Halloween Creations 2014

Halloween Props Creation. From this year and last year.
I made some of my best large decorations. Pumpkin Monster is my favorite right now.

Alien mask  stuffed with a balloon, metal fence post, material, scary gloves and eyes drawn on paper.
Garbage bag ghost is  a tomato cage a balloon and face drawn on with a marker.

Home made Headstones made of wood, bag of bones and dollar store skeleton heads and some old garden fencing.

Skeleton - Bought skeleton frame on sale, dollar store knight armor and rats, twig painted like a cigarette and a beer bottle.
Ghoul - Dollar store mask, my kids clothes stuffed with newspaper and dollar store hands and feet.
Bought the small skeleton for 10$

Spider Victim was a Walmart buy. One after seeing the quality I regret. Next year I buy spider cargo netting ) Bungee cord that looks like a spider web and put my own skeleton in it and dress him in some cloth with spider webs on him.  Yeah it would be that easy.

Pumpkin Monster - On clearance Pumpkin mask stuffed with newspaper, scary gloves I had in the shed, cloth I already had at home, fence post pieces of wood tied to it with rope a few hair bands and twist ties to make him stay.That Stomach he's sporting is a balloon tied under there, Looks harder than it was. The worst part was pounding in the pig fence post in the ground. Oh yeah, some paper in the eyes and I drew in eyes

When I bought  the skelton he looked so funny driving him home in my car.

$5 dollars at one of the local dollar stores.

He was a little more expensive. $15 and his eyes light up.

3 foot reaper from walmart for $15. He's vocal and animated by sound.

30$ on sale at Smiths.. My other big splurge this year.

Dollar store knocker

Striped Witch socks for $1 at Walgreens

Witches broom made from a branch that broke off our apple tree and weeds from up the road and some rope.

$2 witches hat from Walgreens, $2 spookie cloth Walmart, Old clothes and my witchy socks from walgreens stuffed with newspaper, $10 on sale witch mask from Smiths, I bought a $4 couldren from Smiths and filled it with my body parts from the dollar store from last year. Logs from my yard

2 Year Anniversary - September 13, 2014

So the impending  Anniversary of my fathers death was yesterday. But this year I was feeling it a bit.So to deal with my angst I did this............

So what if the neighbors think I'm weird... Lately, since he's died, I dive into this holiday. Just not usually in September... I've been adding a little every week since I'm in overtime at work. There will be more to come... I'm having my Fiance' build me a coffin this year to add to the collection. I found a witch mask so I've decided to build me a which and buy a plastic cauldron or make one who knows...

My son helping me with the placement felt he needing to be in the picture, but trying to hide. I made the Headstones last year
My fiance' cut them out of wood we had around the house. The joy of being with a construction workers. My son and I painted them. Obviously I did the lettering, but painting the base color lets him feel like a huge contributor. Which he is.

My son got to place all the bones.
You should always let your children help. They get a kick out of it.

My $5 dollar store find!

My son, an angel, and my skeleton dog from Smiths.

So a little update to my yard.... 10-3-2014

Yes, I drove home with the Skeleton showing in my seat just like this.

My son and the skeleton

A few humorous props don't hurt your Halloween any..

The witch I made this year.

My son keeps taking and playing with the skeletons helmet....

Halloween Headstones - Names and Epitaphs

Still need a touch up on my mistake on the bottom, But this is home made.
Right Down the The Name & Epitaph.

1.Here lies my wife, here let her lie. Now she's at rest and so am I
2.Count Dracula - Born:1432 - Died:1532, 1703, 1815, 1969, 2000
3.Dr. Doolittle-Goode
4.General K. Oss
5.Barry M. deaper
6.Fester N. Rott
7.Stella Live
8.Stella Live
9.Yule B. Heresune
10.~ Dracula ~Fangs for the Memories
11.~ John Penny ~
Reader, if cash you are in want of any
Dig six feet deep and you'll find a Penny
12.HERE LIES a man named Zeke
Second fastest draw in Cripple Creek
13.Here lies HENRY BLAKE
He stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake
14.Here lies the body of EDWARD HYDE
We laid him here because he died
15.Here lies Clyde Whose life was full
Until he tried To milk a bull
16.Grim death took me without any warning

I was well at night, and dead in the morning
17.Here lies the body of MARGARET BENT
She kicked up her heels And away she went
18.Here Lies Mr. Mere
got ran over by a John Deere
19.Creek E. bones
20.Ben N. Balmed
 21.C. N. Angels
22.Barry D'Live
23.Doug M. Upp (with a coffin sticking out of the ground)
24.Here lies mean ol' Mr. Jones
now he's just a bag of bones
25.Seymore Graves
If you can read this, get the heck off me.
26.Mary Aster, Should Have Walked a Little Faster
27.Rest in Pieces (body parts scattered around)
28.Here I lie
And no wonder I'm dead,
For the wheel of a semi
Went over my head.
29.Gil A. Teen
A Tisket
A Casket
His Head is in
the Basket
30.Here lies Kelly
We buried him today
He lived the life of Riley
When Riley was away
31. M. Awl Bones ~Dig em deep, Bury them good. For once I didn't and i found I
should (Skelton crawling out of ground)
32. I.M. Wormfood
33. L ite Dembfarts
34. Wong Mann
35.Moore Butts
36. Moore Lite - He was a good husband, A wonderful father, but a bad electrician.
37. Ma loves Pa, Pa loves women, Ma caught Pa with two women a swimmin ~ Here
lies Pa
38. Follpw Me ~ at your own risk
39.Waldo
40. well This SUCKS
42. Enter at your own Risk - Touch nothing and nothing will touch you
43. Our Dear, Lee Departed
44. We weren't sure who this was, but we buried him anyway.
45.Doug M Upp
46. Roaman D. Earth
47. Kiki D. Bucket "I told you I was sick"
 48.Frank N. Stein "Beloved husband, Bad haircut"
49.Barbie "Too much plastic Surgery"
50 .Here lies the body
     Of Margaret Bent
     Kicked up her heels
     And away she went.
51.Blown upward out of sight:
      He sought the leak by candlelight

Halloween - Fun with my Kid!

