New Home for my Halloween Projects

Hi, this is the new home for my Halloween projects. Every year we dress up our yard for Halloween, and to keep things interesting we choose a different theme each year. The last two years we had an Alien Invasion, and Mummies. Along with our usual front yard display we also set up a "Halloween Village" in our front window. This is like a traditional Christmas Village, but with a Halloween Theme. And of course the theme matches the yard theme.

Last year we added a new element to our Halloween by putting a pumpkin patch in the back yard and we grew our own pumpkins, just seemed appropriate. This year we are doing the same, although on a smaller scale as the pumpkin patch has become a vegetable garden as well.

I am starting off this blog with a look at our previous Halloweens, I will follow that with a detailed look at the preparations and constructions of this year's Halloween. This year's theme is a Ghostbusters Haunted Street, combining Ghostbusters stuff with Ghosts of course and more traditional trick or treaters. The Halloween Village contains 8 Haunted Houses, most of which were built using free paper models available online (more info later), a great Ecto-mobile, the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man (paper model of course), the Statue of Liberty, and lots of other surprises (some paper models, some purchased stuff, some reused from previous year's displays. More info on all of this in later posts.

Part of Egypt Halloween Village with lighting

Egypt Halloween Village using Flash

Here are two pictures from last years Halloween Village, Egypt Mummies. Best viewed with the spooky lighting. The large pyramid is a purchased prop, there are several purchased mummies plus a couple paper models. The Sphinx is a paper model from Canon Creative Park. There is a Star Gate paper model, several Paper Model Pyramids and Obelisks, some Paper Model palm trees and assorted other stuff. It all really comes alive with the lighting. We use miniature village lights and some great color changing LED lighting that was designed to go inside pumpkins.

This years Ghostbusters theme will be far more advanced.
More later..