DIY Ghosts
Some of you may remember these from grade school — and you know what? They are just as much fun to make today as they were back then. Here’s how:
Ingredients:
- Laundry Starch
- Cheese cloth
- Bottle of all shapes and sizes to make forms out of
Tools:
- A bowl big enough to hold the starch and dip in the cheesecloth
- a plastic drop cloth
Make it:
- Lay down the drop cloth.
- Build a series of forms for the ghosts to take. If you use a pop bottle, consider taping a tennis ball to the top. If you want to have arms on your ghost, you can use any kind of a stick to do so, rolls of paper, aluminum foil, whatever you have around. You are only limited by your imagination - make the forms as big (or small) and scary as you want.
- Rip the cheesecloth into squares big enough to generously drape over the forms. Do rip it if you can, the dangling threads adds to the spooky effect.
- Dip the cheesecloth into the starch, wring it out and drape it over you form.
- Let the your ghosts dry overnight, and when dry, carefully slip them off the forms.
Some suggestions:
- When forming ghosts, put some of the forms on a brick or board, so that the cheesecloth looks like it is tumbling down invisible stairs.
- Hang some ghosts from a tree using fishing line. You can thread it through the top of the cheesecloth.
- Make them in all different shapes and sizes — ghosts were people, too…
