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Read these tips and find projects to help you make your own haunted house or yard for Halloween. Find free directions for easy props and haunting tricks the whole family can help with! There are even a few miniature Haunted House Crafts you can make.
Building Tombstones
It is easy to make your own cemetary with these home made tombstones.
Creepy Coffin
From your About.com guide, build your own pretend coffin using these ideas.
Garbage Bag Spider
Instructions for making a LARGE, spooky spider using a garbage bag and a few other supplies.
Ghastly Ghosts
These home made ghosts, ranging from tiny to large, are great additions to your haunted house.
Halloween Haunted House
Special Article from your About.com guide! Turn your front yard into a haunted graveyard and your house into a spooky mansion.
Halloween Photo Album
Check out this collection of great Halloween haunted house photos!
Hanging Victim
A perfect prop for your haunted house. Boris explains how to make a stuffed dummy that looks like a hanging victim!
Haunted House Craft
From your About.com guide, made with a milk carton and your own imagination!
Make Stuffed Dummies
From your About.com guide, make these full-sized dummies. A perfect haunted house prop or scarecrow.
Paper Mache Spider
Instructions for making a big spider using paper mache' techniques. Make many of them in all sizes!
Spooky Hands
From your About.com guide, spooky hands are easy to make, and they are a great addition to your haunted house decorations.
Boo-ti-ful Bushes
Decorate your bushes using sheets and these ideas!
Frankenstein's Front-Lawn Monster
Everyone will go absolutely mad over this huge Frankenstein's monster ingeniously crafted from a picnic table. Just stand him up in your yard or driveway and hope for lightning to bring him to life!
Ghostly Graveyard
Make this miniature cemetary complete with ghosts and headstones.
Giant Hand
This cool Halloween prop was made using PVC pipe and spray insulation foam.
Shrunken Heads
These little faces, made from dried apples, can look really nasty and sinister!
Vampire Bat
Suspended in a tree or from a porch ceiling, this bat's wings rustle with all the convincing creepiness of the real thing.
Witch and Cauldron
This menacing matriarch, with her bubbling cauldron, is guaranteed to make your Halloween visitors take a second look.
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