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Creepy Manor
by W.Holidays

Decorating Indoors & Out

Outside:

• Hang a garlic strand on your front door.
• Board up the windows with cardboard painted to look like wooden boards. Attach spiders and creepy hands. Let some slime (from the toy department) drip down.
• Replace the porch light with a black light bulb.
• Make a large spider web out of white yarn (the black light will make it glow).
• If leaving a pumpkin by the door or on the walkway, light with glow sticks or a flickering flashlight (available just about anywhere during the season).  Avoid candles, it is too easy for a costume to catch on fire, especially with small children.
• Suspend sheets from trees to look like ghosts, use a balloon for the head.

Inside:

• Remove all knick-knacks and clutter to give an empty feeling.
• Cover the furniture with white sheets.
• Sprinkle cornstarch on the tables to look like dust.
• Place plastic bugs about the room.
• Place a skeleton in the closet.
• Replace bulbs with low wattage and orange bulbs.
• Put some slime on the mirrors.
• Write backwards on the windows and/or mirrors with bar soap (not liquid soap) to look like someone's trying to get out.
• Put out old towels or black ones, so good one aren't ruined with makeup.
• Dry ice is popular but it is so dangerous, instead rent a mist/fog maker for the evening or buy one to use year after year.