Create a Haunted House for Your Office
1. A haunted house is a place that’s dim. Dim the lights by pasting dark colored cellophane on every window. The darker the shade the better. Try and close all the windows after you’ve covered them with dark cellophane to see how much darker your place is– take some white thread (for contrast) and try and form cobwebs in the windows. Tip here is to apply some paste at the string or thread to make it look thicker and “stickier”.
2.Ceilings should also be covered with black cellophane or crepe paper. Since the ceiling is supposed to something like the “dark” sky, stick a little of those white luminous plastic stars that your kids stick in their bedrooms. Take some aluminum foil and cut them in irregular lightning (zigzagged) shapes enough to be more prominent than the luminous stars. When you view the ceiling, it should be ominously dark with stars but accent the lightning more by making it huge and placing it on a more prominent place than the stars. Place strings and hang a couple of paper -bats in the ceiling. Make sure that a few of these bats dangle enough to reach anyone who happens to be walking around. Take note however that you do not cover the lights with anything because that could overheat the bulb or lights. Instead, remove the bulbs and get s smaller darker red colored ones (or black ones) to make the whole ceiling lighting more eerie. The smaller red color however against the black “sky” and the “lightning” and “bats” seems more exciting.
3. Redesign your working cubicles. Use paper mache’ and pick some cubicles to transform into caves. Making a “cave” using paper mache’ must be done about two days (for the paper to dry) before you place it to cover your cubicle. Paint your “cave” using moss greens, browns and black. Cover your table with purple or any dark looking cloth and fit in the “cave”. Your cave should be huge enough to cover the whole cubicle.
4. So that the design will not be monotonous, try making only a few caves. Cover the other cubicle tables and place “caskets” made of long boxes. Paint them in white so that people can see that they are caskets. Paint brown figures of skeletons over them, put the RIP sign and arrange some “used” candles over the caskets. These candles are just meant for “effects” and they should never be lit.
5.Gather some old dry twigs and branches. Leave the smaller twigs in the floor randomly so that anyone who walks over them will hear a crackle and will get scared. Position the bigger branches in other parts of the “place” and make them appear like small trees. You can hang Ravens, Blackbirds, more bats on the, You can also add more sticky spiderwebs in these “trees” and add one prominent huge spider or two. You can buy these Halloween “things” in any Prank and Joke Store or you can make them yourself.
6. Aside from the little twigs, cover the whole floor with dry leaves. Or even dark green pieces of paper would do so that when someone opens the fan the “leaves” suddenly fly and add to the “horror” of the place. Imagine walking and something suddenly flies? Wouldn’t it be scary to also be walking and hear different a strange sound as you step on a twig or two while the hanging bats seem to fall on you?
It only takes a lot of imagination, creativity and an “element” of surprise to turn your office into a haunted house. Put on some strange old symphony music and complete your office Halloween by serving your terrified guests worms (gummies) as appetizer.
