Thread: Bird cage ideas?

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I have some really great old bird cages and was wondering if anyone has tried doing some props of any kind from them.? I am new at all these things and would love some ideas on how to make them look spooky with crows in them?
Any ideas would for inside or out would be great!
Thanks so much,

Crows sound good. I would make them a bit disheveled looking. Unkept, scragly looking and "hungry". Maybe perch them above a disgusting bloody pile of entrails and bones. You could have one with a torn out eyeball hanging from his beak. If you could animate it, the eye would swing and dangle as the head turns back and forth.

If you want to go in a comical approch you could make or purchase a crow skeleton and perch it with a little sign that reads "Forgot to feed the Bird".

Good Luck, Marc V.

The ride "Journey into Imagination with Figment" at Disney World, has a neat effect you might could replicate. In the ride, there is a section where you see a butterfly in a cage swinging back and forth on a perch...but as you round the corner...the butterfly suddenly disappears. The effect is really eerie because the perch still swings as if the butterfly has become invisible.

This illusion is simply done with a mirror running parallel thru the cage. You could do any number of Halloween effects like: make a bat turn into a vampire head, make a parrot instantly become skeletal. really anything! Just an idea.

here is a crappy vid of the effect. It's been slowed down to show how the illusion works. It's much cooler in person.
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That's a really neat effect! Gotta be some use for that in a haunt.

Here is a crappy pic of my birdcage setup (I would love to find some really elegant Victorian style cages, but this one was a $1 yardsale find). I put the birds outside all over the area and had a bloody hand hanging out of the cage itself with another bird perched up on the entertainment center (out of the frame but it's to the right) with a bloody eyeball dangling out of its beak. It looked wonderful!



A link to the bird with the eyeball thread: Raven with freshly plucked eyeball

Thanks so much to ALL of you! You really are great to offer up all the ideas. Hope I can come up with something that looks half as good as this stuff I will be doing ok then. You are awesome for helping me thank you, thank you! (I love the picture, really shows how great you did!)

Here is one I did last year with the tutorials from Frankies Girl and Cassie's eyeball muscle. I have had this old bird cage forever and after seeing thier ideas put it together.

Thanks so much, the ideas are great and I know you always come up with such great things to do with this kind of stuff. I can't begin to thank you enough for the wonderful ideas, and I can't wait to see what I end up with.....

Dollar store skeletons and feathers with sequins for eyes make crrepy little winged guys.

Witch from Canada did a nice job using a bat in a birdcage;

my version of the bat in cage