Which do kids love most--to scare others or be scared themselves? Either way, turn your home, indoors and out, into the neighborhood fright night center. Fast and simple projects are easy to put up, take down, and store. Make them yourself or invite the kids to help. The windows of your front door become a goblin's glowing, glaring eyes; add a malevolent toothy grin dripping with blood. Hand the Grim Reaper (with papier mache skull and gold-foil scythe) on the porch post, where he can greet your guests. Just like Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz you can have a Melted Witch: simply lay black cloth in a heap with a hat on top and pointy shoes. (Add dry ice for a special effect!) Even make jack-o-lanterns out of painted stones that no vandal can smash. Indoors, projects abound to create a truly haunted house!
Turn your home into the neighborhood fright night center with fast and simple projects you can make yourself, or with the kids’ help. The windows of your front door become a goblin’s glowing, glaring eyes; add a malevolent toothy grin dripping with blood. Hang a papier-mâché Grim Reaper on a porch post, where the breeze will blow him to and fro. You can even make jack-o’-lanterns out of painted stones. Projects abound to create a truly haunted house.