For Halloween 2008 I went low tech. I made a paper whirligig that spun around inside my jack o' lantern and made it look like the pumpkin was gnashing its teeth.
Apparently I've lost my pictures of this one so I'll have to just describe it. The whirligig consisted of a tube of tissue paper attached to a paper wheel to form a cylinder open at the bottom. The paper wheel balanced on a straightened paper clip attached to a frame that rested on the bottom of the pumpkin, so that the wheel could spin freely. Under the frame rested an LED light.
On the surface of the tissue paper tube I glued a black undulating pattern of teeth. I carved the pumpkin to allow enough breeze to blow into the interior to spin the whirligig if there was any wind at all. Spinning the whirligig created an impression of gnashing teeth as the undulating pattern rotated.
It was a pretty cool effect at about 10 feet, but it was really too subtle to be seen from the street.
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