Halloween bat template. DIY Halloween decorations – ideas with photos
Traditionally, preparations are made thoroughly and in advance for All Saints' Day, which is celebrated on the night from October 31 to November 1. In addition to scary makeup or real monster makeup and a corresponding costume, the house must be decorated in holiday style. For this purpose, stencils, pictures, and Halloween decorations are most often used, which can be printed and cut out of paper. These could be images of bats, pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, cats, witches, and vampires. Moreover, use such paper templates it can be done in different ways. For example, for sketching an image on a birthday cake/cookies or for decorating glass on windows. Next, we offer you several cool collections with templates and stencils of Halloween pictures.
Cool stencils for cutting out paper for Halloween - a selection of DIY decorations
To decorate your home in an original and fun way for Halloween, do-it-yourself paper cutting stencils are ideal. Such versatile templates are suitable for decorating walls, windows, furniture or even treats.
A selection of cool stencils for Halloween decorations that you can cut out of paper.
For example, the following selection of cool stencils for cutting paper for Halloween contains images of the most popular characters of this holiday: a witch, a spider, a vampire, a ghost.
Halloween bat stencils - paper options that can be printed and cut out
The bat is probably the most popular character of the All Saints Day holiday. Not a single party can be complete without an image of this mammal. The following selection of paper bat stencils that you can print and cut out for Halloween will fit perfectly into any decor.
Halloween Bat Paper Stencils to Print and Cut Out
In addition, such stencils with bats can be entrusted to be cut out by little children, who will definitely love this idea. For examples of paper versions of Halloween bat stencils that can be printed and cut out, see the following selection.
Halloween pumpkin stencils - a collection of cool pictures for cutting out
The Jack-O-Lantern is a constant symbol of the holiday and a very important element of Halloween decor. To decorate a pumpkin in a holiday style, you can’t do without special templates. For example, you can use funny pictures-stencils for Halloween pumpkins in the form of funny faces.
A collection of fun Halloween pumpkin stencils that you can cut out.
Cool pictures depicting popular holiday characters - bats, witches on a broom, ghosts, etc. - are also suitable as stencils for carving pumpkins for Halloween.
Scary pictures to draw for Halloween - a selection of cool options for cakes and cookies
Halloween themed cookies and cakes are often decorated using scary pictures for sketching. This decor is very popular not only at children's parties. Adults also enjoy being treated to original delicacies with a “scary” design.
Options for scary pictures for sketching and decorating cakes and cookies for Halloween
We have collected examples of cool and scary pictures for drawing and decorating cookies and cakes for Halloween in the following collection with photos.
Halloween pictures for decorating window glass - options for cutting out paper
Using pictures cut out of paper, you can decorate glass and windows in an original way. For example, fill ready-made stencils with paints or felt-tip pens. Also, templates with monsters, ghosts and other All Saints Day characters can be filled with toothpaste, resulting in a very original decor.
Examples of pictures for cutting out paper that can be used to decorate windows and glass for Halloween
The most best examples For Halloween pictures for cutting out paper and decorating glass and windows, see the following selection.
What makeup and make-up can be done for Halloween - pictures and photos with examples
To celebrate All Saints' Day with joy, themed home decor will not be enough. You should definitely prepare a costume for some scary character, thinking in detail about what makeup or make-up you can do to complement your chosen Halloween look. There are a huge number of makeup options for this holiday, since human imagination in relation to monsters and monsters simply knows no bounds.
Pictures with examples of what kind of makeup and make-up you can do for Halloween
Therefore, we offer you a selection of popular pictures with examples of what kind of makeup and make-up you can do for Halloween.
Stencils, pictures, and Halloween decorations that can be printed and cut out of paper are versatile DIY decor options. They can be used to decorate glass, furniture, and walls. They are also great for sketching and decorating holiday treats (cakes, cookies) for All Saints' Day. Among the most popular patterns are black cats, pumpkins, ghosts, bats, spiders. We hope that the options for stencils and makeup/makeup pictures from our article will inspire you to get creative this Halloween!
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To completely transform into this or that character, you can’t imagine anything better than a suit with a mask. Especially if you can make a bat mask yourself from scrap materials in just 5-10 minutes.
