Ghost fun

Foam Ghost

 

Packing foam is a nice material to use to make ghost. It is stiff enough to reuse and to put outside. Paper ghost have the disadvantage of ripping to easily. If you have access to a copy machine you can enlarge most ghost templates. Don't hesitate to experiment.

For outdoor use you can get fishing line to hang from the house or trees. You can make them different sizes and make a family of ghosts.

Ghost Circle

6 Dowels
Small White garbage bags
Newspaper
Masking tape
Old white sheets
String
Black Marker


1. First, find a good location for your gathering of ghosts. They look especially good when circling a central pole, such as a tree or lamppost.

 

2. Next, cut your dowels to the height you'd like your ghosts to be. We've seen them in every size, from toddler height (quite cute) to larger than life (quite spooky). Remember: the larger the ghosts, the more sheets you'll need to use. The ghosts shown here are about 4 feet high.

 

3. To make a ghost head, stuff a small white garbage or paper bag with crumpled newspaper or leaves to the size you like. Push one of the dowels into the bag, then wrap masking tape around the neck to secure. Repeat for the rest of the ghosts.

 

4. Drape a sheet (or half a sheet, if you're making small ghosts) over each head and tie a piece of string around each neck. You may need to experiment with cutting your sheets to the right size; here, we used a queen-size sheet for each ghost and rounded the bottom edges to the desired length.

 

5. Use permanent black markers to draw a face on each ghost.

 

6. Gather your ghosts around the tree or pole -- with a foot or two between each one -- and push the dowels into the earth so that the sheets touch the ground. Angle the ghosts so that they are leaning slightly backward, then knot the corners of the sheets together as if the ghosts were holding hands.