Halloween is such a fun holiday, especially for kids. My family loves a good haunted house. But have you ever noticed how most haunted houses are all about blood and gore, and are much too frightening for children? Who wants their kids viewing torture chambers and beheaded zombies? In my opinion, those things really don’t have much to do with Halloween.

I really wanted to have a haunted house that was all about Halloween - witches, ghosts, pumpkins, bats, etc. So about 7 years ago we started building a kid-friendly haunted house in our garage, which is a HUGE hit every year. Our house is the most popular in the neighborhood on Halloween, and every year we get more and more visitors. Our haunted house includes fun Halloween scenes which kids of all ages can enjoy. (The parents seem to enjoy it too!)

We change the haunted house around every year, and each year we add a little more. Here are some scenes from last year’s haunted house.

Entrance/first hallway: Haunted Forest - Fog machine, scary trees with blinking eyes, strobe light, flying ghost, and a talking witch with cauldron.

Second hallway: Black light, green spider web with skeleton and spider, pirate scene with hanging sword that moves via a pulley.

Third hallway: Lit up coffin with smiling mummy, and a graveyard scene with a ghost that rises up and down.

Last hallway: Pumpkin patch including pumpkin with blinking eyes, full moon, scarecrow.

Exit: Hauntville scene – display of haunted houses, ghost on black light that goes up and down.