Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:03 pm
#17771
Tblueikaos and everyone,
The skulls I buy have all been less then $5 a piece. I bought some online for $3.99 each and then I found almost the same skulls at Walmart for the same price so I bought 5 more. You could use wig heads from the beauty supply store, they are about $4-5 bucks.
I use
old newspaper (free)
plastic grocery bags (free)
wire coat hangers (I get free with my work shirts)
Plywood for bases (couple bucks for a small piece, get 3 to 4 bases out of it)
Paper towels and napkins (cheap to free depending where you get em
)
Mountain dew boxes (free with purchase of soda) I made all of this years hands out of mountain dew box cardboard.
scrap wood for spine of zombie (cheap to free depending where you get it)
Chicken wire (less the 10 bucks, still have some 2 years and 9 zombies later)
Duct tape (expensive $4 to $8 a roll, don't go cheap you'll regret it. I switched to masking tape this year.)
Carpet latex (can't remember -$20-$30 a bucket, but you water it down as you use it. Lasted two years)
Exterior latex paint (varies, go cheap - 15 a gallon or less)
So pretty cheap if you are creative with what you use, and don't be intimidated it looks much harder then it really is. There are no rules to art, so you can't really mess em up because they are supposed to be dead and messed up anyway.
This is for inspiration
http://www.pumpkinrot.com/
And this is for tips and tricks
http://www.spookyblue.com/halloween/gro ... eaker1.htm
Good Luck blueikaos
Ps I'm back from my cruise but I still feel like I'm on the boat
The skulls I buy have all been less then $5 a piece. I bought some online for $3.99 each and then I found almost the same skulls at Walmart for the same price so I bought 5 more. You could use wig heads from the beauty supply store, they are about $4-5 bucks.
I use
old newspaper (free)
plastic grocery bags (free)
wire coat hangers (I get free with my work shirts)
Plywood for bases (couple bucks for a small piece, get 3 to 4 bases out of it)
Paper towels and napkins (cheap to free depending where you get em
)Mountain dew boxes (free with purchase of soda) I made all of this years hands out of mountain dew box cardboard.
scrap wood for spine of zombie (cheap to free depending where you get it)
Chicken wire (less the 10 bucks, still have some 2 years and 9 zombies later)
Duct tape (expensive $4 to $8 a roll, don't go cheap you'll regret it. I switched to masking tape this year.)
Carpet latex (can't remember -$20-$30 a bucket, but you water it down as you use it. Lasted two years)
Exterior latex paint (varies, go cheap - 15 a gallon or less)
So pretty cheap if you are creative with what you use, and don't be intimidated it looks much harder then it really is. There are no rules to art, so you can't really mess em up because they are supposed to be dead and messed up anyway.
This is for inspiration
http://www.pumpkinrot.com/
And this is for tips and tricks
http://www.spookyblue.com/halloween/gro ... eaker1.htm
Good Luck blueikaos
Ps I'm back from my cruise but I still feel like I'm on the boat
Check out my blog The Captain's Ramblings
"The Artist formerly known as Buhdewsy"
"The Artist formerly known as Buhdewsy"