- Black sheet of paper (preferably half cardboard)
- Black lace
- Gel silver pen
- Double-sided tape or glue
- Simple pencil
- Scissors
Step-by-step photo lesson:
On black paper we draw the silhouette of a bat with spread wings. To make all the lines clearly visible, you can use a white pencil. Then, using scissors, carefully cut out the mask along the pencil lines.
On each wing (near the body) we draw a silhouette for the eyes. You can depict them in the form of a silhouette of the eyes, in the form geometric shapes circle or oval.
Using small scissors or a utility knife, carefully cut out openings in the eye mask. Check that they are the same size and shape. Adjust as necessary.
Using a silver or white gel pen, draw the reflection of the fur from the moonlight on the bat. If there is no such material, then you can use regular gouache. For a thin application, take a brush with numbers from 0 to 3.
Then we measure the required length for tying the bandage. For this we take a black waxed cord or ribbon.
On the back of the mask we put the ends of the cord and seal them with small pieces of tape or apply glue.
Let the glue dry well and get a finished bat mask in literally a short period of time. This mask can be used both in games and for Halloween or New Year.
Hello, dear readers! Halloween is coming very soon, which means lovers of themed parties should slowly start preparing for it; this article will help you make decent decorations for any room with your own hands. It is impossible not to note the fact that this Western holiday in Russia does not carry any specific subtext, but rather is another reason for holding an unusual costume party!
This article is constantly updated with new ideas!
For the party to be a success, you need to create the appropriate atmosphere; with costumes, everything is generally clear, but what about the decor of the room? It is Halloween decor that will be discussed in this review.
By the way, reviews on Halloween decorations have already been published on our website, you can read them, and also Well, today I will present to your attention some fresh and easy-to-implement ideas regarding thematic decoration of your home for October 31st, the day of Halloween.
How to Make Halloween Decorations
✔ Bats
You need to prepare: black paper, scissors, double-sided tape, thread, printer or pencil.
✔ Ghost shadow or dark silhouette
You need to prepare: black paper, pencil, scissors, double-sided tape.
If there are steps in the house, you can create the effect of a frozen ghost. To do this, we take sheets of black paper, and on each of them we draw a part of an ominous shadow, then we cut out the elements of the future ghost and attach them to the end parts of the steps (see photo). I think you won’t have any problems with the body when drawing (just draw a shapeless robe), but the profile of the head may not work out, so below is the silhouette of a female and male head. 
✔ Mummies from the crypt
You need to prepare: mannequins in full height, bandages, strong tea.
We soak the bandages in strong tea, then dry them, and wrap the mannequins, not forgetting to leave the ends of the bandages hanging carelessly (as if they had been frayed by time). Mummy mannequins can be laid down or placed near the wall. 
✔ Halloween decorations - garden wheelbarrow with bones
You need to prepare: garden wheelbarrow, soil or sand, plastic bones.
If you plan to celebrate Halloween in a country house, then in addition to the house, you can also decorate the garden plot. We go to a prank store, buy a bag of plastic dice, fill a garden wheelbarrow with soil or sand, into which we casually bury the plastic dice.
✔ Zombies buried in the ground
You need to prepare: old trousers, jeans or trousers, socks, thread, sand.
Another interesting element for courtyard decor. We sew up each trouser leg from the bottom with threads, fill them with sand, sew them up at the top, put socks on the resulting legs, and place them upside down on the lawn.
✔ Zombie pumpkins for the plot
Need to find: pumpkins, knife, spoon, street candles.
Using a knife, we cut off the lid on top of the pumpkin, scoop out the pulp with a spoon, use a knife to cut out creepy faces on the side of the pumpkin, place street candles inside, close the lid, and find a suitable place for them near the house! By the way, we have a separate review on the topic of manufacturing - paper, wood, concrete (12 different master classes).
✔ Ominous pumpkins for the home
Need to buy: pumpkins, black spray paint or marker, face templates and tape.
Using tape, we attach a template-face to the side of the pumpkin, and paint the template part with black spray paint. The resulting pumpkins can be placed around the house - on the floor, tables, window sills, mantelpieces.
✔ Glamorous pumpkins
Transparent glue moment or glue gun, rhinestones different sizes, a small plastic spider.
