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So I have been apartment bound these last 8 years... However, we will be moving into a nice house this ides of August.
The difficulty I face is two fold - I have zero props and the house is GREAT for Halloween (end of a short cul-de-sac with a raised above the road yard), but its porch is a non-existent concrete pathway to a two step 3x3' slab. The yard is about 4' higher than the road, a skinny triangular shape (with the narrow point toward the road, 15' by the drivveway x 20' along the house x a solid hedge along the property line), with good cover from the hedge.
Normally, I would scarecrow myself and haunt the front porch (I'm not a minimalist, I'm a pragmatist). But with such a non-existent porch to work off of, my instinct is to pull away from the house and haunt the yard... It has good cover from the street as it is raised and planted so ToTs wouldn't be able to see much until they were on the driveway. My first thought is a cemetery with a cauldron witch or coffin jumper or some such focal point...
But a decade of apartment living has left me prop-less and without a garage of raw materials to draw from. To make matters worse time is at a premium, as the domestic move comes with a move of my office.
Yet still, I have been off prop building for almost 10 years - damn it this is my first Halloween with an actual yard in almost a decade! Someone is going to scream on my front lawn this year if it gets me arrested! This is a MORAL IMPERATIVE!
So, what I am hoping to crowd source from the ever inventive and somberly scary bunch that you are, is a few ideas that are simple to build, work in an open environment, wont bankrupt me as I have no backstock, and (heaven help me) realizing that I don't have the time needed to build multiple projects.
Thus far the ideas are:
I would vastly appreciate your input and ideas.
The difficulty I face is two fold - I have zero props and the house is GREAT for Halloween (end of a short cul-de-sac with a raised above the road yard), but its porch is a non-existent concrete pathway to a two step 3x3' slab. The yard is about 4' higher than the road, a skinny triangular shape (with the narrow point toward the road, 15' by the drivveway x 20' along the house x a solid hedge along the property line), with good cover from the hedge.
Normally, I would scarecrow myself and haunt the front porch (I'm not a minimalist, I'm a pragmatist). But with such a non-existent porch to work off of, my instinct is to pull away from the house and haunt the yard... It has good cover from the street as it is raised and planted so ToTs wouldn't be able to see much until they were on the driveway. My first thought is a cemetery with a cauldron witch or coffin jumper or some such focal point...
But a decade of apartment living has left me prop-less and without a garage of raw materials to draw from. To make matters worse time is at a premium, as the domestic move comes with a move of my office.
Yet still, I have been off prop building for almost 10 years - damn it this is my first Halloween with an actual yard in almost a decade! Someone is going to scream on my front lawn this year if it gets me arrested! This is a MORAL IMPERATIVE!
So, what I am hoping to crowd source from the ever inventive and somberly scary bunch that you are, is a few ideas that are simple to build, work in an open environment, wont bankrupt me as I have no backstock, and (heaven help me) realizing that I don't have the time needed to build multiple projects.
Thus far the ideas are:
- cauldron witch, likely with a live actor stirring the brew
- spider on the roof that drops down when the Tots hit the door, the legs will have to move or it might as well be a falling rock
- cable witch from a tree, over the driveway, to the porch
- coffin jumper, complete with dug grave and candy hand out seated next to