KING'S INEXPENSIVE HOME HALLOWEEN IDEAS
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NOTICE:
Dear Reader: My family and I lost our home in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005. We lost all of the Halloween decorations listed on this site which for years we have created and posted for your enjoyment and use.
Click here to see photos of the damage.
As you can tell, Halloween for us was the most fun time of the year. For years and years my children and I have gotten together to build the latest new item, then photographed it, and put them on the website, for everyone to enjoy. This website shows you how to make great decorations all by yourself, and with little cost involved.
NEW IDEAS HAVE BEEN ADDED FOR 2008! Please support us as we will be hosting the Grand View RV Park and Cabins Haunted House in Altamont, TN. Come by for a visit starting the second weekend in October, 2008. Click on the website link for details.
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Very Sincerely, Kimberly King
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DECORATION PHOTO GALLERY
(To read the details of how the ideas listed below are created
or made please click HERE)
New for 2008: Vampire Coffin
Made using a simple mask over a milk jug. The coffin was built from wood, painte black. But cardboard would work too. Used old red curtains bought from Goodwill, along with an old suit. Put vampire teeth in his mouth for effect.
New for 2008: Coffin Plans
Here are the dimensions of what a simple coffin.
New for 2008: Michael Myers
Built on a simple "t" shaped wood stand, we used a Michael Myers mask over a milk jug. Paint the eyes under the mask for effect.
New for 2008: Psycho Lady
Built using a styrofoam head over a wood frame, stuffed with newspaper and foam. Please email me if you would like me to make you one of the heads listed on this webpage. Not expensive.
New for 2008: Styrofoam Head Deceased In Coffin
Coffin made from the dimensions given on this webpage. Deceased made with a styrofoam head, and thrift store clothes. Use white spray paint to lightly dust the prop.
New for 2008: Hurse
We were actually able to get an old hurse that was in a field for years, but any car would do. Place a prop in the vehicle. Light from below the steering wheel for effect.
New for 2008: Supreme Alien
This same prop sells for hundreds of dollars online. Get an old 55 gallon drum, or smiliar. Spray paint the outside Flourescent Orange. Place a prop, made with a styrofoam head, on top. Fog and strobe lights add to the effect.
New for 2008: Corpse Bride
Made from a styrofoam head. Other photos and earlier tries on this webpage.
New for 2008: Corpse Groom
Made from a styrofoam head. Other photos and earlier tries on this webpage.
New for 2008: Corpse Groom
Made from a styrofoam head and wood frame.
New for 2008: Messed Up Old Mask
Don't worry if you have an old mask that got messed up because it melted from the heat in your attic. Simply paste the parts to an old milk jug. Use a blow dryer to melt the parts, making them soft. Use a strong glue and paint around the areas where the milk jug shows. Makes an eerie decoration or prop.
New for 2008: RIP Tomb Stone
Made from a styrofoam block. You can purchase large styrofoam from Lowes. Painted with acrylic paint.
New for 2008: Creepy Scarecrow
Made by putting a burlap cloth over a one gallon milk jug. Easy "t"-shaped wood frame beneath the clothing.
New for 2008: Scary Scarecrow
Another view of the scarecrow.
New for 2008: Skull Tomb Stone
Made from a styrofoam block. You can purchase large styrofoam from Lowes. Painted with acrylic paint using the skull's teeth to form the letters.
New for 2008: Hitchcock's "Birds" Scene
Made from a styrofoam head, painted to look like the scene from the famous Alfred Hitchcock movie, "The Birds".
New for 2008: Another Tomb Stone
Made from a styrofoam block. You can purchase large styrofoam from Lowes. Painted with acrylic paint.
New for 2008: Haunted Wedding Cake
This wedding cake was made from styrofoam and cotton balls. We bought a cake topper and repainted it. Cake topper was purchased from Walmart for $6.00.
New for 2008: Corpse or Dead Bride
This prop was made from a styrofoam head, painted and cut. I used Cheesecloth, a tiara, and childs cameo jewelry, both from Party City, childs section.
New for 2008: Styrofoam Wig Heads
Made from a styrofoam wig heads, male and female. I used a paint on primer before applying any paint. Note that spray paint will melt the heads. Great for Alien faces. See below for details.
New for 2008: Styrofoam Tombstone
We cut the shape of the stone using a turkey knife, spray painted the foam with gray primer, then painted on the design and name.
