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HALLOWEEN PARTY 2015 - A NIGHTmare AT THE MUSEUM (themed)

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Hi Everyone,

We are in the midst of planning out the props and effects for our 15th Annual Halloween Party. For the last 2 years, we had a haunted hotel themed party, with a "steam-punk" infusion for 2014. This year, we are changing it out for an "UnNatural History Museum" theme along the lines of the Ben Stiller films, combined with Raiders of the Lost Ark, the cable show Oddities, etc. One of my friends already has dibs on coming to the party as Teddy Roosevelt.

Looking for some ideas if you have 'em to share. Decor, Props, Gags, Games, Foods... We appreciate any and all suggestions and experiences that you may have!
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Sounds like a fun theme idea!

DOLLAR TREE has a number of dinosaurs and jungle animal hard, rubbery/plastic figurines in the Toy Dept. if you need any for a place holder or maybe a costume award trophy.

Large Plastic Toy Dinosaurs

Plastic Toy Dinosaurs

Plastic Jungle Animal Figurines

Last time I was in my local HARBOR FREIGHT they still had these wooden cutout dinosaur skeleton kits. Several different models, not expensive. They were in their kind of limited kids/toy area. Those might look nice on a table or buffet area. .....Here found a few links to a few of the balsa wood dinos on their website AND THEY ARE ON SALE FOR 1.39 right now:

Apatoaurus

T-Rex

I bought a few of these a while back. My store had I think 5-6 different dinos. I remember a Triceratops and a Stegosaurus. Not sure what else they had. They come in a flat package similar in size to a movie DVD you'd find in the stores. I probably bought my set back in the spring or summer last year so their stock might be getting low and once sold out probably won't restock. Easy enough to hit them with some white/bone colored paint and/or age them.
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Oh crap Pumpkinpie, not a DaveLowe creation! I love his stuff. Now I'm getting enticed to decorate for xmas too! That's a really clever idea to add the snow monster to a Santa scene and Pumpkinpie, that's a super idea to do dino feet like that.

BTW, garden centers that carry frost cloth/landscaping weed cloth sell these giant size staples that you can anchor your frost cloth covered plants or weed fabric to the ground so the wind doesn't blow it away. I'm thinking these pins would work great to hold the foot print cloth down and would be pretty invisible. We ordered our pins from someone else but here's a company that carries them to show you what I'm talking about. http://frostproof.com/dewitt-6-x-1-x-6-11-gauge-anchor-pins-75-per-box/ We purchased DeWitt brand pins but there might be other manufacturers out there.
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We live in a two story house and one of our side yards with a lot of wall to it has a decent space before our fence with our neighbor. Last year I bought some of those Harbor Freight dinos mentioned above and have some plastic toys ones too and thought I could put them on our BBQ island in the side yard and shine a strong light on them to cast a giant shadow of dinos up and onto our two story house wall. TOTers coming to our house will see this shadow wall because of how our house is situated to the street and I thought it would be a cool effect. Depending on your set up some shadow casting might work for you on a house wall or garage doors perhaps?
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Noticed one of my Harbor Freight balsa wood dino skeleton puzzles on a shelf so thought I would show the models that are out there. AT 1.39 each they are cheap enough to be used as a give away at the end of the evening.



Since these are built from "puzzle" pieces you could always take the individual pieces and enlarge them and create a bigger dino for your display.
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