Thread: Ideas for black light room

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I'm looking for any ideas for objects to add to a black light room that TOT's need to walk through to reach the graveyard. I have some spider webbing, insects, a cheezy skeleton, some neon toadstools, flying bat and a ghoul that hangs from the ceiling, but that's about it. I'm going to be in the room as a ghost with glowing eyes, but I need some more stuff and ideas. The room is approx 10 ft by 10 ft and there really isn't room for shelves or anything. My FCG is located elsewhere. And I have jars of glowing stuff at the witches station....
So, any ideas of spooky/creepy stuff that I could add in?

Blacklight strobes

Get some cheap fabric from the $1 bin at Walmart. Rip/cut the fabric into long, ragged strips with tentacles (lack of a better word). Hang/drape the pieces everywhere. It'll look cheesy during the day, but it gets creepy at night.



This is what I did last year, and I'm doing it again this year. The drawing doesn't really do it justice.

You could also break up the 10 x 10 room with plastic sheeting to make a mini-maze. Black lights above and glowing objects at turns.

Cool Trader Sam! Did you put UV reactive paint or something on the edges of the cloth to make it glow, or is that just in the drawing to that you can see it? So...the cloth will obscure some of the deorations and make it more interesting for people to navigate the room. I like it. Not sure about making a mini-maze. The ceiling is rather high and not solid (think eaves here). I'm not sure if that'll work, but that's a very cool idea.
Please keep them coming people!!!

Get some rit whitener and soak strips of cheese cloth in it. Let it dry and hang it up! It looks really cool having a bunch of it hanging from the ceiling. It is a little disorenting and really brighens up a completly dark space!

I've been to one haunt that had a poka-dot room. Essentially It was a black room with all these flourecent poka-dots on the walls, all lit up with black-lights. It appears fairly disorienting to the patron, specially when actors dressed in all black with poka-dots start stalking them.

Originally Posted by sheepies666

Cool Trader Sam! Did you put UV reactive paint or something on the edges of the cloth to make it glow, or is that just in the drawing to that you can see it? So...the cloth will obscure some of the deorations and make it more interesting for people to navigate the room. I like it. Not sure about making a mini-maze. The ceiling is rather high and not solid (think eaves here). I'm not sure if that'll work, but that's a very cool idea.
Please keep them coming people!!!

No, that's just my drawing. But, that would be a pretty cool idea; I hadn't thought of that!

They're also good for hiding spiders, bats, corpses, and whatnot that could drop down and scare everyone.

ghosthunter, great idea! Maybe combined with the black fabric from Trader Sam's idea.
Graverobber, I know what you're talking about. Those rooms are really cool and pretty disorienting. But I'm not sure if I want to do one this year. They tend to work better when you have a longer area than I've got, so that the walker's eyes have time to get disoriented. I'm thinking my space might be too small for that unless I can figure out a way to add in a maze so that there's at least 20 feet of room that they're walking through.
Great ideas everyone! Keep them coming!!!! Much more original than anything I was thinking of.

Well, we took another look at our space this weekend and we think that we can make the room into a tunnel with a divider in the middle, so that it runs 10 feet to the end, makes a left turn, then 10 feet back again. Thanks for the idea Chirs W!!!
So...now we have "more" space to fill, lol! Any more suggestions are appreciated.