Homemade Keg costume
DuganJ’s MAKE & CRAFT Halloween costume entry, a keg costume! – “Take an old keg, and with a few hours, a plasma cutter, a jig saw, and some big suspenders you have yourself a nice keg costume.” – Link.
Holiday Projects
HOW TO – Extend your arms (Halloween project)
Ghosts of Halloween has a good how-to on making simple extended arms and hands for your costume(s) – “While messing around with our new costumes (black cloaks with a hidden face) I kept thinking about how at Knott’s Scary Farm they have these guys that are about 10 feet tall with really long arms. I […]
Hello Kitty pumpkin
Here’s Morgan’s MAKE & CRAFT Halloween pumpkin, too cute! – Link. Related: MAKE Halloween projects – Link. MAKE Halloween archives – Link. Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests! Hack-o-Lantern contest: Decorate a pumpkin in any way you see fit, or unfit. It’s that easy. Then upload your photos to the MAKE or CRAFT Flickr photo […]
Burger King and Jack in the Box costumes…
David writes in with his MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contest entry… – “Hey MAKE. Love the Blog. This year my buddy and I are going as Burger King and Jack in the Box. The Burger King mask is made out of a fiberglass mold with the orignal sculpt done by hand in clay. We created […]
Homemade “Shaun of the Dead” LEGO Minifig costume
CoderKev writes – “My original Halloween plans got toasted, so I had to come up with something in short order. About a week ago, I was going thru Halloween ideas and remembered seeing this Lego MiniFig Costume. Lego’s been one of those fun things I’ve enjoyed staying a kid to enjoy. So, I decided to […]
What’s the best way to preserve a Jack O’Lantern?
Here are a bunch of experiments and results on jack o’ lanterns to see what chemical(s) preserve them the best… [via] – Link. Related: MAKE Halloween projects – Link. MAKE Halloween archives – Link. Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Contests! Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can […]
HOW TO – Pneumatic Tombstone!
Here’s a great “haunting with compressed air” project, Peter writes – “This project involves a hollow tombstone that has a seamless crack that when the pneumatic cylinder is activated the tombstone will break open reveling a creature inside. What’s good about this project is that all the mechanics are concealed inside and from the outside […]
