How To Make Great Halloween Graveyard Fog

by Wanda @ From House To Home

I love Halloween! Every year I have set up a graveyard in my front yard that the kids walk through to get to my front door. And a graveyard needs fog! Fog rolling around among the tombstones, making everything seem spookier.

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I use a very inexpensive fog machine that I bought at a big box store a few years back. When I first starting using the fog machine, I noticed that it didn't create the effect I wanted. There was all kinds of fog where the fog machine was and none anywhere else. And that fog seemed to raise straight up in the air and disappear...not the rolling around the tombstones look I wanted!

The solution? Some plastic french drain pipe, duck tape and some frozen water bottles. The drain pipe is used to distribute the fog...it will come out of the holes along the length of the tube. The frozen water bottles cool the fog temperature which keeps it closer to the ground (this step may not be necessary if you live in an area that tends to have cool temperatures on Halloween night...where I live in South Carolina, this step is a necessity!)

First step is to lay the tubing on the ground in a hidden location...under some bushes, along the back of a fence or around the bottom of a deck. This is where the fog is going to come out from.

Next step, use duck tape to seal one end of the tube. You probably want this to be the end furthest away from your electrical outlet because the fog machine is going to go at the other end.

Third step, slide the frozen bottles of water into the tube so that they are back to back in the tube.

Last step, put the nozzle of the fog machine into the open end of the landscape pipe and turn it on. Then watch as your fog seeps out across your cemetery!