New for 2008: Saucerman
The face used is that from the 1950's movie, "Invasion of the Saucermen". The face is on a milk jug with the ears cut out.
New for 2008: Alien with Hood
This is a one gallon milk jug painted as described in the "How To" website link.
New for 2008: Easy Styrofoam Head Grim Reaper
New for 2008: Red Head
Made from a styrofoam head. Using an old wig, this can be used as a unique prop.
New for 2008: Fun Sign
A simple sign to add fun to any haunt.
Michael Myers Prop
Using the directions listed below under "Props", Joanna Griffin created her own Michael Myers. Click the link to see her window prop.
Mike Myers Prop Lit From Below
Another photo of Joanna Griffin's Michael Myers. This one is lit with a fluorescent light from below.
Ghost In The Attic:
Simple but great idea. Take one of those lighted yard ornaments. Put it in the window where it can be seen. We used a lighted ghost. It appeared we had a ghost in the attic. Very effective and easy. Can be used in a window as well.
Horseman:
Skeleton riding on an old plastic swing horse. Skeleton was $7.00 at Walgreen's pharmacy.
Horse was from an old swingset. I added the fabrics to give it this look,
and mounted it on a stick in the yard.
Guillotine:
Photo of the full scale guillotine
Guillotine at Night:
Party photo as a photo shoot.
Front porch setting for 2001:
Picture of our 'tame' front proch this year.
Yard Cemetary: Picture of my front yard cemetary for 2001
Spider Garden:
Make a spider garden from plastic spiders, and inexpensive spider web in a part of your yard.
Fun for kids to walk through.
Apple Bobbing Idea:
Put a monster mask in a bucket for added fun while bobbing for apples.
Use a styrofoam head or sealed milk jug to make the mask float in the water.
Fun for kids!
Haunted Boxes:
Take ordinary boxes, spray paint them to look old, and put stuff inside like spaghetti, etc,
(see below) for children to feel.
Plexiglass Guy:
Styrofoam guy in a cardboard box coffin, covered with plexiglass. Details below.
Another Picture of Plexiglass Guy:
The plexiglass was sprayed with Christmas snow to look cold. Details below.
Fortune Teller:
Friend dressed as a gypsy fortune teller. Details below.
Gravesite:
Used 6 boards buried in the ground, my neighbor's stuffed animal, and an old mask.
Corpse Bride prop:
Made with a styrofoam wig head and spider web for hair. Please email me if you would like me to make you one of these heads. Not expensive.
Corpse Groom prop:
Made same as Corpse Bride prop.
Seven foot Jason:
Great Haunted House picture
Use for invitations or decorating
Seven foot "Jason" with different mask.:
Mask purchased at Party City.
Milk Chugs:
Tons of neat things made from disposable milk chugs
Dining Room Scene:
Made with old mask, plastic hands and toy rat.
Frankenstein In Window:
Made with plastic Frankenstein head and hands I got from Kmart after Halloween for $7.00.
Normally the head and hands are $14.00.
Placed both on a frame stuffed with clothes.
Hanging Skeleton:
Made with a good sized rope and $7.00 skeleton.
These skeletons may be purchased from Big Lots, or you can find them online at Oriental Trader.
Their web address is www.oriental.com
Fun Kid's Pottery Decoration:
Just painted a $2.00 pottery bowl with paint and eyes bought from a craft store for 30 cents.
Skeleton In Rocking Chair:
Another $7.00 (Big Lots) plastic skeleton, seated in a rocking chair, covered with spider webs and cheese cloth. Cheese cloth was $1.50 at Walmart.
Halloween Door Wreath:
Got the wreath at Walmart for $2.00. Added plastic flowers for 50 cents, and spray painted it black.
Added red ribbon, skull, and plastic bat rings from Kmart.
These cost about 50 cents.
Plexiglass Man:
What I call my Plexiglass Man. Corpse under an old piece of plexiglass, covered with Christmas snow.
Details below.
Plexiglass man
Created by Trisha Morse, for her home haunt.
Another view of Trisha Morse's Plexiglass Man.
Plexiglass Corpse guy before covering with the plexiglass.
Porch Decorating:
How I decorated my porch Halloween, October 2000.
Simple Graveyard:
Made from wood crosses and cheap garden fencing. Details below.
Living Room Scene:
How the decorations looked collectively in my living room. Halloween 2000.
