Cheap, easy Halloween haunted house props - Bone stew

It's Halloween. Every witch has a bone stew in her cauldron. This haunted house prop is a must have. Leg and arm bones jut out of the boiling cauldron. Floating in the mist is a spooky skull and rib-cage. Your Halloween guests will wonder if they're next on the menu. Here's how to make this cheap and easy Halloween haunted house prop.

Materials
Fog machine
Large Halloween cauldron
Fake plastic bones or a pull apart fake skeleton
Electric tea lights
Fall leaf garland

The set up

Place your Halloween cauldron on the ground or porch, just outside the entry door to your haunted house. Surround the cauldron with the tea lights so the kettle looks as if it's placed on an open fire. To disguise the tea-lights, wrap a fall leaf garland around the base of the kettle. The tea lights flickering flames will show, but the lights themselves will not.

Concocting the bone stew

Place the fog machine into the cauldron. String the cord out of sight, out and down the back of the cauldron. Place all the bones for the bubbling bone stew in the cauldron. If you bought a complete skeleton, break up the bones into sections before placing them in the pot. Arrange the bones in a fashion that appears as if someone was thrown into the brew. Once the fog machine is turned on, it will appear as if the bones are floating in a spooky, steaming brew.

Additional props and tips

If you already have a witches broom and/or a scary fake witch, these make awesome haunted house props to place next to the kettle, broom in hand. An old broomstick or wooden dowel makes an excellent stir stick for the cauldron.