Thread: Walls for a School Haunt???

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I know that we discuss wall how to's very much on this site...I am doing a school haunt this year and I want to know...how would I be able to inexpensively as possible put walls up in a classroom with just the four main walls...ie - no walls or supports running through the room???? What can I make them from? What will support them???? THANKS

Have you thought of pipe and drape?
Other than that I would just use the walls in there and buy some of those wall clinging sheets that I think Party America carries.

When I use to work on School Haunts, we used draping. Lots of cloth. We hung it around the four main walls, and then ran string across the room and hung it up on the strings in certain places to make walls to a path. It worked great. We painted some of the cloth with hand-prints and "blood splatter" and set a black light on it so it would show up bright. But anyways, cloth works well. We placed stuff along the walls, like hay-stacks, so that nobody would get close to the cloth, and not fall through.

Depending on how much work you want to do, you can make cardboard/paper mache walls for cheap. We have succesfully used carpet tubes for framing (free). There is some work involved building the wall panels, maybe the kids could do a class paper mache session or something. There is a somewhat unorganized webpage here.

Thanks for the ideas Zeltino...Johnny...excellent work with the carpet tubes!!! I will pm you because I want more details...