Using glue, we attach rhinestones in the form of a web to the pumpkin, and somewhere on top we attach a plastic or rubber spider.
✔ Mummy pumpkin
You need to prepare in advance: pumpkin, bandages, toy eyes, glue moment.
We wrap the pumpkin in bandages, not forgetting to secure the toy eyes on the penultimate layer using instant glue. You can partially cover the bandages with red gouache, then the pumpkin will turn out a little more scary! 
Halloween photo decoration
✔ Faces on toilet paper
Need to purchase: rolls toilet paper, black paper, scissors, glue.
We cut out interesting faces from black paper (see photo below), and attach the resulting elements to toilet paper rolls with glue.
✔ Witch hat for cocktails
You need to prepare: black paper, a compass or two round glasses of different diameters, scissors, paper glue, a toothpick.
On black paper we draw with a compass two circles of different diameters, leave the larger one as the base of the hat, cut the smaller one in half and roll it into a cone (coat the side line of the cone with glue), after which we turn the lower part of the cone inward and also coat it with glue, then glue the cap to the base of the hat. Finally, we pierce the base of the cap with a toothpick and decorate cocktails, snacks or just plates with the resulting product.
✔ Skull masks
You must first prepare: white paper, pencil, scissors, tape, long wooden skewer.
Using a pencil, draw the outline of the skull (see photo below), cut it out with scissors, and glue a skewer to the base of the mask with tape. It turns out a mask with a handle. By the way, anyone can paint such masks with colored markers to their liking. You can even hold a competition for the most spectacular mask!
✔ Decorative broom
You need to stock up: scissors, coarse rope, thin branch.
We take a coarse rope, fold it in half, cut it with scissors, apply the resulting bristles to a thin stick, and tie it with the same coarse rope. Such miniature decorations can be placed around the house or to decorate plates for the table.
✔ Footprints around the house
You should prepare: black paper, printer, scissors, double-sided tape.
We print out the footprints on a printer (template below), cut them out and distribute them throughout the house - the floor, walls, furniture.
✔ Witch table or putting shoes on the table legs
You should prepare: shoes with pointed toes, striped knee socks.
We pull striped knee socks onto the table legs, and put old boots on them. That's it, the witch's table is ready!
✔ Templates for home decor
We print or redraw the templates, cut them out and glue them wherever we can stick something with double-sided tape (windows, doors, walls, refrigerator, beds, chairs, tables). Examples of patterns are presented below (black cats, witches hats, spiders and ghosts).
✔ Ghosts
How can we do without ghosts? After all, they add a special flavor. I present to your attention several simple ideas for making ghosts. We have a separate review on the topic of manufacturing (12 cool master classes).
A ghost from a book. We cut out the silhouette of a ghost on a book page (we don’t cut it all the way, we leave the sheet intact at the base), and bend it up.
Napkin ghost. We take a napkin, put something round inside - a large bead or a small nut, wrap a thread around the improvised head, draw eyes and a mouth with a marker, and hang the ghost from the chandelier.
Ghost from whatman paper. We take whatman paper, draw the outline of a ghost, cut it out with scissors, draw eyes, nose and mouth with a marker, attach the product to the wall with tape.
✔ Witch's supplies
Need to prepare: glass jars of different sizes, paper, pen or pencil, scissors, lighter, toy fingers or dried grass, dyes, water, glue.
Here, in general, everything is very simple, colored water is poured into the jars, and a label with the name of the potion is glued to the end of the glass container. It could be a potion of oblivion, a love potion, a potion of good luck. You can also pour crushed dried herbs into jars and label the labels according to its name.
✔ Black spiders
Should be prepared: cones, black spray paint, white beads, glue moment crystal, pompoms, black chenille wire.
First you need to paint the pine cone black, glue a pom-pom head to it, glue beaded eyes here, and paws made from beads to the body. chenille wire. We also have a separate review on our website on the topic of manufacturing (in total we have collected 10 the best master classes).
✔ Egyptian mummies
You need to prepare: ready-made doll toys or wire, rag tape or bandage.
In the case of a doll, you just need to wrap the toy with a bandage. You can also make a mummy from wire - creating a frame with legs, arms and a head, and then wrapping it all in several layers of bandage or white textile tape.
