[myke124]

After looking all over the web for help making sea weed for our pirate display this year I came up empty. I stumbled upon this by accident and thought I would share this with everyone. I had some thin 2' long trash bags I cut into strips to see if that would look anything like sea weed while trying to seperate the strands I stretched the strip by accident and loved the look so my daughter and I stretched each peice all the way down it. After doing this to many cut strips of trash bags I painted each different colors . This is really very easy to do hope you like it.

 

[JustJ]

That look great! What kind of paint did you use?

 

[myke124]

The dark colors are Rust-Oleum camo brown and green spray paint, the light green is actually Krylon yellow indoor/outdoor spray paint . When painting they blow around so easy its best to hold them at the top and spray them while holding then seprate each strand before they stick together.

 

[mayleth]

simple and cheap.
Love it!!

 

[badgirl]

Great idea! I may have to make some seaweed for our Haunted Tiki party

 

[ollieee]

That looks great Myke. I have been looking for some seaweed for my pirate haunt too. I think i'll give it a try. I want to to hang some in my cave set up. Thanks for the info.

 

[JustWhisper]

Wish I had known this before I spent a fortune on seaweed at Hobby Lobby. Even on sale it costs a small fortune. Thanks for this tip. I will still use it as I need more than what I have. Those look so real.

 

[preeti22]

Thanks for concept,
This is look simple but its too difficult to make it, after seeing these pictures i got some tricks.
Thanks again

 

[mikieofthedead]

Very cool! thanks for the idea

 

[Terra]

Brilliant!

 

[pumpkinpie]

Great idea...and tutorial...thanks so much for sharing

 

[lilybones]

That looks PERFECT. I figure you could use a clear gloss spray if you want 'em wet looking, too.. what a good solution!

 

[myke124]

Thanks for the replies everyone , i've used some ideas from this site and thought i'd share one of my own.

 

[Ghost of Spookie]

What a simple, cool effect. Cheap too! Pirates are a theme we have been planning for a while so something I will definitely remember and use.

 

[Wolfbeard]

Brilliant!

Thanks for a great tip! I'm doing Scary Tales and Mother Noose rhymes for next year's Boo Bash. This will be very useful for the "Little Mermaid" corpse scene!

Eric

 

[Lynn]

This is an awesome idea.. I can see putting this to use in many areas of the haunt!

 

[Figtreejohn]

So simple yet sublime (as the best tricks are!)

 

[Lynn]

OK here is something....... how could this be made with a fire retardant material?

 

[hallowskeepcreations]

love the seaweed..nice results!....

here is some pics of seaweed I made....3ft and 5ft regular paints and UV

 

[JonnF3]

Very cool. Thanks for the tip.