | This skeleton has blood squirting eyes - - - - - - - - - | Video |
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Build this circuit that fades a
red LED light |
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A skull that would light up on the middle
of a tree limb |
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Skull Fountain | Back to top | ||
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Skull fountain made from a cheap bird bath |
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Skull Fountain that spits blood |
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Skull Fountain | X | Instructions for making a skull fountain | |
Skull Fountain II | X | Another version of the Skull Fountain | |
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Convert a cheap planter and pump into a blood fountain |
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Convert a cheap garden fountain to a skull fountain |
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Larger fountain with several skulls around center |
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Sound | Back to top | ||
Recordable Sound Box | X | Construction of a recordable sound box activated a switch | |
Scream Box | X | Build a box that screams when a switch is closed | |
Thunder on Demand | X | How to for making Thunder for your Haunt | |
Thunderstorm Sound Tracks | X | Some suggestions for Thunder Sound Tracks | |
Sources - Contact Info | Back to top | ||
Sources | X | Sources for many Haunt Items | |
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Sources for unusual items for your haunt |
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Speakers | Back to top | ||
Speakers, Amplified | X | Commercially Available speakers | |
Special Effects | Back to top | ||
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Various sources and uses for bubble machines in your haunt |
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Several effects to make a room |
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Appears to be a head floating on seat of a chair |
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Using mirrors, head appears to
float above a different body |
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Another version of the floating head concept |
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Spooks appear in an ordinary looking mirror |
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Scene appears to have a lady turning her neck 360 degrees |
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How to build a levitation effect of someone rising from a bed |
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Living Head on a Table | X | Prop with a living head on a table | |
Magic Mirror | X | Magic Mirror Prop that interacts with kids- - - - - - - - | Video |
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Instructions for making this effect |
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Make this effect using a monitor |
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Man Under Glass | X | Prop built containing a person under glass | |
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Table where live person has lower torso cut off, while alive |
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Object in the box morphs into something else before your eyes |
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How to pull this illusion off |
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Set up a portrait to have roaming
eyes |
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Basic 3D TV idea using a table and
scrim |
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How to make smoke, sparks, and
slow burning fuses |
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Detailed instructions for repairing this prop |
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As you walk along a hallway, the floor suddenly jolts to one side |
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Four different ideas of what you
could do with a room for effects. |
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Room decorated with opening
covered with scrim |
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Severed Puking Head | X | Severed puking head with Glowing Vomit | |
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Detailed instructions for creating your own shadow wall |
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A few friendly reminders about these Slime Recipes |
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Make your own slime for your haunt |
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Floor spins as people walk across it, providing the effect |
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How using shadows can help create
illusions |
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Rig a body that swoops down from
somewhere to scare people |
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Mirrors make this effect very
impressive |
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Make creepy posable things for your haunt |
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Thunder Puke | X | Audio Activated Puking Prop | |
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A Box that actually changes one object into another
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Transform one figure into another figure right before your eyes |
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Hanging threads, when you walk
through, feels like cobwebs |
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Techniques for making curtains
looked weathered |
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Spiders | Back to top | ||
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This prop is built with Styrofoam
and PVC pipe |
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Big Spider and Web | X | Large spider hanging on side of house | |
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Description of how to make a |
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A spider using the Flying Crank Ghost mechanism - - - - |
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Giant Black Widow Spider | X | Plans for building a Black Widow Spider | |
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Make this spider that lowers onto
people in your haunt |
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Making Spiders | X | Easy to make spiders using foam and Latex | |
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Make this spider with a skeleton
head |
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Giant Spider for your front yard |
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3 Dimensional 10’ x 10’ spider |
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Cool looking Trick-or-Treating
Candy dispenser |
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Spider, Giant - Roof | X | A giant spider from everyday items | |
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Construction plans for this 24' spider |
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Make several of these spiders and
place them by your house |
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How to make a glowing nest of
spiders |
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Quick and easy method of making a
victim |
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Chicken Wire molded victim |
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Spider Web | Back to top | ||
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How to make, buy, and use |
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Giant Spider Web Victim | X | A victim made from Blucky Skeleton | |
Glowing Cobwebs | X | How to make those cobwebs glow under black light | |
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Make a Spider web that glows in
the dark under black light |
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Convert a Hot Glue Gun to shoot
spider webs |
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Another method of converting a
glue gun to shoot spider webs |
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Homemade web spinner using an
electric drill |
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Build this pneumatic Cob Web Gun |
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Spider Web Victim | X | Life size victim wrapped in spider web | |
Spider Web, Giant | X | Another version of the giant spider web | |
Spider Webs Made Easy | X | Make this large spider web yourself | |
Spider Web, Morbid Meadows | X | Build a square spider web | |
Spider Web Plans | X | Make this 20’ giant spider web | |
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Make this inexpensive web spinner |
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Static Displays | Back to top | ||
Alien Eggs | X | Paper Mache’ Eggs for props | |
Alien-Pops Alien | X | PVC figure for handing out treats | |
Army of Darkness Scene | X | Instruction for standing skeletons in positions | |
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Static Display of a corpse coming out of a grave |
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Large bag of bones in a crate on display |
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Boarded Up Windows | X | Make boarded up windows with foam boards | |
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This piece was made to fit around a person in a cauldron |
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Step by Step instructions for making a realistic looking cannon |
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How to make a plant that |
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Make a witch’s finger card holder |
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Death and the Evil Geniuses | X | Robed Death figure looms above your haunt | |
Death Awaits | X | Monster Mud Grim Reaper | |
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These props are small, but pack a wallop. |