✔ Spider webs (web)
You need to prepare: disposable plate, hole punch, woolen threads, scissors.
We cut out the central part of the plate with scissors, use a hole punch to create many holes along the edges, into which we then thread a woolen thread, intertwining the threads with each other. We also have a separate review on the topic of making all kinds of webs from various materials(look for 6 master classes).
✔ Wreaths on the door with snakes
You should prepare: willow vine, toy snakes, hot glue gun, black spray paint.
We form a ring from the branches, then glue many small snakes to its end part, and finally paint the product with black paint. Many examples of wreaths are presented.
✔ Ominous predictions (exclusively for decoration)
You need to prepare: cups for tea or coffee, brewing tea or ground coffee, PVA glue, skewer, brush.
You can make a prediction from Harry Potter with makeup; to do this, draw an outline of the makeup in a cup of tea with a brush, and immediately sprinkle it with tea leaves and leave it to dry. You can do the same with ground coffee.
10 more cool Halloween themed decor ideas (video):
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Halloween is that special holiday that allows you to let your imagination run wild and decorate your home with stylized “horrible” but cute decorations. For Ghosts, cobwebs, bats, black cats and pumpkins, skeletons and mummies are the most popular characters in decorating houses and apartments on October 31st. Monsters from popular films and cartoons also often decorate walls and windows on Halloween.
The color scheme of the jewelry involves the use of black, orange, white and purple.
Should your child celebrate Halloween?
By the way, this holiday is great way overcome some childhood fears: darkness, ghosts, monsters under beds. By making Halloween decorations with his mother, drawing a funny mummy's face, or cutting out a garland of ghosts, the child gets rid of the fear of frightening characters, they become more understandable and simpler for him, less mysterious and creepy. Dark corners and monsters in the closet cease to be a terrible secret when everyone talks about them, they are decorated, they become holiday heroes. And sweets and treats further help add a pleasant atmosphere to this masquerade. Crafts for children that they make with their own hands are effective remedy some solutions psychological problems. So, even if you're not a Halloween fan, don't miss the opportunity to make some simple decorations with your child.
We offer a selection of decoration ideas that are easy enough to make with your children to decorate a classroom or room in the house.
DIY paper decoration ideas
The simplest, but very effective decorations are made from paper. By analogy with New Year's snowflakes It makes an excellent web.
You can cut out the silhouette of any holiday character from colored paper and attach it to a wall, window glass, curtains, hang it from a chandelier or in a doorway. You can cut out the same silhouette from plain white paper and color it as you wish.
Paper spider
Silhouettes of black cats made of paper
A white paper plate, paper pens, and strips of a regular napkin - and you have a cute and scary ghost.
Using a sheet of white paper cut or torn into strips, glue a mummy like this onto any dark surface. For the eyes you will need two circles of orange paper.
Paper pumpkin is a versatile decoration. It can be placed on a table, on a windowsill, or hung from a garland.
Below you will find templates for cutting out paper crafts.
Halloween Paper Garland Ideas and Templates
Garlands are a universal decoration. They can be cut out of paper, garbage bags, or you can use the idea of hanging gloves. filled with candies.
DIY Halloween decorations
Balloon ghosts look great. You don't even need balloons inflated with helium; just hang a regular balloon upside down with gauze or a transparent light cloth over it. And if you also draw a scary face or even just eyes on the fabric, then you are guaranteed a spectacular Halloween decor.
How to make DIY jewelry for yourself
Masks in the shape of a bat or glasses with cobwebs are the simplest decoration a child can make for himself. Mustaches, sponges, a mask in the shape of a pumpkin - these templates can be attached to a stick.
How to make decoration for dolls
Of course, dolls also need decorations for Halloween! What you can do with your own hands and quickly:
- Plasticine pumpkin bag,
- spider necklace drawn with a 3d pen,
- small paper witch hat,
- cardboard mask,
- a cape made of gauze or bandage, symbolizing a mummy.
How to make a web
The web can be made from wire or drawn with a 3D pen.
Video: how to draw a spider and web with a 3D pen
An excellent web is made from gauze. You need to stretch it well to create natural tears and sagging. You can decorate with spiders or bats.
Or we cut out the web like.
