Thread: Christmas props for halloween???

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I have a couple of skiing polar bears that I'm thinking about cannabalizing...so instead of the ski poles extending down from the hands and going forward and back....I can replace the poles with knives and find a mask and outfit to fit over the polar bear frame

Originally Posted by Auntskaren

Oh I Love that teeter totter! Did you have trouble with little kids wanting to get on though?

No, nobody tried to get on and ride. Luckily!

DaveintheGrave, I love your teeter totter too! What a great idea.

dave in the grave, i love both versions of that teeter tottor, the halloween one a little better. that is smart how you used a tombstone. but i think you should have a ghost and skelly. everyone knows a witch turns to stone if she touches the ground in the graveyard. just joking. the witch was cool.
i was in the scary christmas contest last year, it was a blast doing it. and fun seeing what everyone came up with. i'm hoping larry has the contest again this year.

My christmas angel can be seen here http://www.halloweenforum.com/blogs/...-my-angel.html
I put her in the gy with a red spot on her and fog she looked awesome!Also in the blog there are pictures using a tree topper with drywall painted mounted to a tombstone.http://www.halloweenforum.com/blogs/...tombstone.html

Cool teeter-totter. 'Course, I like the creepy one better

I picked up one of those table-top animated Christmas dolls one year on clearance--you know the ones, they're often about 18-30 inches tall, are usually an angel, Santa, or Mrs. Claus holding a lit candle and waving their arms (mine is an angel) and often people put them in their bay windows for Xmas. I draped a piece of fabric over it, poked a hole in it for the candle to stick out, and drew a ghost face on it with a Sharpie. Easy animated & lighted ghost, waving a candle around, although meant for indoor use. People often ask me about it and where I got it. Didn't even have to destroy the original doll (just tucked the wings in), so if you use them post-Halloween, you can just remove the shroud and you're back where you started.

Originally Posted by cinders

DaveintheGrave, I love your teeter totter too! What a great idea.

Thanks, cinders!

Originally Posted by hallorenescene

dave in the grave, i love both versions of that teeter tottor, the halloween one a little better. that is smart how you used a tombstone. but i think you should have a ghost and skelly. everyone knows a witch turns to stone if she touches the ground in the graveyard. just joking. the witch was cool.

Thanks, hallorenescene! I wanted to put two skeletons on the see-saw, but I didn't feel like spending the money to buy another one and I just used what I already had.
I'll call it my "Halloween Diversity Teeter-Totter". Witches playing with Skeletons, Ghosts frolicking with Werewolves--all in joyous harmony. What a perfect world! LOL

A few days ago I was going through the "Tutorials" on this site (working on the PVC tea light candles now) ... BTW: I found decent "LED Tea Lights for 2 for $1 at the DOLLAR TREE store and bought 22 packs - thats 44 LED candles for $22) ... Anyway ...

I read through the tutorial for making Fire Fly lights like the ones used in Disneyland Pirates of the Caribbean ... I searched google and saw there are 2 companies that make these already (one set is static with solar power or standard 110V) and the other has mini fans on them that make them move and fly around ...

Links: http://www.fireflymagic.com/fireflie...es_lights.html and http://www.zenfireflies.com/

Both of these "buyable" sets are fine ... and are at a so-so price for what you get ... but I am one of those guys that likes to "make" stuff.

Today I was at "Target" and everything Christmas was out on the shelves for sale. I found these battery powered mini Christmas light LED sets for $6 for 18 lights on one strand. I guess these are used for "table top" models or indoor Christmas wreaths or whatever ... but I thought for $6 I could retro fit these to be the Fire flies I could hang from the tree in my atrium next halloween. The bulbs are all "white" but I am sure with a colored Sharpie I could make them green or yellow or whatever. The ones in the photo in the orange box are the ones that are continuous lit.

On the next isle over was a different set style ... these were Philips brand basically the same thing, but these lights TWINKLE ... note the package of the Philips photo ... these were $8. There was a box right next to it of "non-twinkling" style also made by Philips ... so if you go to get these and want the tinkle kind ... make sure the BOX SAYS TWINKLING on it because people mix up the correct items in the correct box at places like Target.

I think a nice mix of the twinkling and non-twinkling lights would look great ... The lights in both sets are strung together just light any string of christmas lights ... but I think with some tiny black wire, a soldering iron and some heat shrink tubing I can make these work perfect.

Anyway for anyone looking to make the firefly effect for next years Halloween ... get out to Target or a place like that ASAP before all the Xmas stuff disappears.

See photos below.

http://www.hi-rezdesigns.com/xmas_ha...d_standard.jpg
http://www.hi-rezdesigns.com/xmas_ha...ed_twinkle.jpg
http://www.hi-rezdesigns.com/xmas_ha...n/led_cu_2.jpg
http://www.hi-rezdesigns.com/xmas_ha...n/led_open.jpg
http://www.hi-rezdesigns.com/xmas_halloween/led_cu.jpg