Spooky Halloween Display Tips!

Setting up a Halloween display this October? Don't use boring plastic spiders and webbing here is ten tips on how to really make your Halloween display pop.

1.Scarecrows: Nothing's creepier than a scarecrow covered in blood! They are cheap to make and will surely scare anyone coming on or near your display. Dress them up with blood and give them spooky equipment like a plastic scythe or a knife.

2. Coffins: If you know a good craftsmen building a coffin can be inexpensive and fun! If you don't you can buy them relatively cheap. You can open them up to display a spooky figure or leave them closed and jump out at people walking by.

3. Live action: Use live people in your display. Have them stand around in the crowd of scarecrows and have them suddenly jump to live when passer bys come. Or for a little fun have someone hide in a coffin and when people walk by jump out and spook them. You'll have them running so hard they'll probably leave their candy on your doorstep.

4. Scary music: Play a backtrack hidden in a bush or a window. Spooky sound CD's can be bought from almost anywhere during the season. Get one with spooky chain rattling and ghosts howling in the night.

5. Strobe Lights: Place a strobe light right near where your moving spooks will be because it gives the illusion that they aren't moving at the same time they are. Leaving kids to think oh it was just my imagination that the scarecrow moved.

6. Fog: Scare the wits out of the neighbor kids with some fog to cast over your yard. If you think your yard is spooky wait till the kids are walking through a fog and having things jump out at them.

7. Tricky candy bowl: Want to get one last scream out of the kids before they take your candy and leave? Take a candy bowl and cleverly cut a hole in the bottom, then set it on a table with a hole to match. Make sure you but some kid of support on the hole that can't fall into the hole but will push out, like a piece of cardboard slightly bigger than the hole. Once set on the table aligned with the hole, hide under the table. Once an unsuspecting kid tries to grab a handful of candy, Thrust your hand through the hole and scare the kid away.

8.Spooky candy: Don't get boring chocolate or candy corn get candy that everyone will recognize and say oh yah I remember that house. You can get gummy eyes or body parts or insects. They are all equally disgustingly gross.

9. Make them think twice!: When they walk up to get the candy make them think twice. Have spooky creatures set up all around the area so they are so scared they practically can't reach for candy. If you want to get the real good have one of your live scarecrows sit in a chair and hold the candy bowl, pretending to be fake. When the kid reaches in boo! Jump up and scare the living wits out of the kid.

10. Small decorations make a difference: Don't just stress the big parts of your display but have a lot of little things to. Try hanging chains on walls that conveniently clack together. Lot's of plastic insects and fake limbs laying around to. If you do it right you'll have the whole town coming to see your display!