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| Ghastly Ghosts |
 | These home
made ghosts, ranging from tiny to large, are great additions to your haunted
house.
Making ghosts for
your haunted house is easy! The photos you see on this page
were made using these techniques! You can click on some of the smaller photos to
see larger ones.
Garbage Bag Ghosts
 Use balloons, white garbage bags (rectangle or square shaped), duct
tape, and fishing line or thread. Blow up the balloon to about 6 inches. Figure
out where you want your ghost to hang and cut 3 appropriate lengths of fishing
line (leave yourself a little extra to play with).
Attach a piece of fishing line or thread to the top, rounded part of the
balloon using plenty of duct tape. Make sure it is secure. Open the garbage bag
and roll down the sides so the inside, bottom is exposed. Make a hole in the
center of the bottom of the garbage bag just big enough for the fishing line or
thread to fit through. Grab the end of the fishing line that is attached to your
balloon, and thread it through the hole. Pull it all the way through the hole so
the bottom of the garbage bag rests against the balloon. Roll the sides back
down so the balloon is in your garbage bag. Cut a smaller piece of fishing line
or thread and loosely tie it around the bag where the balloon is to hold it in
place. Don't pull it tight!
Use a magic marker to make a face on the bag where the balloon is. I have
also cut eye and mouth shapes out of construction paper and glued them in place.
Tie or tape the other pieces of fishing line to the bottom corners of your
garbage bag. These will be the ghost's arms. Hang your ghost by tying up the
loose ends of the 3 pieces of fishing line!
Ghosts from Sheets
 We haunted our yard with these large ghosts. We made "T" shapes
out of 2 x 4's, and duct-taped a 12 inch child's ball to the top, center of the
"T". We then draped a sheet over it. Very simple! We held the sheet in place by
stapling it in the back to the wood. I made the eyes and mouths out of
construction paper and taped them in place.
[>>Charles<<]
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