Thread: What to do when you have many plastic bones!

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I manage to get lots of plastic bones and I didn't know what to do with them all. Even a very cheap plastic skeleton falling apart. Original, I want to make him with six arms, but he is to cheap to try. But I did manage to make him better.

I removed the original head and used a Dollarama skull instead, use hangers and metal wire to hold everything together.

I did arms for graves with the extra hands and bones

I'd make 2 hanging chandeliers with them w/ 6 arms/hands holding the candles....Find the tutorial that the guy cut the fingers individually and then glued back together with wire in them....Once you do that, you could make them grasp paper towel rolls for candles or something similiar...Put wire through the arms so they can be shaped as well....Basically butt the arm ends up to each other to form a circle of hands holding candles....Make the 2 arms into a v shape....If you really feel energetic paper mache for creepiness or grab some cheese cloth and latex....Or whatever it is you do to "creep it out".....Yep....That's what I would do with 'em.....ZR

Thats alot of bones. Bluckys always fall apart. Sometimes I use copper tubing thru the bones. This makes it poseable. You could use any bendable tubing.

chandeliers- lamps-sconces

I have the same thing, a friend gave me a pile of these parts. I have the vision of a jail cell and I am going to have the really good rubber skeleton hanging from a rotating motor spinning around with bones all over the floor of the cell. Why.........I don't know.

I'v seen people make a morbid style baby mobile with a scull on top it would look so cool ....I really like the chandelier too!!! with some of the pvc candels people make with hot glue

I've taken to buying the cheapest plastic skeletons I can find that I know fall apart easily to reassemble into other creatures. I did a whole series of creatures for my Jabberwocky haunt last year with Dollar Tree skeleton parts.

Here's the clearest shot I can find right now:


You just kind of jam the pegs into the holes and adhere them however you can. Since the cheap skeletons are hollow, you can pretty easily reshape the bones by squeezing the plastic in on itself. I don't have the glue I used in front of me right now. It was a glue for plastic at Michaels that worked really well. Where that failed, I used duct tape and coercion.

So, spare bones=new monster skeletons. You can also bulk them up pretty easily with an air-drying clay and/or copious amounts of tape.

Could also make a bone fountain

In my house we always used the extra bones to make soup