So what are you planning?
Since leaving NY, we really haven't done much for Halloween, which we miss. Up there, we owned a huge old Victorian house with a huge 20 X 20 Foyer with the stairs that went up stairs and a hidden door in the back of the room that was a pass through hallway in to kitchen. We would close off the room from the rest of the house and created a maze using black plastic. In the maze we used smoke machines, a casket from the funeral director down the road, very loud music, a few skeletons from the community college where my Father inlaw worked and black lights at every corner. It was a great time, and every year we would try to change it to keep the neighborhood kids surprised. We stopped the last few years that we were there because kids, as they grew older also grew stupid and decided that they would pull the plastic down as they walked through the maze.
So the last couple of years we would set a table up out on the lawn. There we served hot apple cider, coffee, soda, kool aid and once we did beer for the Dads, along with fresh made doughnuts right out of the fryer. The parents could put whatever topping they wanted on them, chocolate, powdered sugar/sugar miz, or a sour cream glaze. We would have more parents at our house than we would kids, which was GREAT!!!!
We are thinking of doing that again this year. We did it once since we lived here, and the parents loved it. It makes for a nice stopping place for parents and Kids to refresh, grab a bite and get a drink of something warm, or cold............ Parents never realize that the kids will have to go pee, till they are almost a block away............
Since leaving NY, we really haven't done much for Halloween, which we miss. Up there, we owned a huge old Victorian house with a huge 20 X 20 Foyer with the stairs that went up stairs and a hidden door in the back of the room that was a pass through hallway in to kitchen. We would close off the room from the rest of the house and created a maze using black plastic. In the maze we used smoke machines, a casket from the funeral director down the road, very loud music, a few skeletons from the community college where my Father inlaw worked and black lights at every corner. It was a great time, and every year we would try to change it to keep the neighborhood kids surprised. We stopped the last few years that we were there because kids, as they grew older also grew stupid and decided that they would pull the plastic down as they walked through the maze.
So the last couple of years we would set a table up out on the lawn. There we served hot apple cider, coffee, soda, kool aid and once we did beer for the Dads, along with fresh made doughnuts right out of the fryer. The parents could put whatever topping they wanted on them, chocolate, powdered sugar/sugar miz, or a sour cream glaze. We would have more parents at our house than we would kids, which was GREAT!!!!
We are thinking of doing that again this year. We did it once since we lived here, and the parents loved it. It makes for a nice stopping place for parents and Kids to refresh, grab a bite and get a drink of something warm, or cold............ Parents never realize that the kids will have to go pee, till they are almost a block away............