Medical Patient:
Made with a styrofoam head, plastic hands, plastic foot, and one shoe.
Pillows and old clothes were shaped in a human form under an old white sheet
to give the apprearance of a man.
Michael Myers In The Window:
I cannot emphasize how effective this is. Michael stands in a window, lit from inside.
I used a white strand of Christmas lights all around the inside of the window to illuminate Michael!
It even scared me!
Alien:
I used cordboard to cut out the shape of an alien, used Reynold's wrap aluminum foil for his suit.
Cheap foil is just as good. For the ship I just took an old box
and covered it with aluminum foil and old bike reflectors.
Small Easy Coffin:
Spray paint an old box black. Put a cheap plastic face or skull inside.
Take some bundled up newspaper and cover it with old burlap or any old cloth. Extremely easy.
Mad Lab:
Up close picture of the lab described below.
Exorcist:
I made this prop from the movie, the Exorcist, using a styrofoam head, painted as shown.
I put a cheap wig that I got at a thrift store for a $1.00, on the head.
Get an old night gown, from a thrift store if you don't have one, and proped her in bed.
To stand her up, I used a simple wood frame, described below.
Downed Aviator Prop:
Stuffed old clothes with newspapers, set an old mask on top of an empty milk carton
to prop the head on, and set on hay.
Styrofoam Heads:
Several different styrofoam heads. Please email me if you would like for me to make you one of these heads. Not expensive.
Confederate Styrofoam Head:
Michael Myers Prop:
Made with a simple wood base
Milk Jug Frankenstein:
Great kid or adult project
Mrs. Alien and friends:
A winner with kids, made with an old styrofoam head, and "eyes" from any party store.
Homemade Mummy:
Made with my 7 year old's body. Details below.
Photo of Masking Tape Body Wrap Procedure:
Friend wrapped in masking tape over old clothes
Prop Photo:
Another downed aviator-note the plastic eyes.
Slit Throat Portrait:
Download and use in your house.
Civil War Soldier Portrait:
Use as a haunted portrait
Old Picture to use in your Haunted House:
Download and frame this one.
Wolfman Prop:
Made with a simple wood frame
Photo of some of our Haunted Paintings:
Note the black backing and gold frame.
Portrait for Haunted House:
Portrait of Mr. Andrews, Titanic builder.
Another Haunted House Portrait:
Mr. H. Bride, Titanic wireless operator
Handbook for the Recently Deceased:
Cover of the handbook from "Beetlejuice"
Creature From the Black Lagoon and Wolfman Prop:
Made from simple wood frames, old clothes, masks.
Devil Doll:
Used a $2.00 doll. Blacken in the eyes;add blood.
Michael Myers Window Prop:
Made on simple wood frame. Illuminated with white Xmas lights on the floor.
Monster Milkjug heads:
Milkjugs of Dracula, skull, Devil and Wolfman
Skeleton Pirate Prop:
Made with $7.00 plastic skeleton body, beads, and $4.00 skull from Walmart.
Vampire Prop:
Simple wood frame with black $1.00 cape, $8.00 mask from Walmart, 75 cent eyes from Party City
Dead Confederate Soldier Prop:
Made with $7.00 plastic skeleton (Big Lots) and thrift store clothes.
Tasty Good:
View a fantastic "Zombie Meatloaf", and see the link below for more cool recipes THAT WORK!
Electric Chair:
Made from old chair, wires, car horn under the seat.
Bride of Frankenstein on Motorbike Prop:
Simple "H" shaped wood frame with wire hands covered with masking tape painted white.
Mrs. Bates...Shower scene:
Made with styrofoam head, simple wood frame, Kyro syrup blood, thrift store clothes.
White Grim Reaper:
$1.00 skull, cheesecloth and burlap over a simple wood "t" shaped frame.
Exorcist Scene:
Regan made from styrofoam head and cheap wig.
Table Victim:
Styrofoam head, cheap rubber hand and feet, old shoe, wood logs covered with white sheet.
Alien Wreck Scene:
Made with old clothes, newspaper and styrofoam head.
Easy "Terminator" Face Painting:
Paint the face with silver surrounded by red and wear leather and gloves.
Mr. Cool Sketeton:
$8.00 plastic skeleton, dressed "cool".
Dr. Jami and her mad lab!:
Plastic rats, head in jar, spiders, christmas lights and various old chemistry set parts.
