[Haunt On A Dime]

Want to share a picture with you all. The haunt turned out great, the best house in the neighborhood by far. Everything is handmade, which makes it more fun to share with everyone. I'll be adding a video of a walk through very soon. I believe that all in all I haunted this year for around $70.



I'd love to see your haunts as well. Comment with a picture.

UPDATE: Here is the video. Apparently I have no idea how to film great looking film with a GoPro, because this was the highest quality I could get. Also, as a note, the film started and stopped while cutting off parts of the sound, so I added sound from my original recording.

Hope you enjoy

 

[Rigormortor]

Looks great! I like the giant stones with the lights. I want to build something like that for next year.

 

[ferguc]

awesome setup!!!

 

[Haunt On A Dime]

Looks great! I like the giant stones with the lights. I want to build something like that for next year.

Thanks. Those were super easy and cheap actually. I took two pre-existing shelves I had and covered them in grey construction paper and painted on the lines. The tops and bottoms were made out of free cardboard boxes from the post office (also painted).

The lights are made from a small basket I found at a dollar store that I cut the sides out of and hot glued squares of lunch bags to the inside to act as the glass. The top is made from some foam board and another, smaller, free box from the post office.

The candles inside are battery operated from the dollar store.

All in all, out of what I actually had to buy to make both pillars and lights, I used around $5 worth of materials.

I had a lot of people asking what the pillars were made out of cause they couldn't figure it out.

 

[Haunt On A Dime]

Thank you. I will post the video in a couple days, there is a whole sound track that went along with the set up of the crystal ball witch doing an incantation with Halloween songs interspersed in between the words.

 

[lizzyborden]

That's awesome! I assumed they were made out of foam and I'd love to see a close-up of those lanterns.

 

[SepiaKeys]

Awesome! I want to do pillars for next year for sure. What did you make the smaller pillars out of?

 

[Haunt On A Dime]

I took pictures of the process of making them to post as a tutorial, but haven't put them together yet. Here is a picture from last night up close.
Looking at the picture I realized I also added a Gatorade top on top of the small box, and a plastic hook upon that (2 for $1 at Dollar Tree).



I'll let you know when I put up the tutorial for the lights so you can see them in a lit room.

 

[Haunt On A Dime]

Awesome! I want to do pillars for next year for sure. What did you make the smaller pillars out of?

I made the small pillars out of cardboard. They came out to approx $.50 per pillar in materials. I have a blog post on here you can check out about them if you like: http://www.halloweenforum.com/blogs/haunt-on-a-dime/2028-50-spooky-cemetery-columns.html

Here's another shot of them in the day

 

[Goog]

It looks great and I'm digging your Pinterest boards.

 

[Ghost of Spookie]

Columns turned out great and the graveyard too. Very nice lighting. Big overall look. An inspiration to others who might be limited in funds what can be accomplished on a small budget. How many ToTers do you get?

 

[Greenwick]

Wow, I'm amazed you did all that for under $70!

 

[Haunt On A Dime]

It looks great and I'm digging your Pinterest boards.

Thank you :-D What's your Pinterest user name? I'll follow you back.

 

[Haunt On A Dime]

Columns turned out great and the graveyard too. Very nice lighting. Big overall look. An inspiration to others who might be limited in funds what can be accomplished on a small budget. How many ToTers do you get?

We got probably 150-200. It seemed less than last year which I believe is due to it being on a Sat, so families had time to drive to larger treating areas. Wasn't too bad though.

 

[Haunt On A Dime]

Video has been added to the original post.

 

[yardhauntjunkie]

Well done! The pillars are great!

 

[Haunt On A Dime]

Thank you, they were fun to make and easy to dispose of.

 

[Scott Pollard]

Love it. Good job

 

[punkineater]

Everything looks great!!! I think it takes even more brain power be creative
with inexpensive props, than to have unlimited funds. Kudos!

 

[Trex]

Love your set up, beautiful work!! How do you people get your videos edited and posted so quickly.....that amazes me??