Hanging fake spider webs and creating your own lanterns is one way to decorate your house during Halloween. If you want to make something bigger or more life like, why not add a mummy?
To make one, you don’t have to buy a mannequin or an inflatable. You will need though a lot of newspaper since this will help make up the entire body.
When all the parts are ready, hold everything together using some tape then begin wrapping the mummy using bandages. The best ones to use are those used in the hospital. Since this is too expensive, you will have to substitute this with toilet paper instead. It is best to use the plain kind since people will probably laugh if they noticed that it has a flowery design.
Now that your mummy is ready, put this where there is a lot of traffic like beside the front door to your house or in the dining room.
If you want to scare people, put this in places where they don’t expect like the bathtub or the closet. If people ask where the toilet is, just give them the directions. The same goes if people come in and want to hang their coat then just wait until you hear a loud scream.
Another way of making a mummy will require adult size clothes for a large mummy and child size clothes for a small one. When you have it, lay these on the floor and start stuffing it using newspaper. If you notice, the end result will make your mummy look like a scarecrow.
For the hands of the mummy, get a pair of gloves then attach this to the arm then wrap this up using toilet paper or gauze. If you can spare an old white bed sheet which you can cut into strips, even better.
As for the head, try inflating a balloon or a gallon sized milk jug then put this near the collar of the shirt. Continue wrapping until you are also able to cover the mummy’s face. If you want to put some eyes, use black construction paper then glue this on the face.
While most mummies lie still, you can make your mummy different by letting it sit upright on a chair. One suggestion will be put the chair beside the table where the candies are.
Your life sized mummy will look great wherever you decide to put it. If the tissue, gauze or strips should come off just patch it up as fast as you can.
Although most mummies are color white, you can give it an aged appearance by using some spray paint. The two ideal colors to use for this are translucent beige and brown which you can easily buy from the craft store.
When Halloween is all over, take one last look at the mummy and then take it apart. Some of the stuff you use can be recycled for next year while the rest has to be thrown in the trash.
Now that you know how to make a life sized mummy, you can also use the toilet paper and gauze to create your own Halloween costume. If the two are identical, some people will think that they are talking to you when actually they are talking to a dummy.
1000 spooky and bewitching ideas and tips on how to create the spirit of Halloween in your own home and put the scream back into Halloween! Dip into this wonderful medley of practical advice and trivia and prepare yourself for the most haunting Halloween ever! Chapters include information on the lore and the history of Halloween, customs and superstitions of Halloween, recipes for tempting treats to serve at Halloween parties, ideas for creepy and original costumes, the best trick-or-treat and pumpkin carving tips, and ideas on how-to decorate a party room.
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Halloween is almost upon us. After costumes, decorations and candy, you’re not ready to rock and roll your party guests and those little trick or treaters until you’ve assembled a custom repertoire of ultra spooky Halloween sounds.
Luckily, this is an easy project today. With Midi, Wave and Real Player formats, music websites and your PC, you’re equipped to collect the creepiest, scariest, most ghoulish and spooky Halloween sounds ever, to scare the pants ? or whatever – off your audience!
The online hunting grounds for scary sound effects is more than abundant and terrifyingly fruitful and frightful. You can find ready-made CDs of spooky Halloween sounds at reasonable prices, or you can opt for short clips you mix and mash into your own custom set of creepy, crawly Halloween sounds.
You may want to burn a couple of CDs, or compile two separate playlists. With all of the spine-chilling sounds out there, you’ve got to take it a bit easy on the children. You don’t want them running from your doorstep empty-handed because they’re too frightened to knock! Now, the adults are able to handle some of the scarier effects, so reserve those special sounds for your grownup ? or teen ? party events.
For the kiddies, you can compile a combination of spooky Halloween sounds and kid‘s Halloween songs. For example, a little Monster Mash sandwiched between wind, lightning crackles and ghostlike sounds straight from the cemetery gives them a good dose of scary along with a funny song to lure them to the door. Everyone leaves satisfied and properly frightened. The bubbling witch’s cauldron is another kid‘s favorite. Do you remember ‘If you’re scary and you know it’? Make the kids laugh and scream before they haul away their treats.
Now, let’s turn our attention to those teens and adults claiming nerves of steel. Oh, the possibilities are deliciously disgusting, frightening and altogether not funny. In fact, what you can do with sound clips will probably require a period of comic relief for your invincible guests. Perhaps the theme song from Ghost Busters or the Adams Family might get those brave hearts beating again, if only for the moment ? hee-hee!
Here are just a few ideas you might enjoy. Now, the idea is that on Halloween, the spirits of the dead, demons and goblins are all let loose to do and say as they may. Such a night should get the neighborhood dogs, cats and werewolves howling. Get some such clips in your bag of tricks. If you’ve got a dramatist in your circle of friends, set them to work on blood-curdling screams, frightful groaning sounds and Exorcist-style gibberish. Record it all and get to editing your custom mix of spooky Halloween sounds. The demon-possessed gibberish, played at a volume clear for all to hear, may be followed by a startlingly louder crash of thunder and spine-tingling, hair raising crack of lightning. Now you’re cooking!
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