"Doctor's Lab"
Extremely effective. See details listed below.
My "Haunted" Graveyard:
Crosses cut from old boards, spraypainted white and grey. Wood gravestones.
My "Handbook of the Recently Deceased"
:
Hand painted from a photo from the movie over an old cloth book.
Close up of the "Handbook":
More details shown.
"Handbook" Stencil:
Make your own
"Handbook of the Recently Deceased" using this stencil
Hand painted from a photo from the movie over an old cloth book.
"Mad" Doctor :
Old hospital gowns, white apron, corpse made with masking tape body with plastic arm, foot, and styrofoam head.
Simple Ghost Grim Reaper:
Wooden "t" shaped frame, cheap plastic skull, old white sheet. Glue sheet to skull with liquid plastic.
Bugs and rats!:
Plastic rats, and cheap plastic bugs, laid on the floor, in non-traffic areas, work great!
Colonel Bedford:
Great haunted picture to download and place on your wall. Framed is great too!
Captain Nelson:
Makes another great "haunted portrait" for your walls.
Fingerless!:
Civil war picture of a child. Makes eerie "haunted portrait" and I usually put a ghost story to it.
General Ratcliff:
Another portrait to download and use.
Skeleton Torture:
Cheap $8.00 skeleton with hay, blood, and old iron parts.
Halloween Card #1:
Cover art with "Elvis". Great wallpaper.
Halloween Card #2:
Cover art with Halloween Cat; very colorful. Great wallpaper.
Halloween Card #3:
Cover art with skeleton. Good wallpaper.
Halloween Card #4:
Grim Reaper cover art. Great wallpaper.
Halloween Card #5:
Screaming woman cover art. Good wallpaper.
Halloween Card #6:
Good skeleton cover art. Good wallpaper.
Halloween Card #7:
Various monsters photos; Funny;
Old Man picture:
Use this picture for a haunted portrait.
Old Man picture (decaying):
Old man portrait, only getting meaner. Print out and use as haunted portrait.
HALLOWEEN 2003
Mrs. King:
I played the role of a "victim" this year. Photo of the site editor and author
"What would you like to Eat?:
Photo of my son, Kyle, and myself, dressed up.
Dr. Frankensteen:
Photo of my husband in his famous role as "The Doc"
Victim Gets It!:
Photo from Halloween 2003, in a staged performance. My husband, David, as the "Count"
Our costumes for Halloween 2003:
We do Halloween right!
Walmart Bag Victim:
We took plastic Walmart bags, made then into long, narrow arms, legs, and big bags (of bags) for the body.
We kept it together with masking tape, and covered her with a sheet.
She is laying on an outstretched lawn chair, with boards under for support.
Halloween Party:
Photo of the King family in costume
Dr. Frankensteen and Assistant:
Our party costumes
Fortune Teller:
Wonderful Fortune Telling globe light made by John Willitts, Sr.
Spider Garden:
The children made this scary "Spider Garden" with web bought at BigLots for 99 cents
Kevin's Fortune Telling Stand:
This idea, as a Fortune Teller, is a solid hit with children ages 12 and younger
Halloween 2001 :
Pumpkins for a festive mood.
The Doc with a Victim:
Husband David and Kyle after Halloween
Frankenstein Collection:
My son, Kyle, and his vast Frankenstein collection
Frankenstein's Biggest Fan:
More of the collection
SUBMITTED IDEAS!!
These photos were submitted by John Willitts, Sr.
Using the instructions in this website, Ray and Christine Ramsey of North Hampton, England, submitted these photos.
To find the directions and photos of how to make the ideas listed above
and more
please go to this follow-up website:
Other King Halloween Related Websites:
This site is dedicated entirely to my two wonderful children
Kyle and KevinHerring.
They make all of this totally fun and worthwhile.
RECOMMENDED LINKS!
Here are some valuable party and decoration links that have great ideas.
A special thanks to Jeff Quaglietta who has helped me design this site from its conception in 1998.
Visit his site at Spooky House Productions
Monster Mayhem
Classic Universal Monsters, Munsters, Fun stuff here!
SpookyWorld
America's Horror Theme Park
Jack-O-Lantern carving patterns, history, and techniques
Thanks for visiting!!! Happy Haunting!!!
You can contact me, Kimberly, at
flygal46@yahoo.com
or just click on the Spook Mail Link below!
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