Thread: Monster Mud Tree for the Peter Pan Room

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Monster Mud Tree:
I’ve built other monster mud items before so I thought a tree made out of monster mud would work well. We had the house framer build the walls and basic shape of the tree for us. He thought we were a little crazy at first but now he sees the madness behind the idea.

After the framing and dry wall was completed we built the shape of the tree out of wire mesh and stapled the mesh to the wall being careful to staple it to the frame. We probably used way too many staples but I wanted to be sure it was secure.

In some of the area of the mesh we were having problems getting the mesh to bulge out from the wall. We simple shoved plastic trash bags in those areas to keep the mesh from collapsing.

Next came the first coat of Monster Mud. We mixed the monster mud recipe and dipped long strips of cloth into the mud and just started laying it over the mesh. A few days later we put another coat of monster mud and cloth on the tree.


I painted the tree and shade of brown but it wasn’t necessary because we found some really cool fake tree bark at a store and used that for the outside. We also bought several used fake/plastic trees to cut up and use for the top of the tree. My wife added moss and Christmas lights in the tree for the finishing touches.




Oops, part of the pirate area.

So awesome...great job

Fake bark? can you elaborate a bit?

The bark is just a plastic/rubber piece of material that we found at Orential Trade store. We cut it up into strips and stapled it to the tree. I'm not sure if the store carries it any more. I think it was on a sale table.

That is absolutely fantastic! done with class and style! i love it and what kid wouldnt look at that in AWE! great job to you and your wife. And congrats on the house being finished as well!

A great prop!!!

Looks very nice. Always have loved peter pan.

It looks amazing!!! Please come build one at my house now lol

The tree looks amazing!

OH MY! It's a stunner and so, so, sooooo realistic.