It's that time of year where I'm busy making Halloween decorations for our Halloween party. This year I decided to make a witch for our apple bobbin' station. Halloween decorations can get expensive, especially the large ones, so I gathered some things I already had around the house. I thought I'd share with you how I made my DIY witch.
First I started with an tomato cage turned upside down. I used a soccer ball for the head. I glued on a $1 witch mask to the soccer ball. Trying to figure out how to attach the soccer ball to the tomato cage was a bit frustrating at first. Then I broke out the handy dandy duct tape. It's not pretty but it got the job done. I also used the duct tape to attach a piece of pipe insulation for the arms.
I bent the pipe insulation to make an elbow and wrapped it with duct tape to hold it in place.
I used landscaping fabric for the dress. I measured it to where it would hang about a foot below the bottom of the tomato cage, then doubled that. I draped it inside the tomato cage using several pieces all the way around.
I made a scarf out of the landscaping fabric to cover the top of the tomato cage.
Then wrapped her arms with... landscaping fabric.
For the hands I cut out a piece of cardboard and attached wire for the fingers. Then wrapped it all with duct tape. I attached the hands to the pipe insulation with the duct tape. Duct tape, duct tape, duct tape, Yep it was the go to for this project!
I covered the hands with glue using a hot glue gun. Then added a layer of green paint.
I used green yarn for her hair. I cut the yarn into 2ish foot sections. Then used a hot glue gun to add small sections at a time.
Then I glued small sections of the yarn down at the base of her "neck" , so the soccer ball wouldn't show.
I didn't like the fleshy tone of the mask so I added some green paint to match her hands.
I'll be adding a stir stick to her hands once we get her set up in the apple bobbin' station.
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