- 1). Hang an artificial spiderweb or dangling string that trick-or-treaters have to walk into or through on the way to your door.
- 2). Inflate balloons with helium and place a white plastic garbage bag over each balloon. Tie the bag at the "neck," and you have rustling ghosts. Add scary faces with a marker if desired.
- 3). Play a tape or CD of scary sounds in the background.
- 4). Have a person dressed like a scarecrow, ghost, witch or monster sit completely still in a chair by the front door. When trick-or-treaters least expect it, have the person "come alive" and lunge at them.
- 5). Make your front yard a graveyard using Styrofoam cut into the shape of tombstones. Paint the tombstones gray, add scary "epitaphs" with a marking pen, and decorate with spiderwebs, plastic spiders and rubber bats or rats.
- 6). Dress up as a mummy, witch, ghost or ghoul, and answer the door with a growl or howl.
- 7). Paint your jack-o-lanterns white. Outline scary facial features in black paint. Put dry ice inside your carved pumpkins, along with a flashlight or other eerie light source.
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