Many of the Denver Haunted Houses use makeup techniques such as these with their actors.  Many of the actors of the haunted houses spend a good hour if not more on their makeup so they look realistic and extra scary.  Next time you go to a haunted house you might notice how amazing the makeup on the actors is.  Its amazing to think that the actors in the haunted houses near you spend as much time and patients into their makeup as actors of a movie!

If you would like more information on the 13th Floor Haunted House, check out their website:  Denver Haunted Houses | Home

Halloween is a notorious time for pulling pranks on friends or even total strangers! Pranks can be fun for everyone as long they are done tastefully and nobody gets hurt. Here are some pranks you can try and pull off yourself come next Halloween.

Party Pranks

1.) As your guests arrive at your Halloween party, have someone dress up and scare people as they come into your house. Most of your guests won’t see it coming and it should all be for a good laugh.

2.) In the food you are serving at your Halloween party, add a fake finger or bugs to the plate or dish. Some unlucky guest will find it and be sure to scream. You could also apply this prank to someone’s glass. Find one of the fake fly’s in an ice cube and make a drink for one of your friends!

3.) While working in the kitchen, pretend to accidentally chop off one of your fingers and have some fake blood and a fake finger and you will be sure to get someone.

On your Own

1.) Create a “dummy” creature and place in your yard to attract attention of those who come and trick and treat on Halloween. Find a hidden spot across from this object and jump out and scare those unlucky trick or treaters! If you make your “dummy” stick out enough you will have no problem hiding!

2.) When you go up to knock on someone’s door when they answer fill their bowl up with candy before they can offer you any

3.) Dress up in a hospital patient outfit, mess up your hair and use some costume effects and create a few visible scars on your body and walk around saying comments that don’t make sense. You will be surprised how many people it freaks out!

If you are looking for more Halloween tricks, check out a Halloween blog online. For other Halloween ideas like places to go on Halloween or fun Denver Haunted Houses to attend, just check do a local Google search and you shouldn’t have trouble finding some fun!

If you are looking for something to do on Halloween there are many cost effective activities that people of all ages can enjoy. Not only is Halloween one of the most fun holidays for children, adults can enjoy it to.

Here are 5 Fun Things to do on Halloween:

1.) Take a child Trick or Treating: I can remember growing up how much fun it was to pick out or make a costume for Halloween to go trick or treating. We would always get a group of neighborhood kids together and take pictures and go door to door throughout our town collecting candy and showing off our costumes. The dads would pull a wagon behind us filled with drinks while our mothers would get together and hand out candy. It was a blast! If you are looking for something to do on Halloween and you don’t have kids, see if your neighbors or relatives would like you to take their kids out. It’s a fun time for everyone!

2.) Decorate your Lawn: I always enjoyed going up to the houses that were decorated on Halloween. It is really easy to decorate for the holiday and very inexpensive. Fill garbage bags with leaves, hang up spider webs on your house and make a few Styrofoam head stones. It can be really fun to do and easy to clean up!

3.) Host A Halloween Party: If you are anything like me, you love an excuse to throw a party. Halloween is the perfect holiday to dress up silly, make and eat some good food and socialize with your friends. Obviously this party will be themed and if you feel like it you could even have a dress up contest.

4.) Go to a Corn Maze: If you have a family a corn maze might be fun to attend on Halloween. There is so much more to do at a corn maze then the maze itself. Most have costume contests, serve hot apple cider and other treats and some even have a wagon ride which small children enjoy. Remember to keep your kids close, we don’t want them to get lost!

5.) Visit A Haunted House:If you like the whole theme of Halloween you probably like or are into scary things. Visiting a local haunted house is a great way to enjoy the holiday and get scared at the same time. Haunted houses are fun to go with a group of friends or even on a date. I like going to a haunted house or two a year, they are always great at changing the theme or layout.

If you are interested in more Halloween activities, check out Halloween Fun. There are many ways to enjoy this fun holiday, I strongly recommend checking out the many scary Haunted Houses in your area!

]]> http://www.halloweendenver.com/2009/08/5-fun-things-to-do-on-halloween/feed/ 0 http://www.halloweendenver.com/2009/08/corn-mazes-during-the-halloween-season/ http://www.halloweendenver.com/2009/08/corn-mazes-during-the-halloween-season/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:03:56 +0000 Halloween Denver http://www.halloweendenver.com/?p=145 There are many family-oriented activities available on or around Halloween. Denver haunted houses, trick-or-treating, parties, etc. are all par for the course. Perhaps the greatest seasonal activity for a family with young children, however, is to attend a corn maze.

Children are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes to haunt the maze as families attempt to find their way through it. Be sure children wear sufficiently warm clothing under their costumes, as it is often cold during this season.

A good corn maze will be somewhat challenging to navigate. It is traditional for there to be several ancillary program features.

Snacks such as kettle corn, cider, hot cocoa, caramel apples, roasted nuts, etc. are common delicacies. Some corn maze operators include an expanded menu to also embrace Oktoberfest. Bratwurst, beer and pretzels are therefore often included as menu choices.

Usually, carnival games are also offered attractions. These come in the form of ring toss games, bouncing tents, miniature bowling, etc. It is common to also see seasonal games such as bobbing for apples, costume contests, pumpkin carving and the like.

Remember to bring a camera to capture treasured images of your children playing, as well as walking through the maze. Many operators offer aerial-view maps of a given corn maze, in order to assist you on your journey. Even so, a good maze can prove difficult to complete. Therefore, there are usually several “emergency” exits along the way. Restroom facilities are normally provided in the form of portable toilets.

