#3 Pack up the Kids!!

For Halloween this year I tried PACKING TAPE BODY SCULPTURE.  I had always wanted to try this.

My eager volunteer, Jackson, did a great job.  For like the first 15 minutes.  For the next four hour long sessions I employed the magic of bribery.  Totally worth it if you are looking for that spooky ghosty yard look. 

Here's the technique:
1.  Backwards wrap, sticky side up until thoroughly covered, no missing spots.  Do this in sections.  Try to do a couple of layers at least.
2.  Now wrap sticky side down, several layers.  The more layers the more strength.
3.  Using medical scissors, cut slits to release your form, or er, child.
4.  Reseal the slits with packing tape.  If done well, you can't even see the slits.
5.  Seal sections together with packing tape.
6.  Do not wrap the actual head due to lethal reasons you can figure out.  We used a balloon.
7.  Display the awesomeness.  You can even put lights inside and let it glow.

Sticky side up.  Mommy's little Mummy.

"This is taking FOREVER!!" -Jackson (Um, we just started- hate to break the news.)

Resembling a snake skin.  He hatched.

Taped back up.  "That's really what I look like?" -Jackson

Legs.  Hat.  Whatever. 

Headless pushups.  Creepy.

Our rude dinner guest that sits in the corner waiting to get ahead in life.

Ahead in life.

Turns out estimating too big with a balloon gives an alien effect.

Floating over my cemetery=scared myself.  See my own real ghost who lives at my house- the story.

I kinda love Halloween.  I also had creepy eyes in the windows on huge tv screens playing video of real eyeballs looking around close up.  I know,  I'm sick.

Just as long as I don't ever make a kid pee his pants on my front doorstep ever again like at Halloween few years ago.  That's my goal.  I still feel bad about that one.