Thread: What is your technique for scaring the tots this year?

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What is your technique for scaring the tots this year? Mine is i am going to overwelm their senses. sight, sound feel. In my dot room i am going to hang fishing wire to give them fealing i am going to have a black light obiously and i am going to put a cool laser effect in along with fog and a strobe light. AND LOUD CREEPY MUSIC!!!

Hello, everyone I’m new to the forum. Just wanted to say that its awesome that i'm not the only crazy Halloween nut out there!

Anyways....
This year along with the regular yard hauntings (graveyard, eerie music, black lights, and fog) I have recruited actors (my younger cousins) to scare the TOT's. Some will be wondering the yard in there gruesome costumes looking for blood to suck. But other will be posing as decorations. The front entrance of my house has a stoop of sorts, and when the TOT's are at the door, there back is to the rest of the stoop. This is where one of the supposed decorations, and when the time is right they will jump out and grab the TOT's. Obviously not scaring the little one too much though, that's not very nice.

When TOTers enter my house, they all go into a large vestibule where TOTers OVER 13 get a bag of chips or gift bag...but kids 13 or under will play a round of 'pumpkin plinko' (just like on "The Price is Right.") Depending of which slot the disk falls into, they will receive a numbered ticket and advance to the 'Treasure Room.'

But before that, the next 'room' 'is boxed off by black duvetine fabric. The 'room' is only 4'X4'. So they are pretty much in a small black box. I am dressed as an evil clown. I place only my face through the curtain at 'child height where there is a small clown suit pinned to the curtain. (Like a circus picture cut-out where people put their faces through.) Then, I throw back the curtain and STAND UP! AAaaahhhhhh!

They then hand me their ticket and get their 'prize.' The weird thing is that this scares older kids more than younger ones. For VERY young TOTs, I don't do the scary reveal.

Previous year's 'Treasure Room:'

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/pixbyb...47.jpg&.src=ph

Living statues

This year I will take last years costume and place him in the same spot as last year,lawn chair near porch entry.(complete with empty beer bottle next to it)While they are contimplating if "I" am real again the real me will come out of bushes in my stalkabout and basically scare the nikes off of them.No One knows whats in store(they all think my stalkabout is just going to be a static scare crow type prop).

I dunno what my technique will be yet. Oh well theres still a few more days to go until fright night. I should come up with something by then.

I don't want to scare them too much... I'm thinking maybe that's why I got less of em last year and the year before than before that-- because they were too scared to come to my house! Last year I think we got 2-3 small groups...

We're way smaller this year than in past years, the crowds were getting out of hand, people were lined up for over an hour. This year, to keep things moving, we'll only be doing a Raffle for prizes. Candy, Nuts, Chips, Gum, plus Cap Guns for the boys, Jacks for the girls, Books (Coloring, Comics and a few hardcover Books for kids) Frisbees, Laser Pointers, DVD's and the Big Prizes, CD and DVD Players.
After the raffle, we'll select one person from each group to pull a "Bonus Prize". Of course, ALL the "Bonus Prize" tags read "Chain Saw". You can figure out the rest. We shut off all the lights, switch on a Strobe Light, kill the theme music and replace it with the Psycho Shower Scene music at 80 db, and chase them down a Hall.

Outside, they can view the Graveyard, a few static props (the Bottomless Pit is always a big hit) and a new animatronic Witch. She's fitted out with lasers in her eyes. As she turns her head beams of red light pass through the fog bank she's standing in. I want to set her up so that, as her head turns all the way to her left, the rays are shining right at the TOT's standing at the front of the line. They have to pass between two Pillars that have gargoyles mounted on them. They enter a 18'x28' "Cave" where we hold the Raffle.

I've often felt that "not knowing" can be scarrier than in your face stuff. Our neighborhood also has loads of very young tot's so for us it will be multiple soundtracks of spooky jungle sounds emanating from different parts of the haunt along with drums and chanting coming from the headhunters hut. There is however no headhunter to be seen, only the shrunken heads of his victims.
I'm sure that I'll have occasion to coment to the tot's that we're never sure where the sneaky little bilge rat will turn up and that they should keep an eye out for him. Ah, the power of suggestion.

DB

Boo Who? that is a cool idea of prize room.
Dusza Beben, any pics of your haunt?