How to Create a Scary Halloween House

Make your house the creepiest mansion on the block this Halloween. Our neighborhood goes all out for Halloween and I have collected the best tips to make your house super scary. You can scare kids and adults with a few simple Halloween tricks.

Scary House Necessity #1: Scarecrow

I know, scarecrows are not that scary, but hear me out on this one. A week before Halloween, buy a very large pumpkin and carve it. Make sure the face is scary. Now cut a big hole in the bottom of the pumpkin that is big enough to put your head into. Stuff a pair of jeans and a flannel shirt with leaves and place your scarecrow on a lounge chair right next to the path to your front door.

On Halloween night, trade out your leaf-filled scarecrow with your live scarecrow. Lie in wait for trick-or-treaters. The kids in the neighborhood have seen your scarecrow out all week and won't suspect a thing. All you have to do now is scare up some fun.

Scary House Necessity #2: Graveyard

Every scary house has a graveyard in the front yard. You can easily recreate a graveyard with plywood and spray paint.

Cut the plywood into gravestones and spray paint them gray. Attach two wooded spikes to the bottom so that they can be pounded into the ground. Now you're ready to paint the inscription.

Be creative and scary with the inscriptions. You could make gravestones for Frankenstein, Dracula, and even Casper. Of course, the graves are empty and you can prove it by buying these famous scary Halloween decorations and placing them throughout your yard. The dead have come to life!

You can add to the scary house effect by placing cobwebs in trees and shrubs. I love the skeleton parts that look like they are coming out of the ground. You can put a skeleton at each gravesite to give your trick-or-treaters and extra scare.

Scary House Necessity #3: Lights and Music

A scary house is not complete without creepy lights and music. Replace your front porch light with a red or green bulb.

You can get a CD or download MP3 for your scary music on Halloween night. Keep the lights in your house dark and have the music floating out the windows.

If you are really up for a scary Halloween challenge, get a fog machine and put it in your graveyard or the shrubs by your front door. Spooky lights and a fog machine will make an eerie effect.

It is easy to transform your normal house into the scariest house on the block this Halloween. The kids will be talking about your scary Halloween house well into January.