Be a ghoulish Picasso with your Fox Lake garage door as your canvas

In the past, you may have created a spooky Halloween scene in your Fox Lake garage. You covered the walls with black plastic and decorated with scary creatures. In the middle of the garage, you had a decorated table with a tub of candy for trick or treaters. But, with COVID-19, you may not feel inclined to open the garage to all those little ghouls. 

This doesn’t mean you have to skip Halloween Trick-or-Treating altogether. You simply need to modify your approach – apply your creativity a little differently. Even if you never created a haunted hovel in the garage before, you may want to give it a whirl this year, just for fun.

Keeping the garage door closed means witches and goblins can’t come in. But you can still provide a scary scene outside. Maybe you’ll have a bowl of candy on a table outside the garage for trick or treaters to take from on the honor system.

Think of your garage door as a eerie canvas where you can express the frightening specters of your creative juices. Along with blow-up dragons and witches on the front lawn, you can make your garage door the envy of the neighborhood this Halloween. Just to get those creative juices flowing, here are some ideas to consider:

• Project Halloween images onto your garage door
• Strategically place a light so it shines through a sheet dancing in the breeze to create petrifying shadows on the door
• Put a black sheet on the door and decorate it with spooky cutouts and pictures
• Fill a glove, put it in a shirt, stick it under the garage door 
• Make a flattened witch with the back of a broom sticking out of the garage door as though they crashed
• Put spooky figures in the windows alongside the garage door with light shining up on them, or from behind, so that they create a haunting image
• Put spider webs in the corners and tombstones of a graveyard in front of the garage door
• Make it appear that blood is dripping from between the panels of the door as though the garage is filled to the brim with blood
• Decorate as though the door is a large face with scary eyes and sharp teeth
• Hang bats from the eves

Of course, you may want to open the garage door and build a haunted scene inside. Whatever you decide, have a wonderful and spooky Fox Lake Halloween.

Currently, Trick or Treating is scheduled for 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday. However, you should check with the city for any changes in hours or special instructions related to the pandemic.