Scary Kids Halloween Costumes

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So you have decided that this year the theme for Halloween is “spooky”, and you’ve probably already decided on a your kids scary Halloween costume, now all you need to do to set the whole mood for a spooky Halloween night is  to decorate your home and yard accordingly.

If you want to go all out when decorating for your kid’s spooky Halloween party, you will find that the quite honestly, the sky is the limit.

There are so many more ideas out there than ever before, in fact you are actually spoilt for choice!. One great idea are Halloween tombstones, they can look really authentic and if you have some placed in your front yard up to the door, to make it look like a small cemetery, they can look quite freaky and scary.

That’s not all you can do with tombstones, there are many different things you can do with them. You can even make them funny if you want to (if you make them yourself, that is).  You can easily make you own and add your own sayings, names, or dates. Do whatever it is you want.

To make your own homemade Halloween tombstones, you need something that is easy to work with and also easy to store away for another year. One of the very best materials that you can use is Styrofoam. This is what many of the store-bought tombstones are made of and you can do the same. Styrofoam is easy to shape and cut, though make sure you dispose of any extra pieces carefully, as this material will not be good for your yard or the environment if left lying around. When you are buying the sheets of Styrofoam the only thing you need to pay particular attention to, is to make sure the pieces are thick enough to stay sturdy and upright when used outdoors for Halloween tombstones.  Inside ones you can prop up against a wall, if needs be, so they don’t have to be quite so thick.

Once you have cut-out the basic shape that you want your Halloween tombstones to be, you can then use black or dark grey paint to paint them. Actually, you can do whatever you want. If you want red, go with red; if you want orange, go with orange (both these 2 would show up better in the dark anyway!). Try to use a waterproof paint if you can, though you may find that spray paint is the fastest and easiest type of paint to use. Once you have painted them, you can then take a knife
to carve out the words you want to appear on your Halloween tombstones. Once you’ve done that, the all you have left to do is to paint in the grooves with a different color to make the words stand out.

I told you it was easy to make them!

These Halloween tombstones, however, are going to be light weight. What you are going to have to be concerned about is that when you place them in your yard, you don’t want the wind blowing them away. Styrofoam could definitely blow away very easily.

One of the best ways to keep them in place would be to use tent stakes that you can put into the bottom of your tombstones and then down into the ground. The stakes should hold them upright and also hold them in place when the wind blow starts blowing.

Your Halloween tombstones could also be vulnerable to rain or snow, but you can’t do much about that – just watch for storm forecasts and take them in when you feel it’s needed.

If you don’t want to make your own tombstone props and you can’t find any in your local stores, you can usually find it by searching on the internet at one of the big  Halloween online stores.

Below you will see a video of how a guy uses power tools to attain the shape of the tombstone, which if you own one of these tools, it would make it a much faster project.  The bottom video shows how to paint the tombstone and make an epitaph on it …

Home-Made Halloween Props

Draw an outline of your tombstone onto the Styrofoam sheet and carefully cut it out. Write your RIP message on the front of the tombstone and then use your knife to carefully carve out the words to look like they’ve been engraved into [...]

Create Your Own Halloween Graveyard

Styrofoam and plywood also work well. Think up humorous epitaphs for your gravestones, here are a few sayings and ideas to get you started. Lay some spooky skulls, or bones at the base of your tombstones [...]

Haunted House Blog

Most tombstones are made out of Styrofoam, but I wanted mine to be extra sturdy because of what it’s holding, so I made it out of 3/4 plywood  [...]

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