Ender started doing the haunted house with the grade sixes in his first year. Since then we've been putting this thing on annually and getting better and better every time. Because it's our last year at Kistiganwacheeng Elementary we wanted to give it our all. While the process has left me completely exhausted I also feel really proud of what we did this year. Let's take a tour...
We wanted to change the overall layout from last year. In the past years guests went through the haunted house and were chased out the way they came after they got their candy. This made the whole thing go very slowly. So we hung the tarps differently to create a one way route which streamlined the whole performance.
Lead by Mr.A dressed as a demon, guests were lead through a "spooky forest." We took down the ceiling tiles to make it seem less like a classroom, and then hung branches, cobwebs and purple lights. As you walk through the "forest," students on the other side of the tarp wall reached out to startle guests.
We set up the mask wall (Or as Ender called it the 'Wall of Things I've Killed') at the end of the forest. While wearing a mask, students put their heads through the holes and held perfectly still until people got close enough to scare.
We created a claustrophobic tunnel called the Terrifying Tunnel of Darkness ('And we call it that because nothing bad ever happens in there') using garbage bags to make a low ceiling. Again, the students reached out for feet from underneath the tarps.
At the end of the tunnel is the dragon with glowing eyes and a smoke machine inside. Ms. Jordan, dressed up in scars and a cloak, offered the kids a story about her dead husband (played by a student in a coffin on the floor) and candy for the road. When the kids reach for their candy a hand pops out from the bowl. Once the kids get their candy, they are told to hurry out before the spirit of Jordan's husband gets them.
On the way out there is one final scare from a student dressed as a scarecrow. We stuffed their outfit with newsprint so that if anyone poked them they would think it was just a dummy.
We had so much fun putting on the haunted house this year. We were able to raise enough money to cover the new instruments we bought for the school in October. I really hope that we can continue to do big projects like this at the next school we work at.
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