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…
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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…
The Making of a Logo
One of the most iconic images associated with the Ghostbusters is their logo. It appears in every movie, on Ghostbuster uniforms and even covers the…
Making a Model
After creating the design in Photoshop, I often build a quick prototype of the structures out of paper to help me visualize how things will…
Colossal Cardboard Contributions
We rely on donated materials to create the Halloween House. Often that involves us asking businesses who are throwing away large boxes if we can take…
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…
Setting Up Hogwarts
After weeks of work, many people painting, cutting, building and helping, the time came to set everything up. On Friday, we set up the backdrop…
The Walls of Hagrid’s Hut
We wanted give the walls of Hagrid’s hut the “made out of stone” look and rather than just paint lines on flat cardboard, we went…
The Great Front Door
What does the great front door of Hogwarts have to do with Panda Express? Well, not much in the books or movies. But, the two…
Floating Candles
The Great Hall at Hogwarts features many cool things. One of the special features is its floating candles. We decided to include those as part…
Sorting Out the Sorting Hat
The legendary Sorting Hat is a highly significant Hogwarts object. We wanted to have it be part of the Halloween house. So, we purchased a…
Making an Entrance (Part 2)—Winged Boars
The entrance gates to Hogwarts are topped by winged boars. We wanted to also have the entrance gates to our Hogwarts to have those, but…
Making an Entrance (Part 1)
The entrance gates to the grounds of Hogwarts are ‘flanked by winged boars’ and serve as a barrier (sometimes magically reinforced by the professors and the…