How Do You Give Trick-Or-Treaters A Scare?
Give those pesky trick-or-treaters something to scream about. Hang an artificial spiderweb or dangling string that trick-or-treaters have to walk into or through on the way to your door. 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. Play a tape or CD of scary sounds in the background. 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. 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. Dress up as a mummy, witch, ghost or ghoul, and answer the door with a growl or howl. Paint your jack-o-lanterns white. Outline scary facial features
