How to make packing tape ghosts

Just in time for Halloween prep time! This is a classic prop and Monster Tutorials most visited tutorial and video. These ghosts are super easy and cheap to make.

Get my new e-book on Amazon! Check it out now by clicking on the above photo! Oh, I had fun making this! It has been one of my favorite projects. I have a huge display this year and she still holds her own, even with our 12 foot ghost and witch circle you can get those instructions here! The instructions I saw wrapped the ghost with packing tape sticky side out and then went back and re-wrapped it sticky side in. I knew from the get-go I was NOT going to attempt this with these directions!

How to make packing tape ghosts

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You can try other kinds but we have found the incandescent ones work much better than newer types of bulbs.

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Looking for an inexpensive DIY way to decorate your house for Halloween and wow your neighbors? A unique display that no one else on your block will have? Well, you're going to need some packing tape, plastic wrap, and some Christmas lights. With these items and a little imagination, you can create a haunting array of incredible ghostly sculptures, perfect for the spooky season. This Halloween hack involves wrapping yourself, a friend, or a mannequin in plastic wrap and then covering it in packing tape. After you cut the tape off, you'll tape the pieces back together to make a hollow human sculpture. You can illuminate the sculpture by placing lights inside. Some people have hung figures from trees to look like corpses, and others just make limbs, so you'll see a pair of legs or an arm sticking out from the ground.

How to make packing tape ghosts

Just in time for Halloween prep time! This is a classic prop and Monster Tutorials most visited tutorial and video. These ghosts are super easy and cheap to make.

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The more wrinkles in the plastic wrap: the better this ghost turns out. That would be an unpleasant surprise inside the house. Once you have the dress form you can make more every year. There are plastic dress forms on hangers they are cheap! My extra large spider on my homemade web caught the ghost! I got a good giggle from your comment! You need two layers of tape. Halloween Oh, I had fun making this! I definitely agree that the plastic wrap is an awesome idea!!! To secure it: I suggest getting some landscape pins from a home and garden store. I appreciate the visit! Also, expect that some teenage no-goods may find your ghost very attractive and try and bring her home with them.

All of these Ghosts are fun to make and even spookier to decorate your Halloween party with. There are lots of step by step duct tape ghost tutorials online but we decided some of these Halloween tutorials were the best the internet has to offer up for Halloween. You can use these Halloween ghosts as light up yard displays or set them out in the dark of night to resemble a transparent body walking across your front yard.

I definitely agree that the plastic wrap is an awesome idea!!! Silver Faceless Alien. Like Loading I had to pass on a baby doll I borrowed from our neighbor. Well done! Hold down any plastic wrap sections on the face and neck as you tape to create detail. Support for your ghost read below A bright black light to light the ghost make sure the bulb and housing are made for outdoor use. Farther north: the winters would affect it. If you tried to use a person 1. You should measure the height to the shoulders, where you will put the cross brace on the pvc support. This is a classic prop and Monster Tutorials most visited tutorial and video. Second you need a Styrofoam head or a large detached doll head. More importantly: ours blew over! You could try that but it would come out lumpy and dorky and not especially cool.