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if you're not around on Halloween the hand out candy first of all you're a horrible human being but the least you can do is keep a bowl of candy out for the local monsters as an extra Flair I'm going to show you how to make it inexpensive interactive Halloween decoration that will light up your candy bowl as people approach your house so here's what you're going to need you're going to need a motion-activated flood light some colored bulbs to put in it they socket adapter this is just like 23 bucks a box to mount it all on this is a deluxe $14 craft tissue box it works perfect for this project but you could probably go a lot cheaper you can eat a whole big candy bowl to put the whole thing in an extension cord couple screws hopefully just have these around the house and of course lots of candy so the first thing we're going to want to do is to wire up our flood lights so that we can plug it into our extension cord right now we're just dealing with bare wires so we're gonna use the socket adapter we're going to pop out the little blades and then wire up each blade to the bare wire and have this all ready to plug right in so I'm going to thread the wire to the back of the adapter pull it through clamp it down do the same thing with the other wire good enough not to get electrocuted place the blades back in the adapter finally use this little wedge here to keep the wire separated no one gets hurt alright so now this $8 floodlight is a motion-activated lamp test it out we're gonna have to plug in our light bulbs I use these color-changing LED bulbs because one they don't get hot like incandescent bulbs will and also they came with a little handy color-changing remote control so I can dial in exactly what spooky color I want to use all right now it's time to mount the flood light onto the box we're going to do this for two reasons one we want the extra stability the box is going to give a little platform to raise it up above the candy we're also going to do this to conceal all the cables that are inside the box that we don't exactly want prying fingers to find alright so there we go got our nice light fixture here got the cables inside concealed now we're really doing this properly we'd probably paint the box up a nice black or orange color to make it thematically appropriate but for the sake of this demo this is what you're getting so here we go i got my bowl i got my light fixture in here first step is I'm going to plug it in to the extension cord set it up get it nice and centered all right now for the fun part horn in the candy all right come and get it kids get the name-brand candy got the good stuff all right and then for the last part let's adjust these lights down so that they give the candy a good spooky glow we're all set okay let's give this thing a shot see if it works it works all right so there you go that's how to make your own monster detecting candy illuminator a fun simple project and one that's affordable enough you're not going to mind if it gets stolen by vampires