Thread: What do YOU do to scare the TOTs?

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I am running out of ideas to scare the tots for this halloween. Each year I dress up and become part of my display, and then when they least expect it, I jump out and scare them or I will follow them around until they turn around and im right there.

I have done the Chainsaw bit, Micheal Myers, and this past year i dressed up as a Scary Scarecrow and stood on a stump with my arms pinned up until somebody walked by and then I jumped down and scared them.

Any ideas on what to try this year? What does everybody else here do that is somewhat like this where they become part of the display and then jump out?

Thanks!

I'm unqualified to post here...can't even scare our TOT's yet, 'cause our neighborhood is full of little ones...but I CAN think of ways to get them when they're a bit older, hurhurhur....hmmmmm...right now I think just the pvc/chicken wire creatures I have planned might be enough to do the trick. ;-)

Since alot of TOT's focus is on the CANDY, you could have the hand reaching out and grabbing them from the candy bowl, or the dress up as a dummy holding the candy bowl that they have to help themselves from tricks.
If your house has an upper deck of some sort you could have someone startle them from above when they walk under it. Or someone dressed normally from the back turn and scare them up close with a mask on.

LOL yeah those are always great. The ones in my pics are all made with the pvc/chicken wire method, but whats even more fun is that the TOTs think that ALL the monster/creatures are fake and when all of a sudden one of them comes alive (you) and jumps out at them they freak! :-) Its even better when the next year they try to guess which one is you and they are always wrong when you come up from behind them and scare them. :-)

one year i had a big box with a mannequin just peeking over the top. the kids were all keeping an eye on the box just knowing the creature was going to pop up but my daughter was in a closet behind them and jumped out.
another year we hung folds of white material all over the room. then my sister put on a white wig, white gloves, painted her face white, and draped herself in folds of white material. the kids would come in an stand right in front of her and not notice her till she jumped at them.
another year we hung glow in the dark masks all over a darkened room. then my grandson and another haunter dressed all in black and donned a mask. the kids had to walk into the room and get an item. they couldn't tell the difference between the masks and the haunters.
i built a coffin and put a handle on the inside of the closed lid. we had an open viewing with a mannequin in the viewing area. i gave a short eullogy and then the kid hiding in the closed part of the coffin would pop up.

Originally Posted by Laurie S.

right now I think just the pvc/chicken wire creatures I have planned might be enough to do the trick. ;-)

That's my girl! The chicken wire is so much easier to work with instead of newspaper or grocery plastic bags.

In another thread, hallorenescene mentioned that when she was a kid a neighbor came out dressed all disheveled and acting crazy and telling the kids to come into the basement and check out what he was building. What a great idea to act deranged. That would be cool to act like a mad scientist and keep inviting the kids into your basement to check out what you're building. But, you'd have to act so over-the-top though that none of them would actually want to come in and also so that they realize that you're in character and not really wanting to bring them in the house to cause them harm.

Originally Posted by Haunted Host

What a great idea to act deranged. That would be cool to act like a mad scientist and keep inviting the kids into your basement to check out what you're building.

Oooh, that IS a great idea! I guess since we don't have a basement though, it would have to be things we're building in the uh--shed? Yeah, the shed!! That sucker could easily have a good creep factor goin' on...

Not my idea, but a good one, so I'll pass it on. One of the neighbors down the street had a cemetery display and had piled leaves up in front of some of the tombstones, you know, like covering the grave. Well, they got one of the older teens to lie in front of a tombstone covered with leaves. The TOTers would walk up to the porch right past him, and then on the way BACK, he would jump up at them. You could hear the screaming all over the neighborhood. It was sweet!

Thanks for all the great ideas guys, and girls! Keep em Coming! Im sure Im not the only one appreciating these ideas and reading what everybody else does.