Need a helping hand with resources?
These are our recommended places to go for your prop build and animatronic supplies.
Where to Purchase
Animated Props, Static Props, Motors
Kindy’s Christmas Factory Outlet
Generic Art Supplies
Building Supplies and Tools
Electronics
Pneumatics
Props to be Hacked can be found in the seasonal section of many stores, including:
Best Products
Best Cobweb Gun
i-Zombie Production’s ‘Black Widow’ + UV reactive cobweb sticks
Best Fog Juice
Best Fog Machines and DJ style lighting effects
Best Large Spider Webs
Best UV LED Outdoor Black Light
Spiderwebman.net’s 6W Outdoor LED Black Light
Best Thunder and Lightning Effect
Best joints for posing PVC armatures and skeletons
Spider Hill Prop Works’ Spider Joints
Best place for used clothing and other items to repurpose
Here’s a helpful list of material that will come in handy for any haunter.
4" x 7" construction plates for attaching tombstones to a base.
Burlap, that has a tight weave, for making statues when dipped in monster mud.
Charcoal powder or Fuller's earth can be sprinkled over gray or black acrylic paint to look like dirt; set with clear matte spray.
Dremel tools including multipurpose cutting kit #565, triangle bit #125 and round edge bit #117 for cutting the epitaph into tombstones.
Drylok "masonry sealer" to waterproof props, especially useful for foam tombstones.
EPS and XPS foam sheets can be used for tombstones and other props, much less flammable than the white foam.
Foam wig heads can be used for the head of a flying crank ghost, or many other scary props.
Keyhole saw for cutting the foam for tombstones or Pro Hot Wire knife and power supply from Hotwire Foam Factory or Free Hand Router from Hotwire Foam Factory.
Minwax gel stains to make plastic skeletons look more realistic or add color to corpsed skeletons.