Halloween 2022

Halloween night 2022!

Lots of cute moments from the night.  Sam had a little boy come up and embrace her in the shark costume with a pure love that was adorable.  I had a girl tell me she remembered the Harry Potter theme from when she was a young kid but had been too nervous to come up to the house and regretted it ever since.  Several veteran teenagers who come back every year and remember each theme fondly.  Just some very kind compliments on the house--very sweet. 

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Halloween 2022 theme: Underwater theme

 So this year's theme is going to be....Pirates!  and mermaids!  And deep sea monsters!  This is partly due to reusing some props that I made for the summer reading program at the library--"Oceans of Possibilities" themed.  I made 2 large anglerfish mouths, a few eels, and lots of seaweed kelp.  I also was able to get my hands on several of the coral reefs made out of pool noodles made by some crafty coworkers.  Here's a link to the builds for those.  

As for the front yard, I initially decided to try to make a raft with a few pirates being lured into the depths by a skelly mermaid.  That evolved a bit into a half a pirate ship being attacked by a kraken.  I made 3 tentacles out of pipe insulation duct taped together around a pvc pipe that went over a rebar.  I cut up some pipe insulation rings to stick on for suckers, and then spray painted one side white.  I put wire in the tops so that they could be a bit manipulated.  

The head was basically a cardboard box that I added strips of cardboard to to make it a bit more oval/head like, then wrapped it again with the red duct tape that I used on the tentacles.  I got some giant eyes from the dollar tree and taped those on to two of the sides.  

A trip to savers got me the clothes for pirates, and I dressed them up to be rather swashbuckling.  One of them I set up to be attacking the kraken, and the other I eventually set up to be fishing and catching a skeleton anglerfish--one of the new halloween toys I picked up for this year.  He lights up, but not on a timer, so he'll go on for Halloween, but I want to save the battery.