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Now, we've all been to the party store where they sell that fake barbed wire, right? Well i got thinking, and its very simple to make.

You Will Need:

spray insulation foam

News Paper (ALOT)

grey duct tape

red, grey, and brown spray paint

take the paper and make 2 inch strips (width)
start twisting them up into a wire like form, putting small drops of the spray insulation foam to keep it together. i stoped at ten feet of "wire" but you can go longer. Then, once it dried, i found a normal sized soccer ball, and coiled it around it. well actually, it wasnt fully dry, but thats ok. then, i made small pieces of newspaper as the barbs, which i then used duct tape to attatch randomly across the coiled "wire", then i spray painted it grey, with a little brown, and some red, so when people came to the entrance of the haunt, they looked up, saw it, and thought people had tried to escape, because there was blood. turned out great, u should try it!

have any pictures of it

Originally Posted by Homehaunter500

Now, we've all been to the party store where they sell that fake barbed wire, right? Well i got thinking, and its very simple to make.

You Will Need:

spray insulation foam

News Paper (ALOT)

grey duct tape

red, grey, and brown spray paint

take the paper and make 2 inch strips (width)
start twisting them up into a wire like form, putting small drops of the spray insulation foam to keep it together. i stoped at ten feet of "wire" but you can go longer. Then, once it dried, i found a normal sized soccer ball, and coiled it around it. well actually, it wasnt fully dry, but thats ok. then, i made small pieces of newspaper as the barbs, which i then used duct tape to attatch randomly across the coiled "wire", then i spray painted it grey, with a little brown, and some red, so when people came to the entrance of the haunt, they looked up, saw it, and thought people had tried to escape, because there was blood. turned out great, u should try it!

im sorry Trail of terror i do not maybe ill get some up this october!

Gotta be honest - it doesn't sound very easy.

Here is an easier method to make barbed wire. Anyway, all you need is twine, craft foam sheets, paint and scisors.

-Take the twine and dip it all in the paint can/bucket (silver, rust colored or whatever you want) and hang it to dry.
-Take the craft foam sheet (black worked ok) and make rows about 1/4" or less wide then cut them out.
-Take the long strips and cut smaller pieces about 1" or so.

-Take the twine and tie loose knot every 2-3"
-Insert craft foam pieces into knot in an overlaying "X" pattern then pull that knot tight.. repeat for each knot.
-trim barbs to give them a point
-dry brush silver craft paint over the knot and barbs

A 6' barb wire will take maybe an hour after the twine is done drying. It looks real and is easy to store for next year!!


I'd give credit to the creator but I don't rem who it was. Sorry

ive tried it with twine it did work, but the way i came up with was way simpler. for my way a ten foot piece takes 30 minutes

I just make my barbed wire out of bailing wire. I take two long longs however long needed. Cut several 1"-ish long pieces. twist a curl in the 1' pieces with the tip of some needle nose pliers. Slide them onto the long pieces of wire. Spread them out evenly, and twist the two long pieces together with one end clamped in a vise and twist the other end with vise grips. Tada, barb wire in less than 10min.

I like tb34's idea. I have seen it done with broken rubber bands for the barbs. Easy and safe too.

I remember seeing a great method a year or so ago, but can't remember where.

However, whilst searching I came up with this which produces very convincing wire;

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-...ake-barb-wire/