Floating Ghosts for Haunted Houses
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What's a haunted house without a couple of resident ghosts? With ghost and spirit decoration, big is defiantly best. Here's how to make life-sized ghosts to levitate and haunt your house or garden.
To make a life-sized ghost you will need...
White balloons, white wool, safety pins, black paint of black felt tip pen, invisible thread (you can get this from a haberdashery or you could use fishing line) and sheer fabric like plain net curtain material or white muslin.
First, blow up the balloon and ties a knot in the end and leave to one side until later.
Take your fabric and fold it in half, and then in half again so that you can find the middle. Put the safety pin into the middle of the fabric. Cut jagged zigzags around the edge of the cloth.
Lay the cloth out flat and place the balloon on top of the safety pin. Gather up the material tightly trapping the balloon inside. Wrap the wool around the gathered fabric and tie it off tightly to create a neck. The balloon or 'Head' of the ghost should now have a safety pin at the top of it.
Thread the safety pin with invisible thread and tie the other end to wherever you ant the finished ghost to levitate. Add two more safety pins further down the sides or 'arms' of the ghost. Again thread these pins up with invisible threat and tie the other ends to something to give your ghost spooky arms.
Finally, give your spirits a ghostly expression as if they are wailing. OOOooo!