How to Make a Haunted House

By HowExpert

If you want to learn how to make a haunted house, then get the "How to Make a Haunted House" guide now.
Inside you will discover tips and secrets on how to start a haunted house business.
- How to integrate your haunted house into the community.
- How to find a location for your haunted house.
- Tips on permanent, temporary, or mobile haunted houses.
- How to build walls for your haunted house.
- How to do set design for a haunted house.
- Haunted house characters
- Human resources and your haunted house
- Ticketing and money tips
- And much more.
Let "How to Make a Haunted House" help you make your haunted house and make a fun place for your community.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HowExpert
• Release date: Nov 6, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465813282

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How To Make a Haunted House

Your Step-By-Step Guide To Making a Haunted House

By HowExpert Press

Copyright 2016 http://www.HowExpert.com

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Integrating Your Haunted House into the Community

Chapter 2: Finding a Location for Your Haunted House

Chapter 3: Permanent, Temporary, or Mobile Haunted Houses

Chapter 4: Building Walls for Your Haunted House

Chapter 5: How to Do Set Design for a Haunted House

Chapter 6: Haunt Characters

Chapter 7: Human Resources and Your Haunted House

Chapter 8: Ticketing and Money

Chapter 9: Marketing Your Haunted House

Chapter 10: Concluding Remarks

Conclusion

Recommended Resources

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Chapter 1: Integrating Your Haunted House Into The Community

You'll have a lot of fun building a Haunted House attraction if you enjoy using your imagination and entertaining people. Haunted houses provide patrons with hours of enjoyment every year, keeping kids out of trouble, and giving families something to do before the cooler winter weather hits. Haunted houses actually help patrons release negative emotions and experience adventure in a relatively safe environment.

You'll be operating your haunted house with a team of volunteers or paid employees. These volunteers and/or paid employees should thoroughly enjoy the fellowship of working with each other to scare hapless victims during the Halloween season. Your haunt staff should experience a good feeling of being part of a cohesive group. That feeling should help you retain your staff members from one year to the next.

Though many people who see or hear your marketing will only think about the theme of your haunted house, a haunted house is actually a lot more than just a place where people go to get scared. The people who work for your business and patronize your business have the opportunity to go do something unique with friends and family, which has a positive impact on the community where your haunted house is located.

It's important to understand that your haunted house provides a sense of community to the people who work there. That sense of community will be key in volunteer recruitment and retention.

Also keep in mind that your haunted house plays a role in the community where it is located and that working against the community that it serves will only create havoc for a haunted house that is trying to establish itself.

You can start thinking about building community even before you know where you haunted house is going to be located. If you're doing your haunted house as a fundraiser, then you've obviously realized how a haunt can benefit an organization or community. But if you're planning to build a for-profit haunt, consider ways that your haunted house can benefit the vicinity around where it is located. For example:

•Plan to give a portion of your profits to nearby schools.

•Donate to the local police department or other emergency organizations that serve the area.

•Do a canned food drive. Patrons who bring a can of food get 1.00 dollar off their ticket price!

•Make an effort to give teens something to do during the Halloween season. Light up a bonfire and offer drinks and snacks and a place for kids to hang out.

•Contact nearby churches to offer them the opportunity to visit the haunt on a special Youth Group Night with activities that will interest them specifically.

Getting Schools Involved In Your Haunt Plan

Local schools can provide you with volunteers or paid employees during your on-season. Teenagers particularly enjoy scaring in haunted houses. You can contact nearby schools and offer to donate a percentage of your profits to the program of their choice. This is both a public relations move as well as an altruistic community-building gesture that will help you put down roots in your community.

Submit a press release to local newspapers about the donation that you're making to nearby schools so that people in the community know that when they spend money at your haunt, that some of those funds go back to the schools.

•Send out a press release before your haunt opens

•Send out a press release after you've made your donation to the local schools

Donations to the local schools will help you gain permission to put up flyers marketing your event to teens and junior high kids as well as flyers marketing volunteer scare actor positions that are available in your haunt. The combination of volunteer recruitment and marketing of your actual event makes the amount of money that you donate to local schools worth every penny.

Community Churches And Youth Groups

Sometimes, religious groups will resist the development or support of a haunted house. It is helpful for you know a bit about the history of haunted houses, if this happens to you.

The haunted house was developed originally to convert wayward souls back to Christendom. This surprises some people. The first haunted house was actually called a Hell House and it depicted the various deadly sins and how people must suffer for them. Scenes from hell were also included in the first hell houses as well.

At the end of the hell house was a short discussion about Jesus and an opportunity for patrons to repent their sins and be saved. This part of the hell house was thought of and portrayed as heaven.

Hell houses are still in existence today. They tend to be run by church groups or Christian religious groups in the days leading up to Halloween.

Haunted houses were inspired by hell houses and, as mentioned above, can be beneficial to a number of community organizations, while keeping teens off the street and out of trouble in October. Citing the obvious correlations between haunted houses and hell houses is valuable if you find yourself in a situation where a nearby church group is working against you.

If there is a