Clearly, there is a lot more to a corn maze than one might think. The veritable plethora of activities and treats available are sure to please all members of the family.

Parking is provided free of charge in the Boondocks Fun Center parking lot.  Forms of payment accepted are cash, Visa, Mastercard and American Express. Admission to the Boondocks Fun Center is free, as always, however, you do have to pay for attractions if you decide to play.  Hours of operation are Sunday through Thursday from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM and Friday and Saturday from 7:00 PM to Midnight.  While there is no age limit to enter The Asylum Haunted House, due to the graphic nature of the layout, it is not recommended for small children.  The house is handicap accessible. Photography and video recording are not permitted in The Asylum Haunted House.  The layout and features of the house are different every year.

There are live animals, reptiles and insects incorporated into the layout.  Visitors should not attempt to touch or otherwise handle them.  There are other hazards incorporated into the layout.  However, if you walk where directed you will make it through without incident.

Depending on how much money you want to spend on supplies and how much effort you’re willing to put into it, the more of these ideas used — the scarier your party will be.

Mix and match tips to fit your preference and check your haunted house or party setting over for any hazards your guests may run into. For a safe Halloween party, plan ahead and remove any possible dangers.

Party Tips

Halloween parties make a great alternative to trick-or treating for those getting too old or even to just change things up a bit. For an incredible, well-put together Halloween party, it’s best to make arrangements well in advance. Here’s some party planning tips for a terrifying good time.

• Send out Invitations

Get your party invitations out 1-2 weeks before the party. To avoid any confusion, clearly state instructions about themes, costumes, and when the party ends.

• Have Adult Supervision

For minors, adult supervision is necessary for safety reasons as well as preventing any property damage. Adults can help with the party and enforce rules, while the guests have fun.

• Have a Camera Handy

Take pictures and arrange them in a photo album to show your guests after the party. Better yet, Buy a huge photo album and add pictures every year, after your annual Halloween Party. It’s hilarious to watch how the costumes evolve over the years.

Another idea is to have someone take Polaroid pictures of each guest as they arrive. Give everyone their pic as they leave your party in remembrance of the occasion. Another option you could do is save the pictures for next years party and send the polaroid of the individual in the invitation.  This is a good way to get them motivated for your next haunted house – halloween party!

• Have a Backup Plan

If you’re planning your party outdoors, be prepared for inclement weather. Have other arrangements ready at a moments notice.

• Get Help in Decorating

Allow some guests to arrive early and help with the Halloween decorations. This will ease your workload and add some creative minds.

• Supply Food and Candy

And plenty of it. What’s a party without goodies? Try dressing up your food to look like gross things such as eyeballs, body parts, etc. Make the punch look like blood.

• Hand out Party Favors

Don’t let the kids leave empty handed. Hand out gifts to game contest winners and make up some party favor bags with Halloween candy.

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Here is a great video about one of the best Denver Haunted Houses out there by the Travel Channel.  The Asylum is one of the top haunted houses in the country recognized by the Travel Channel.  They Asylum is located just north of Denver, Colorado and should be on your top list of Denver Haunted Houses to visit this Halloween!

However, there is no evidence that souling was ever practiced in North America, where trick-or-treating may have developed independent of any Irish or British antecedent. The custom of wearing costumes and masks at Halloween goes back to Celtic traditions of attempting to copy the evil spirits or placate them, In Scotland for instance where the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white. Ruth Edna Kelley, in her 1919 history of the holiday, The Book of Hallowe’en, makes no mention of ritual begging in the chapter “Hallowe’en in America.” Kelley lived in Lynn, Massachusetts, a town with about 4,500 Irish immigrants, 1,900 English immigrants, and 700 Scottish immigrants in 1920. The thousands of Halloween postcards produced between the turn of the 20th century and the 1920s commonly show children but do not depict trick-or-treating. The editor of a collection of over 3,000 vintage Halloween postcards writes,

There are cards that mention the custom or show children in costumes at the doors of Denver Haunted Houses, but as far as we can tell they were printed later than the 1920s and more than likely even the 1930s. Tricksters of various sorts are shown on the early postcards, but not the means of appeasing them.

Thus, although a quarter million Scots-Irish immigrated to America between 1717 and 1770, the Irish Potato Famine brought more than a million immigrants to North America in 1845–1849, and British and Irish immigration to America peaked in the 1880s, ritualized begging on Halloween was virtually unknown in America until generations later.

The earliest known reference to ritual begging on Halloween in English speaking North America occurs in 1911, when a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, near the border of upstate New York, reported that it was normal for the smaller children to go street guising on Halloween between 6 and 7 p.m., visiting shops and neighbors to be rewarded with nuts and candies for their rhymes and songs. Another isolated reference to ritual begging on Halloween appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920.

The earliest known use in print of the term “trick or treat” appears in 1927, from Blackie, Alberta, Canada:

Hallowe’en provided an opportunity for real strenuous fun. No real damage was done except to the temper of some who had to hunt for wagon wheels, gates, wagons, barrels, etc., much of which decorated the front street. The youthful tormentors were at back door and front of Denver Haunted Houses demanding edible plunder by the word “trick or treat” to which the inmates gladly responded and sent the robbers away rejoicing.

Trick-or-treating does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the first U.S. appearances of the term in 1934, and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939.

(Source: wikipedia.org)