Halloween Skeletons!
These Halloween skeletons are easy to put together. I bought the basic, posable skeletons from the Oriental Trading Co.
Waltzing Skeletons
The sailor/pirate skeleton is wearing doll pants that I made, and a baby shirt and vest. I used bandanas for the waist and head bands. The vaudeville skeleton is wearing a baby dress bought at a second hand store and a hat and boa bought from Michael’s Craft Store. I also bought a doll’s wig from Michael’s and glued it on to her head. Finally I ripped and tore the clothes in strategic places.
I put plant stakes in the ground and attached the skeletons with catamount ties.
Dance Of The Dead
For the bride, I picked out some wedding dress material and wrapped and pinned it at her back. I bought a wig, dolls veil and bouquet at Michael’s and glued or tied everything together.
Wedding Night Forever
For the groom I shredded a boy’s baby suit and shirt. I also bought second hand baby shoes. The hat is made out of craft foam – just rolled, stapled and glued. The clothes don’t have to be well made; it’s the illusion that counts.
Halloween Bliss
The skeletons change positions every year. The year they danced, I played Strauss Waltzes for the trick-or-treaters.
I dripped green glitter glue in the plastic champagne cups for a moldy affect.
Too Much Champagne Perhaps?
The Death Of The Party
Eternal Bliss
To see the skeletons “in action,” click on this link: Skeletons
Those skeletons are awesomely scary!
What a fun idea!! I should have read this 35 years ago! One Halloween in that era the dad of one of our Cub Scouts dsersed up as Frankenstein in a costume that made him at least a foot taller than his already 6 ft. stature. He volunteered to help with the troop’s Halloween spook house by answering the door for trick-or-treaters. The trick was on them instead of the other way around, and the young scouts thoroughly enjoyed the surprised reactions!
Abegail,
What a funny story! I remember one time my Mom answered the door wearing a stocking mask over her face – scared the heck out of the kids…
Glad you liked the skeletons! Thanks!
I was thinking this mrnniog about how we used to dress as a hoboes, particularly in middle school. It was hoboes or gypsies, whatever you could raid from Dad’s or Mom’s closet. I realized that by dressing as a hobo, you are dressing as a homeless person. I don’t think that’s PC anymore.Glad this October is bringing you good health may all your trick-or-treaters be adorable and may there be just enough leftover candy.
Thank you for your good Halloween wishes! By the way, I think kids dressed as hobos – baggy jeans, flannel shirt, bundle on a stick – would be PC. That doesn’t look like today’s homeless person, just a colorful character from a bygone era. Happy Halloween to you too!