Very creepy song. Halloween Music (Free Download) Do You Need A Hand? Creating Awesome Monster Hands for Your Halloween Prop | Halloween Alliance. By Screaming Scarecrow Studios Another Halloween How To Article from the lurking lunatics at Screaming Scarecrow Studios One thing all home haunters can use, as the Halloween Season draws near, is a few extra pair of hands.
No matter what the scale of your Halloween haunt, there never seems to be enough helping hands around to complete every project you’ve dreamt up – something always ends up on the “Oh well, we’ll do it next year” pile. Sadly we can’t offer any help with that particular problem but if you find yourself in short supply of Monster Hands then read on and find out how we create cheap & easy hands for some of our Halloween props. Give A Hand to Your Monster Click on any picture for a closeup Now with that out of the way; often times in the past we’ve not had enough time or money to finish off a monster prop with a decent pair of hands. Latex Gloves and Witch Fingers We start with a few pairs of cheap latex gloves, the regular kind used for common household chores. Ghosts of Halloween. Flying Crank Ghost. Flying Crank Ghost instructions. How To Build Stone Walls. We always want to hear how you have improved or changed our projects.
Here's a great idea for the Stone Wall. Howard shows how he used one of the basic ideas here to produce a very simple, useable wall. Thanks, Scary Guy! Check out Howard Kennedy's version of Stone Walls! The Cheap Stone Wall (pt. 1) Here's a great way to build durable, inexpensive rock or brick walls for caverns or dungeons (my favorite places). Materials: Wall base (plywood, styrofoam or sheetrock panels with framing support) Sheetrock/gypsum board joint compound (in the 5gal bucket) Paint (1-2gal. The Process: Decide on what finish you want up front - this determines the form you buy (brick or stone) and the colors of paint you will buy: black and white paint for a rock finish; red, white, and black paint for a brick finish.
A pic of a Crypt facade that I'm building Stone Finsh I'll talk about the stone finish first: Using the Concrete Form to press the stones into the joint compound Brick Finish Now, for a brick finish: Monster Page of Halloween Project Links. Scary Jack-in-the-Box - Page 6. When I make a prop I try to do it as simple as possible and my JNB is no different basically it's a 18 inch throw air cylinder with a head and mask.Short version make your box Put a piece of 2x4 across the center of the box on the inside and drill a hole through the center of the 2x4 for your air cylinder to go through. Depending on how tall your box is you might have to add something to the inside bottom of the box to get the air cylinder to the right height. This is the way I did it and the 2x4 with the hole drilled into it goes at the top of you air cylinder Here's the cylinder I used I put my clown mask over the head and I used a 3 inch dryer hose as the neck.
Attached to the neck of the foam head and the 2x4 with the hole drilled into it. I used PVC to make the crank and a deer motor to turn it. The top of the box is lite weight plywood and the head pushes it up when the prop is activated. I connected a piece of wire on both sides of the lid to limit how far it will go up. Cheap 8' tall Jack in the Box - Haunt 2008. Quiet Slumber - Creepy Music Box.