Theme for 2024: Dr. Seuss!
So far this year we’ve been tight-lipped, we’ve been as quiet as a mouse.But now we’re ready to shout it loud, this year we’ll have…
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Come On By!
Our Pixar-themed Halloween house is all set up and ready for you! We will be open 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Saturday (29th), Sunday (30th)…
Painting Pixels
For our second painting day, we focused on painting some classic video game elements. First, to achieve the latticed look of the girders for Donkey…
Additional Designs
In addition to the overall sketch that we have shown, there are a few other areas of the scene that we are excited about. First,…
Cardboard Management
We love to use cardboard to create different shapes and backgrounds for the Halloween house. So, finding large, free cardboard is always part of the…
The Theme for the 2018 Albertson Halloween House
The theme for the 2018 Albertson Halloween house is Video Games! Visitors will walk past a full-sized Pokestop, through a Minecraft arch and up a…
Halloween Night 2017: Ghostbusters
What a night! The Albertson Halloween House welcomed some 800-1000 trick or treaters and their families to a very Ghostbuster-y evening! Visitors got to walk…
Making Floating Books
One of the first scenes in the Ghostbusters movie depicts a library haunted by a spirit, complete with flying card catalog cards and floating books. …
Somethin’ Great in the Neighborhood
Every year we have Community Painting Days, where friends, family, neighbors and co-workers come to paint props and scenery for the Halloween house. This year…
Testing Stay Puft
Last year, when I mentioned that our local hardware store had a 13 foot high Stay Puft Marshmallow Man for sale, Michelle decided that it needed…
Building Hagrid’s Hut
We wanted to make sure that the house of the Keeper of Keys and Grounds of Hogwarts (and sometimes teacher of Care of Magical Creatures),…
Wizarding Signs
Signage is apparently still an important part of the wizarding world. There are some iconic signs from Harry Potter that we wanted to create for…
How to Make Hogwarts’ Front Door
This year, I wanted to make the entrance to Hogwarts Castle feel extra special. Normally, I would have created a flat, painted cardboard version, but this year…
Video: Production Update 10-9-16
Here is a production update video for the first week of October. In it, I show the model of the Halloween house, the structures for…