I love Halloween! As a boy I would always save my lawn mowing money to buy
Halloween decorations to spice up my home for the upcoming all Hallows Eve
festivities.
My new hobby is to make my own Halloween decorations because,
let’s face it, all retail stores and the seasonal Halloween stores are a money
pit. This year I have decided to do a graveyard scene out in front of my condo
with things I built from the local hardware store.
You can buy an animated corpse in a cheaply built coffin
that, if you sneeze on it wrong you will tear it in half from a Halloween store,
or you can build one yourself for half the price.
After studying other blogs and websites I decided to try to
build my own wooden old west toe pincher style coffin with rope handles.
I bought 16 wooden pickets 6’ long and then I followed the
following diagram kindly provided by scarefx.com.
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| I used this diagram generously provided by http://www.scarefx.com |
The following photos show me constructing the life-sized
wooden coffin:
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| Screwing in the base boards |
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| Adding the finishing touches in construction |
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| Finished box ready to decorate |
Heck yes, Halloween decorations are too expensive! I love that you make your own high-quality ones, though.
ReplyDeleteI agree that Halloween decorations are too expensive. Unfortunately, I'm not nearly as handy as you, so I just go without. (Plus, my wife is too frightened of them to allow me to put them in the yard.)
ReplyDeleteProps to you. It looks awesome!
Thanks Jeff. What do you and your wife do for Halloween?
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