Thread: Your Top Easy Prop

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I have just been given permission to decroate my sisters house! I am limited on time and even more limited on funds. Just wondering what everyones favorite quick, easy AND CHEAP idea is!
(I'm thinking home-made stuffed dummy in a chair type stuff)

Yup,old clothes,pvc and a mask and you got a dummy.Real easy.

spiderwebs out of the bag are about the cheapest, easiest, most coverage, easily avaibable thing I know of.

Do pvc dummies stand up well?

Store-bought tombstones - get a half dozen, and instant graveyard.

Lights are a really big effect for little money. Change out the porch light with a green or purple bulb and you get a spooky effect. We switch out our floodlights on our garage too - green, but blue would be nice also.

Pumpkins - jack o' lanterns are a must for Halloween.

Cobwebs and/or shred some cheesecloth and drape over porch rails or bushes.

Ring of ghosts: http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and...&craftid=10765

Giant spider web (we do this but with fuzzy gray yarn bought on clearance and only about 8 feet total circumference on a wall leading up to our front door - very cool and CHEAP, not counting Webigail, our resident 3' spider):
http://www.my-mania.com/halloween/web.html

If she has a porch and some old sheer curtains you can shred up, they look kinda spooky flapping in the breeze.

To make my pvc props stand I use a metal stake, but a dowel pounded in the ground would work also. That keeps them quite sturdy. A couple of pvc props, cheap tombstones,(check Dollar Tree out), spider webs, a couple of ghost with cheese cloth or tulle hanging around, and you would have a nice plus reasonably priced display

I'm partial to scarecrows myself. I can't seem to get the dummies to ever look right.

$3.00 coat, $2.00 light inside, had the 2x4's and hat laying around, paper mache head, sticks picked up from neighbors yard.



If you find someone with torches still, they should be aweful cheap right about now too.

I think the lighting is the easiest part.

I think we will do a colored light, scary sounds cd, window covers, and a dummy of some persuasion. Thanks for the ideas everyone!