How to Make a Haunted House

We love Halloween and we love our homemade haunted house! Every year, our whole family, plus some friends and neighbors, work together to transform our front yard into a haunted graveyard and our house into a spooky mansion. Our costumed visitors usually gaze in wonder. They approach our house wondering if they should run away or join the fun.

It is not necessary for you to have an unlimited budget or special abilities to make your own haunted house. You just need some creativity, good planning, and patience. A strong desire to scare people is also helpful! Read on for some helpful hints, directions for props, and other suggestions to help you get started. You will find many more pictures too!

• Create an Eerie Atmosphere
  Discover how to set just the right atmosphere in your haunted house using lighting, sounds, and a couple other effects.

• Get Ghoulish Help
  Find out how and why to enlist the help of your friends, family, and neighbors to help you with your haunting plans.

• Create Petrifying Props
  Check out these creative ideas. Get free directions for many of the haunted house props we have made over the years.

• Helpful Haunting Hints
  Here are a few hints to help you make your haunted house the best it can be. These factors cannot be stressed enough!

• Halloween Photo Album
  This is the master list of all the large pictures of our haunted house and yard that I have posted on this site!

I hope you enjoy all of these haunted house tips and hints. If you make any of these crafts, make sure you send in a photo to be included in this collection. You can also get your Halloween crafts published. If you want to be one of the first to know when new craft projects are posted, take a few moments to sign up for the Family Crafts Newsletter and you can also chat about Halloween with others in the Family Crafts Forum.