So it's that time of year again!
Spooky, scary, decorate your yard if you can afford it sort of thing..
Well I'm definitely on a budget.
So I went into the dollar store.....
Guess what? They sell body parts! Rubber rats, glow in the dark stuff...etc etc
Yeah, some of it's rather cheaply made, but if you shop right you can do a few things in your yard.
So here's a few ideas for you.....

I am giving what instructions I can to tell you how I did it or a link to the website I found it on.

Bodies!
Yes I made my own with a little help from the dollar store. I found some of my son's old clothes, my old clothes.
1. I got a bunch of those old plastic grocery bags.
2. A pile of junk mail and adds that were piling up around the house.
3. Old clothes.
4. Dollar Store Mask.
5. Dollar store body part ( bloody eyeballs, severed hand & feet, heart & liver)
6. I bought red dish washing soap & food coloring (To make blood that wouldn't attract bugs and animals)

My son and I crumples up the ads, newspaper & junk mail and put it in the old plastic grocery bags. Then I stuffed them through the arms and legs of the clothes and stuffed the butt and chest. I kinda took the time to give it the right shape by smashing it inside the clothes a but till it looked alright.

For the ghoul in the chair, I used a cheap mask and a hoodie for the head. I stuffed a bag and shaped it like a head, put the mask on it and shoved it in the hood. I'm probably going to find a pair of shoes that don't fit my son for the feet, and I'm thinking about some $1 kids gloves for the hands, but this is a play as you go sort of thing for me.

I gave the ghoul some hands with gloves and 

black marker to make the fingernails.

For the headless body we used our severed body parts and the mix for fake blood. Dropped the heart and liver on the ground near by and Walla! Dead body!












Spiderwebs!
Then there are those spiderwebs you can buy....

Spider webs in themselves creep people out for fear one of those itty bitty spider might slink on down. So lots of those (now available at the dollar stores..).

Skeletons!

Cheap easy plastic wrap a tree. Put a skeleton or a mummy on your tree.














Graveyards!

 Who doesn't love a creepy bloody Graveyard?This was the plastic fencing and Glow in the dark head stones they had with.. of course spiderwebs.

Needs a touch up still on the bottom.
I made a mistake on it.

My Sons contribution to my headstones.It's
Actually really Funny!

Boy drove me crazy to help when I was doing
This one.

My boy was happy to paint the cross to help with this.

Glow In The Dark!
















Dangly Things!

Making Ghost

 So I blew up a white balloon, took a whit trash bag and drew a face on both side, tied fishing string from the house to the trees, tied a small piece of from the balloon, cut a tiny hole in the bottom (now the top) of the bag put the balloon  inside the garbage bag threading the  fishing line out the little hole to tie to the string line you ran, Wallah! Cheap ghost (like the ones they sell).

Little dangly things to hang on your house. They have glow in the dark skeletons all over and normal.

Glow in the Dark bats. I did add some definition with a black marker so they could be seen better day or night.

DOOR SPOOKS!


My door Glow-in-the-Dark Skeleton head. I added black marker to make him more visible. I took a piece of paper and traced his eyes on it them colored it how I wanted too and taped it behind it to add more features to it.











I'm working on some home made bone I found HERE (Click Here)  . I am giving it a shot
 

Drying bones

So from the link for the other bones, I figuured
This one out.

Pretty good so far.... Needs to be painted now.

 


















Take Look In My Yard So Far!

Mother & Son Time

Now this, while isn't as scary, was done mainly by my son with a little help from mom.
I printed and cut out these pieces and shape. Pictures too. He colored, glued, and painted with water colors. I simply attached the shapes to black yarn, got some sticks from the yard and made the mobile part. We're going to put it up a day or two before Halloween because of our temperamental weather we have her. Since it's paper, it won't survive the rain & snow.

Halloween Mobile

Halloween Costume

A little Imagination and patience, you too could start making decorations all month long.

Now for the Bonus feature....
I made his ghost outfit.
from on dale material. I was going to use a cheap white sheet since we don't have any in our home to cannibalize, I sought out the material clearance section. I still have to make a hood on it, but that won't be too hard.
 Want to make your own too? Go to this Website (Ghost Costume)

With The hood I made but before the fringe.

Fringe added

 Busy weekends yes. Fun? Hell yeah!
And my boy has never made a mother so proud as to help her put bodies in the yard!

He's still spooked by the decorations a little bit now that they are completed. Helping to make them helped him be not so scared. But he still shows them off to EVERYONE who come over or even walks by the yard. My five year old loves the time we're spending together decorating the yard for Halloween.