The cackle gets everyone
Sound trigger catches trick-or-treaters at exactly the right distance. My teenager pretended not to jump. He jumped.

Motion, sound and a build that survives October outdoors.
See it in the scene: The Front Lawn →
Sound-activated, 120V plug-in, built for outdoors
A life-size witch in purple gauze over a black tattered robe, hands out over a black cauldron hung by chain from a tripod, red eyes lit and the pot full of green-glowing eyeballs. She is sound-activated, so she holds still until she hears someone coming up the walk, then kicks into motion and sound for whoever set her off. Plug her into the porch outlet and park her on the front lawn where the walkway bends.
Black pot on a chain, hung off a black tripod, filled with eyeballs that glow green. Most witch props leave you hunting for a cauldron the week before; this one shows up as a finished scene, and her hands are already posed over it.
120V plug-in, so she runs off the porch outlet and one extension cord. No battery door to open with a flashlight at 8 p.m. when the line of kids is longest and she has gone quiet.
Red eyes, a gap-toothed grin, long pale fingers. Enough to make a seven-year-old stop at the edge of the lawn, not enough to send a four-year-old back to the car. Nothing on her that needs a content warning. She is a front-lawn witch, not a haunted-trail one.
Around dusk she gets plugged in, and every group that comes up the walk sets her off. The small ones stop at the cauldron to stare at the eyeballs while the parents hang back by the sidewalk. On November 1st she packs flat into the tote, the cauldron goes on a shelf, and she waits in the closet for next October. Ships in 5 to 7 days, 3 to 4 express.
What holds up
Sound trigger catches trick-or-treaters at exactly the right distance. My teenager pretended not to jump. He jumped.
The movement is subtler than the video made it look — more sway than lunge. In the dark with an uplight it works.