- 1). Section off a room for the haunted house. Since the haunted area will be at a carnival, it is best to keep it on a smaller scale, although you can spread it out across several rooms if they are connected.
- 2). Tape black paper over all doors and windows to block out as much light from the room as possible.
- 3). Create a path for the guests to walk through. You can divide the room with chairs, bookcases, tables or other solid objects. Hang black plastic from the ceiling down to the floor to create dark hallways.
- 4). Set up a strobe light to disorient the children and make the experience scarier. Play a spooky soundtrack to add to the mood.
- 5). Create different events for the children to encounter on their walk through the room. Fill latex gloves with water and coat them in petroleum jelly. Hang them from the ceiling so that they brush the children in the face as they walk through the house. Place spiders, skeletons and other spooky creatures around the room.
- 6). Set up spooky stations, such as an evil laboratory where a teacher or older student cuts up body parts, or other spooky activities. Have a station where children can place their hands inside containers to feel "eyeballs" made from grapes, "guts" made from cooked noodles, "human bones" made from beef or chicken bones and other scary textures. You can also set up alien experiments, scary chemistry, or even spooky carnival games. Set up a booth where a person dressed as an alien pretends to experiment on a human subject. In the chemistry section, have someone dress as a mad scientist mix brightly-colored ingredients to make glowing concoctions. Use dry ice to add to the effect. The scary carnival could include someone dressed as a scary clown, fishing for ducks in a pool of "blood" and a spooky fortune teller. Keep the terror limit low if the events are for younger children.
- 7). Have people in scary costumes pop out at the children every now and then for additional scares.
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