Well, we've decided on the theme for this year!

[johnsoneliza52]

We want to do kind of a haunted maze. As you all know, I like to use throw away stuff to make our display. We, as well as all of our frients, are saving the 12,18, and 30 pack cardboard containers from beer and pop, and that will be the wall structures ( pretend bricks...lol). I think I will diagram the maze, then have 'rooms' here and there will be creepy things in the room.

One of the problems I am seeing is that we usually have the adult party in the yard the Saturday before Halloween. This maze would curtail that. hmmm....thinking, thinking....

[Pumpkin_Man]

That sounds like fun. I would love to try your haunted maze out for size.

Mike

[NeverMore]

You gonna have any haunted maize in your haunted maze? Ba da dum!

[Pumpkin_Man]

Good one, NeverMore.

[EDGAR FROG]

Sounds like fun. You should post pics of it.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Maybe you should have simulated death traps or something, and a whole bag full of snickers bars or something good for the one who gets through the maze without getting caught in one of those traps.

Mike

[jadewik]

I've seen some interesting ways to make maze panels using landscape filter fabric. You could just make the maze easy to put up/ take down by making the (outer) panel frames out of PVC-- leaving the bottom end open to slip over Rebar that's driven into the ground. You could mark the rebar locations with landscape spraypaint... so you could take those up too.

That's the only suggestion I have... granted, it doesn't involve "throw away" materials.... but... sometimes reading different ideas can get the creative juices flowing.

[johnsoneliza52]

ITS NOT WORKING!!!! AAAAAAHHHH

The boxes are harder to stack properly and keep together than we thought they would be, and it is going to take sooo many more of them than we envisioned...
I think we are back to the drawing board!

[NeverMore]

Maybe you need some kind of frame to keep the boxes in place? I'm thinking a PVC pipe frame criss-crossed with strings, the boxes taped to the strings.