Thread: Skull Lights

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Okay fellow spooksters. My neighbor dropped off two strands of Christmas lights with skulls. The lights attach to a stake that is inserted into the skull and the stake can be put into the ground. It was a yard sale find. So here is the issue. The light strands consist of 25 lights each (2 strands). Several broken bulbs, but bulbs can be easily replaced. There are a total of 22 skulls. I haven't finished inspecting all of them to see if they can all work with the stakes or if some are broken. I only have about 18 stakes. My original thought was to just put lights in every other socket or every third socket and use them as a pathway light through my cemetery. (Oh, and yes the lights work without a bulb in every socket.) Now, I'm not so sure. I have 50 light sockets, 22 skulls and 18 stakes. I am throwing it out to my fellow haunters for ideas. Especially since my fictional t-shirt reads; "Everything I learned about haunting, I learned on HalloweenForum.com!"

I am guessing they are c-9 or c-7 bulbs? If so, you can cut the strands to be shorter (25 down to 22) (carefully, I might add...) Those bulbs aren't in a series like the mini Christmas lights are.

You could also make your own stakes out of PVC I would imagine.

I hope that helps!

How big are the skulls?

Get some of that black heat-resistant spraypaint for barbecues. Black out the bulbs you're not gonna use.

The skulls are about life size. Kind of dingy/dirty looking as well. Not dirty as they need to be cleaned. Dirty as touched up with brown paint.

I have a lot of broken or missing bulbs. Not a big problem. The bulbs should be easy to find online. They are c7 or c9. Didn't really look into that yet.

I've been toying with an idea, but have not been able to find cheap skulls that illuminate. It is a variation of the bottomless pit that I am calling a "Well of Souls." Basically it is a round bottomless pit, mirror on the bottom and half-mirrored film on the top with illuminated skulls and illuminated great stuff along the walls. I've had marginal success with dollar store styrofoam skulls, but have decided that illuminated skulls will work much better. Also, you'd be surprised how many of the plastic skulls on the marked do not illuminate when lit from the inside.

C7 is the size you'd typically find in a night light (but brighter). C9 are larger and what people typically decorate their house gutters with at Christmas time.

There are all sorts of things you could use them for. It all depends on how much work you want to put into them.

A few ideas:
Make a pile of skulls in a graveyard. You could even mix in some non-lighting ones.
Place them around your decorated/carved pumpkins.
Build a column or arch and add the skull lights to the face.
Find some flasher type bulbs and use them with any of the ideas above.

Really, the possibilities are endless.
Have fun! Post pics of what you decide.

Also, I had some smaller size plastic skulls from the local dollar store that I modified to fit over my landscaping lights one year. You just remove the normal cover and replace with the skull.

That sounds cool. A pile of skulls. Hmmmm....... Why didn't I think of that?

I shut off our landscape lighting for Halloween. I have enough problems dealing with our street light. At least those I have control over. They are pretty bright landscape lights.

Please keep the ideas coming.

If you want to use all the lights (and have figured out a way to replace the missing stakes), use something else in addition to skulls. I have a set of lights that sound similar, also a gift from a neighbor - mine has pumpkins instead of skulls. You could make covers from water or soda bottles - cut designs in the plastic and spray paint them.

I have a set of those skulls that I used for corpse heads. You can alter them with a dremel and make them look pretty cool.