How to Make a Haunted Barn
- 1). Decorate the exterior of the barn first. Use sheets of cotton or webbing found at craft stores to create spider webs attached to the exterior walls of the barn. Pull the webs in various directions to create an asymmetrical pattern and hang it down from the main entrance doors. If extra doors or entryways exist, use yellow police tape to block off the doors and use chalk to form the outline of a body in front of one of the doors. Drizzle a little red coloring around the outline. Build tombstones out of cardboard for the ground around the front of the barn to make at least one section look like a graveyard.
- 2). Hang extra cobwebs throughout the main interior of the barn. Use the barn's rafters to hang items such as skeletons, a noose with an unlucky stuffed scarecrow person dangling from the contraption and flickering amber lights that are battery powered. Use black, silver and red items throughout the barn.
- 3). Enlist the help of others to act out scary scenes throughout the barn. Have a man and woman dressed in wedding attire yet covered in fake blood and have others dress as ghouls, ghosts and zombies. Have the people meander throughout the barn when others are inside and make sure none of your actors speak. Watching guests try to communicate with ghoulish characters who do not respond will add a creepy element to your haunted barn.
- 4). Use a sound system equipped with wireless speakers. Make sure to have haunted house music and sounds on a continuous loop. Use noises such as creaking doors, shrill screams and flapping bat wings. Include speakers mounted to the outside of the barn so that everyone who approaches gets in the Halloween spirit right off the bat.
- 5). Hang fake bats, ravens and crows from the barn's rafters. Mount a few large black birds to the top of the main entrance door frame and position them so they appear to be looking down at guests as they enter. Use other fake animals such as rabid-looking wolves and rats positioned in corners and beside food and drink stations.
- 6). Use fog machines positioned beside the front entrance and in corners of the barn to produce a mist effect. Have one person in charge of adding scent to the barn while guests are inside and use smells such as must or mold. If you cannot find scents to spray or want to make you own smell machine, take the lid off of a few candles in strong, earthy scents and place the candles in front of a fan that will blow the smell around.
- 7). Hang body distortion mirrors all along the walls or the barn. Create a fun house effect by hanging the mirrors in different directions and covering entire wall areas at eye level and above. This will disorient people when they enter this section.
- 8). Go back through the barn after you have completed all the decorating and add extra elements to create a haunted environment. Use skeletons on racks hanging from corners, fake guillotines on table tops with skulls positioned beside and have pick axes, machetes and meat cleavers strewn about as extra decorations.
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