The Box that Rocks
Cardboard is the basis for our Halloween house decorations, so each year it is important to source great, large, clean cardboard. Generous friends over the…
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“But Father, I Just Want to…Paint!”
We had our first of two painting days for this year’s Halloween House. The crew that helped out tore through the projects at a speed…
Beautiful Cardboard
Because of the ‘backyard circus in the front yard’ nature of our Halloween house, I have been in the cardboard acquiring business for many years….
Kevin the Bird
One great part of the movie Up is Kevin the Bird! She is a wonderful, colorful mom who we definitely wanted to include in the…
How to Build Wall-E
I love the movie Wall-E and challenged myself this year to build a slightly larger than life-sized Wall-E to be part of the Halloween house…
Logo Looming Large
The Pixar logo is an iconic part of every Pixar movie. A lamp jumps in, tries to squish a ball, and then becomes the I…
Making Inside Out Outside
One of the Pixar worlds that visitors will get to see this year is that of Inside Out – the beautiful coming-of-age movie set for…
Lego Minifigure Costume Build, Part 1
The vision for this year’s Halloween house is that visitors can feel like they are the size of toys, encountering large Lego spaceships, towers and…
A Spooky Graveyard Fence
To re-create the fences shown in the Nightmare Before Christmas, I started with some aluminum tube pieces from an old broken canopy. The amazing crew…
The Final Community Painting Day of 2018
On Saturday, October 20th, we had our last community painting day of 2018. A dedicated crew tackled a variety of projects, from prepping the Donkey…
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…
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 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…
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…