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Does anyone use any water features? What is your design? How does it work? What effects do you use with it? What climate are you prepared for (snow, wind?).

Let me know because we are having two water features in our home haunt this year.

(...and, um, Attn: webmaster: WATER is an atmosphere. Yes?)

No pics yet (because I haven't built it!), but I'm planning on having one of the skels "drinking" from a moonshine jug. Just got a medium-sized fountain pump, some clear plastic tubing, and a HD bucket for the skel to sit on. I'll tie-wrap him to a rebar post so he can't get up and wander away...

We're in DC, so it'll be toasty on our high unholy holiday. Doubt we'll EVER get snow again!!! I don't have to worry about the weather as much as I do the neighborhood punks.

Some people use puking props or spitting props. Is that a water feature?

I'm all smoke and mirrors.... err... so to speak. No water features although I did consider using mist in my trashcan pop up.

Oh, I do have a bubbling glowing jug in my science lab/witch table/whatever setup.

I've used a very large tub for a boiling blood scene. I hung a prop over it and then used a fish bubbler to make it boil. I put in red food dye to get the water red. It was placed on our front porch so it was warmer then if it was out in the yard. Though the porch is not enclosed. I filled it that night before the tot's showed up. We are partial to low 40's to the 20's for the night and windy, rainy or even snow. Minnesota can be real fickle. Never had a prob. and we dumped the tub when we shut off the lights so didn't have an ice chunk the next day.

The only "water" feature I've ever used was... well, wasn't even water, it was punch. Just a little pump in a cauldron filled with punch. Tube runs up through the top of the cauldron and through the head of a foam skull and out his mouth.

I'd like to incorporate water next year. SInce I'm doing a pirate-theme I think I could and should do something with water.

Last yr I had a lizard laying on a rock in a pond with a skull fountain. The water running out of the skull was a nice distraction from the lizard who really surprised everyone by spitting at them LOL We didnt worry about weather as it was indoors. There was no heat in the old house but it wasnt cold enough to freeze a kiddie pool.

I dont have a pic of the final project but it was almost finished this pic was taken.

Originally Posted by NewbieHaunter

Last yr I had a lizard laying on a rock in a pond with a skull fountain. The water running out of the skull was a nice distraction from the lizard who really surprised everyone by spitting at them LOL We didnt worry about weather as it was indoors. There was no heat in the old house but it wasnt cold enough to freeze a kiddie pool.

I dont have a pic of the final project but it was almost finished this pic was taken.

What did you use to make the lizard spit a mist of water?

Originally Posted by DeadTed

The only "water" feature I've ever used was... well, wasn't even water, it was punch. Just a little pump in a cauldron filled with punch. Tube runs up through the top of the cauldron and through the head of a foam skull and out his mouth.

I'd like to incorporate water next year. SInce I'm doing a pirate-theme I think I could and should do something with water.

Now that you mention it... I did a fountain for our first Halloween party in the new house. Just a re-make of the project on the old ACC website. Had punch running out of the mouth of a Bucky skull and into a box-covered punchbowl. Loved it, but there was some splashback... The floor was a MESS from the spray!

Voodoo, that came out great! I like that alot.

Last year I had a head hanging on a hook and blood (colored water) was running down from the severed neck. Small fountain pump and ran tubing through the prop head. I also had a mist maker in the tub underneath, but it wouldn't function after I died the water red. I don't know what that was all about! You can see the head toward the right of the picture, next to the witch. I've also used the same pump in the past in a birdbath type fountain, pumping through a skull. I'll probably use the pump again this year in some fashion, and maybe the mist maker.

Don't have to really worry about it freezing solid at that time of year in Chicago.