Cheap Corpse Hands: Very creepy, but very easy. Supplies include latex, wires, masking tape and other bits. Tutorial from WetCanvas forums.

Creepy Halloween Tree: Make a creepy looking tree with faces and veins. Requires chicken wire, paper mache, polyurethane expanding foam. Depending on the detailing you choose to do, things like rope and binder twine can be implemented. Paint to finish it off. Great looking tree! Details found at aranamuerta.com.

Decoration Ideas & Projects For Home Haunting: Tips and information for planning yard scenes, graveyards, creating figures and tips for a flying crank ghost. Details found at HalloweenCreations.com.

DIY Ghosts: Some of you may remember these from grade school — and you know what? They are just as much fun to make today as they were back then. Uses cheesecloth and laundry starch. Details found at ReadyMadeMag.com.

Dried Apple Shrunken Heads for Halloween: These little faces, made from dried apples, can look really nasty and sinister — the perfect thing to decorate a Halloween party. Tuck them in among the food at your Halloween Buffet. You can also make lots of dried apple heads and string them up like a spooky garland. Instructions from FabulousFoods.com.

Easy Eyeballs: Mask makers often use roll on deodorant balls as eyes in their sculptures. So why not use them for prop building? This project is very cheap and so easy–and well done. Instructions are from HauntersHangout.com.

Fog Machine Chiller: This fog chiller uses an ice cooler and is designed to be easy to build, relatively inexpensive and be a completely self-contained unit that can be moved around as needed. Extensive information is available on this site for fog chillers. Instructions found at GotFog.com.

Ghostly Glove Placecard Holders: Cute idea for placecard holders using adult sized opera gloves stuffed with cotton balls. Project details found at HGTV.com.

Ghoulish Ghosts: Create a flowing ghostly shape to scare passersby using leftover wood scraps, gauze and fabric starch. Project details found at HGTV.com.

Glow Water: Here’s a video that shows you how to make glow water with just some water and a hilighter marker (you’ll need a blacklight for this).

Halloween Sound Effects: Here you’ll find a bonanza of Halloween music and sound effects to download (free!). Bubbling cauldrons, tolling bells, rattling chains, screeching cats and so much more. For theme songs and music, files are here (Adams Family Theme song, Halloween Theme and more). Oodles of downloads available. Found at ilovewavs.com.

Halloween Sound Effects - Disney’s Haunted Mansion: Here are some of the original music and effect tracks recorded for the Haunted Mansion. They are presented in MP3 format and require some sort of MP3 player (like WinAmp or Windows Media Player) to play. You’ll also find Mansion/Manor-related MIDI files here. Free to download, found at GrimGhosts.com.

Holiday Light Ball: Make a holiday lightball using clear plastic cups and indoor/outdoor mini-lights (use halloween colors). Tutorial from Born2Haunt.com.

Homemade Atomized Glycol Fog Recipes: Visit site for more complete information and safety details. These recipes are found at About.com.

• 15%-35% food grade glycerine to 1 quart distilled water
• 125 ml glycerine to 1 liter distilled water
  (glycerine creates a ‘haze’ at concentrations of 15% or less and more of a fog or smoke at concentrations higher than 15%)
• Unscented mineral oil (baby oil), with or without water
  (I can’t vouche for the safety of using mineral oil for fog juice)
• 10% distilled water: 90% propylene glycol (dense fog)
  40% distilled water: 60% propylene glycol (quick dissipating)
  60% water: 40% propylene glycol (very quick dissipation)
• 30% distilled water: 35% dipropylene glycol: 35% triethylene glycol (long-lasting fog)
• 30% distilled water: 70% dipropylene glycol (dense fog)

Hot Glue Gun Web Shooter: An easy way to make spider webs to “dress-up” your latest Halloween project. Requires a hot glue gun, inexpensive plumbing parts and compressed air. It shoots fine strands of hot glue that look like spider webs. Spray them on your tombstones, skeleton or whatever you want. This can be made for under $25. Details found at Scary-Terry.com.

How To Halloween Spooktacular - Video: A few ideas shown how to glam up some pumpkins, make a pumpkin drink cooler as well as basic instructions for how to carve a pumpkin. Video shown on Tipnut.

How To Make A Flying Crank Ghost: For advanced DIYers, this is an amazing project that will make your house *THE* haunted place on the block. The figure is an articulated marionette, which hangs from a motor platform that attaches to your attraction’s ceiling. You’ll also find a cute cartoon version of the FCC here: A Cute FCG Marionette for Kids. Instructions found at PhantasMechanics.com. Another set of instructions for a flying crank ghost can be found here at SpookyBlue.com.

How To Make A Mummy Prop (pdf): Uses a sheet of styrofoam, cheap olive colored fabric, and a bucky skull for a cost of $30 approx. PDF is authored by Troy Pillon.

How To Make A Paper Mache Skull: You will need to buy a $25 resin skull for this project, but the good news is that it can be used over and over again to crank out paper mache skulls. These turn out really well and this is a good tool in your Halloween arsenal to save $$$ if you need a few skulls. Details found at SpookyBlue.com.

How To Make A Pumpkin Basket: Carve out a lopsided pumpkin basket to use as a decorative centerpiece. Insert floral foam to arrange flowers. Edging Template (pdf). Details found at MarthaStewart.com.

How To Make A Toe Pincher Coffin: All you need is some blue foam board, duct tape and paint to make a great toepincher coffin. The entire project takes about 4 hours, less if your paint dries faster. Details found at SpookyBlue.com.

How To Make Frozen Ice Hands: Here are the instructions for how to make the always favorite floating ice hand (for punch bowls). Make a couple just in case one doesn’t turn out as well as have an extra on hand when the first one melts. This is a recipe featured on Tipnut.

How To Make Spooky Signs: This project demonstrates a painting technique that creates the look of aged, rotten wood. Every haunted yard needs at least one spooky sign to lead the way! Details found at Madhauscreative.com.

How To Make Tombstones for Halloween: Video showing how to make tombstones for Halloween Decorations.

Lighted Candy Bowls: Quick and easy design for your Halloween decorations–candy bowls that glow with lit candles. This item is featured on Tipnut.