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Highlights from Goodwill Good Stuff covering the Indianapolis Children’s Museum Haunted House and local media features during the 2013 Halloween season.

Halloween · Posted October 30, 2013

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again

Originally published on the GoodwillIndy blog, this October 2013 post encouraged readers in the Indianapolis area to dress up and visit the Indianapolis Children’s Museum Haunted House. Goodwill stores have been a longtime resource for the Haunted House fundraiser, supplying costumes and props year after year.

Two animatronic monster figures in robes seated at a bar-like counter with motion-blurred colorful lighting, warm orange and purple Halloween tones Close-up of a handmade fabric spider craft with pipe-cleaner legs on a wood floor, brown and black tones A hand holding orange-handled scissors cutting strips of dark blue fabric on a carpeted floor

Indianapolis Children’s Museum Haunted House

Goodwill stores have been a resource for this annual fundraiser for years, helping bring the Haunted House to life with thrifty costume finds and donated pieces.

  • Indianapolis Children’s Museum Haunted House
  • Costume ideas from Goodwill finds
  • Thrifty fundraising support
  • Community Halloween spirit

Media Appearances

Alongside community event coverage, the Goodwill blog team has appeared in local media sharing Halloween costume ideas built from Goodwill items.

  • IndyStyle
  • Sherman Live
  • Fox 59
  • WTHR

These features highlighted how creative, low-cost costumes can come together from second-hand finds, tying back to Goodwill’s mission of educating, employing, and changing lives across central Indiana.

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