"It's Halloween, I guess everyone's entitled to one good scare."
(Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later;1998)
Halloween is not very popular here in Poland but every year more and more people start celebrating this joyful day, mostly teenagers. Every year there are more and more Halloween stuff you can get at shopping centres, so maybe someday it’ll be an integral part of All Saints’ Day. That’s why I decided to make a Halloween tutorial for you. I’m sorry for the quality of the photos but I had to come back to my job and I don’t have a lot of free time. That’s why there are differences in light – some of them were taken in the morning and some in the evening. But nevertheless - Happy Halloween!
difficulty:easy
estimated time: half of the day (including time needed for drying)
estimated time: half of the day (including time needed for drying)
You need:
Tutorial steps:
1. Tear the orange tissue paper into small pieces.
2. Prepare some wallpaper adhesive – make it dense like jelly.
3. Smear the jar with wallpaper adhesive and stick pieces of tissue to it – with several layers, making sure there are no gaps. Smear every layer with the adhesive and leave it to dry.
4. Cut two pieces of string – one 40 cm long and one 100 cm long.
5. Tie the shorter string around the mouth of the jar. Then take the longer string and put its ends under the shorter string. Pull the ends and the centre of the string upwards until they’re equally long and tie a knot at the end.
6. Then take the longer string and put its ends under the shorter string. Pull the ends and the centre of the string upwards until they’re equally long and tie a knot at the end.
7. Cut out shapes of eyes and mouth from the black paper and glue them to the lantern..
8. Light the tealight and put it in the lantern. You can hang them at your porch as a decoration.
Downloadables:
- Printable version (pdf)
- a round jar (like this one, I’ve tried to find a product that comes with a jar like mine but I failed)
- natural fibre string
- orange tissue paper
- a piece of black paper
- a paintbrush
- wallpaper adhesive
- scissors
- tealight
- white glue
Tutorial steps:
1. Tear the orange tissue paper into small pieces.
2. Prepare some wallpaper adhesive – make it dense like jelly.
3. Smear the jar with wallpaper adhesive and stick pieces of tissue to it – with several layers, making sure there are no gaps. Smear every layer with the adhesive and leave it to dry.
4. Cut two pieces of string – one 40 cm long and one 100 cm long.
5. Tie the shorter string around the mouth of the jar. Then take the longer string and put its ends under the shorter string. Pull the ends and the centre of the string upwards until they’re equally long and tie a knot at the end.
6. Then take the longer string and put its ends under the shorter string. Pull the ends and the centre of the string upwards until they’re equally long and tie a knot at the end.
7. Cut out shapes of eyes and mouth from the black paper and glue them to the lantern..
8. Light the tealight and put it in the lantern. You can hang them at your porch as a decoration.
Downloadables:
- Printable version (pdf)
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