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Donation Box that's Illuminated | X | A 4 foot tall Donation Box with Illuminated Sign | |
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Various methods of decorating a doorway for a haunt |
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The monster Dragons are made from
Paper Mache’ |
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Make this vacancy sign for your crypt |
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This is cool, using blood running
through a skeleton head |
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Ways to use these fake pumpkins |
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Made from left over styrofoam
blocks. Looks Good. |
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Burial scene for Flat Owl on a raised bed |
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Here’s a How-To on constructing a
carriage |
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Build a Gallows of Hanging Skeletons
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Make skull book ends and pen holders |
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Giant Alien Stalk Creature | X |
Alien creature made from air duct hose and great stuff
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Good tutorial of how to build these |
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Make this display of a creature sitting in darkness
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Updated info on improvements made for this prop
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Grave Digger Shack | X | Eerie looking structure housing the grave digger | |
Guy Hanging through ceiling | X | Appears to be someone who fell through the ceiling | |
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Half a coffin sticking out of ground |
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Easy to make signs for an
interesting Halloween |
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Making a totem sign is a good way to use up odd lumber |
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Skeleton in a hanging cage like a locked away child |
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Build a spooky sign to announce
your haunt |
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Make your own cornfield for your scarecrows to live in |
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Re-decorate an old mirror to look spooky |
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Torso popping out of the ground holding a pumpkin head |
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Make a full size hearse with a Bucky Driver |
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Suspend a Heart prop in Jell-O on your lab table for effect |
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Create professional looking, but inexpensive business signs |
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Turn your living room into a Little
Shop Of Horrors |
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Make a human head out of Jell-O for display |
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Use a duck decoy to make this scene work |
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How to Make A Tarpit | X | Make this static display of someone in a tarpit | |
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Use your computer to make
Halloween Signs |
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Heads appear to be floating in the
air at night |
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Make this paper mache demon plant |
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Prop with a skull dangling from
chains can be easily made |
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Jeep from Hell | X | Jeep prop with a skeleton driving | |
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Make this street sign using flower pots and PVC Pipe |
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Make this from chicken wire and
paper mache |
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Turn sweet little doll babies into
Little Ghoulies |
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Life size doll made to stand in
yard |
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Carve and paint styrofoam to look
like old wooden planks |
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Make a sign using Crayola Model Magic |
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Make this wall sconce for atmosphere in your haunt |
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Good pictures of how to make this prop |
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Build this giant moth that sits around waiting for victims |
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Monster Mud Daisy made with Bucky
Skull |
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Make these weird looking things from Great Stuff Foam |
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Make an old looking door from Styrofoam |
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Pirates of the Heights | X | Pirate scene. Making various pirate props | |
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Make these alien pods that appear
to be ready to pop |
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Status prop of a lighted pumpkin
on a pole |
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Stack Jack-O-Lanterns on a pole
and light them up |
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Make these cool looking creatures rising up from the ground |
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Large figure coming out of the
ground |
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This is huge tree made from
Monster Mud |
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Skeleton Hanging with a real hangman’s noose |
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Instructions for making old looking signs for your haunt . |
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Statue made from PVC pipe, chicken
wire, and Great Stuff |
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Pictorial illustration of how to
build these realistic looking stocks |
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Swamp Thang | X | Large eerie static monster | |
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Converting a cheap $1 sword to something very cool |
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An old toilet with red puke all
over it |
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A way to make toxic waste look like it was really toxic |
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UFO Construction | X | Build this UFO Prop | |
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Huge Dragon made from PVC, Chicken wire, and monster mud |
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Whispering Walls | X | Subtle prop, walls that whisper - - - - - - - - - - - - | Whisper MP3 |
Witches | Back to top | ||
Animated Witch | X | Simple Animatronic-Witch stirring a caldron | |
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A bubbling cauldron with bubbles |
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Easy prop to make that is very |
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Bubbling Brew Witch | X | Build this witch stirring her cauldron - - - - - - - - - | video |
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Make a Witches cauldron from chicken wire and paper mache |
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Fog comes rolling out of the top of the caldron |
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Homemade Cauldron | X | Make a Witches Caldron from a laundry basket | |
Low Budget Witches Cauldron | X | Make this low budget Fogging Witches Caldron | |
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Make your own realistic cauldron from a plastic 55 gal. drum |
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Adding holders to your cauldron |
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Make your own book of spells with
a gothic type cover |
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Animated witch standing there
stirring a cauldron |
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Animated skull on the witch talks |
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Witch and her Brew | X | Witch stirring a pot of “brew” | |
Witch and her Cemetery Stew | X | Prop uses fog machine to produce smoke out of a caldron | |
Witch on a Roof | X | Plans to build this simple static display | |
Witch How To | X | Video instructions-how to make a Witch Stirring a Cauldron | |
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Witch stirs the cauldron while head moves back and forth |
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Witches Caldron | X | Make this cool looking witches caldron | |
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Make the cool looking Witch Head from Paper Mache’ |
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Witches Incantation | X | Sample incantation | |
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Motorized Witch Stirring her cauldron |
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Zombie | Back to top | ||
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Make this zombie with chicken wire |
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Ground Breaker Zombie | X | This is motorized using a neck massager | |
How to make a Zombie Heads | X | Using corpsing techniques, making zombie heads is easy, | |
Zombie | X | An animatronic zombie head - - - - - - - - - - - - | Videos Eyes, Nodd Mouth, neck, side |
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Skeleton moving, trying to escape his grave |
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Zombie Hands | X | Arms made from wood or wire coat hangers | |
Zombie Arms | X | Zombie Arms for your graveyard | |
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Animated Zombie in a coffin |
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