Video: how to make a web from a garbage bag
How to make a web out of paper
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Templates
These are the ghost garlands made from paper. Template below.
Print the template, cut along the outline and fold along the dotted lines. The voluminous festive pumpkin Jack is ready!
Easy cut out silhouettes for kids. The child can color them at his own discretion.
Decorating the room for Halloween
Here we have collected ideas in photos on how to decorate a classroom, assembly hall, house or apartment for Halloween. And also some ideas for creating a themed photo zone. 
Table decoration for children
On Halloween, there are usually pumpkin dishes on the table. Even if you're not a regular pumpkin pie fan, carving out pumpkin "Jacks" is too much fun. exciting activity to neglect them. For children, pumpkin can be replaced with orange or bell pepper! Working with them is easier and faster, and the result is no less attractive.
Here’s an idea on how to decorate glass glasses or wine glasses with black tape or isolette tape.
The theme of the ancient Celtic holiday of Saints' Day - Halloween turned out to be to the liking of the perky Russian people. The celebration of jokes and practical jokes quickly gained popularity among the population, along with other folk celebrations and festivities. Making decorations for Halloween with your own hands is very simple, because it requires imagination and a cheerful mood, and Russians have no time for this, especially since getting your home ready for the holiday is a very fun activity, and it’s also a pleasant chore: you need to provide yourself with a Halloween pumpkin for cutting out a lantern, printing and cutting out pictures with images of stylized bats, making a mock-up of a ghost for the porch, or for the ceiling, and don’t forget other holiday accessories, like cobwebs.
Making your own Halloween decorations is very easy.
Giving free rein to wild human imagination for the celebration of Halloween, you can make almost all the scary characters with your own hands from scrap materials.
- It could be a mummy made of bandages with button eyes or bats made of black paper.
- Doors wrapped in cobwebs with spectacular rubber spiders will scare anyone.
- With pumpkin - the main attribute of the celebration - many different variations have been invented. For example, in the absence of a real vegetable, you can make a pumpkin out of paper.
- Bats hung on a spiral from a chandelier will not only float colorfully around the room, but when the lights are turned off, they create a shadowy illusion of being in a mouse den.
Gallery: Halloween decorations (25 photos)
Room decor for Halloween (video)
How to Decorate a Room for Halloween
To get started, you need to decide on the options for how exactly you want to decorate the room. Very simple and original, and most importantly quick crafts will allow you to turn your house into a real palace of ghosts and monsters in a matter of minutes.
Very simple and original, and most importantly quick crafts will allow you to turn your house into a real palace of ghosts and monsters in a matter of minutes
Original decor ideas
- A very creative idea for decorating small jars to look like mummies. Glue black paper eyes on each jar and paint them with shiny varnish. Then wrap the jar with pieces of gauze, leaving only the eyes outside; cut the ends of the gauze at the bottom with scissors so that the bottom is a little frayed. Place a lit candle inside and your mummy is ready.
- A bottle of strong drink can be painted bright orange for the holiday. Draw a funny face on it with black paint.
- For little floating ghosts, take a Christmas tree garland with round balls. Hang a piece of white fabric on each balloon, making a hole at the top to thread through the bulb. Tighten the hole with thread. On the ghost's head, paint the eyes and mouth, and tighten the bottom with thread. Hang a garland around the hall of the house and light it in the evening in the presence of guests. Vivid impressions are guaranteed.
- Hanging ghosts look good. Take some foam balls and a piece of old gauze. Draw black on the balls acrylic paint terrifying eyes. Wrap them in gauze and hang the balls near the entrance to the room. Don't forget to give the gauze a messy look with scissors. For the full effect, you can paint the gauze ends a little more.
- Decorate indoor flowers in a vase on your home table with small artificial spiders. Take strands of yarn and widen the ends slightly to make it look like legs. Fold several threads up to 2 cm long together and make a knot. Glue white beads to the knot for eyes. Spray the spider with hairspray and let it dry.
- An ordinary toilet paper roll will help you make unusual glowing eyes. Cut out a scary image with large pupils in the middle of the sleeve. Place a glow stick inside each sleeve.
- Take orange balloon. Paint a scary face on it using a stencil.
- Small oranges can also become elements holiday decor. Tape the tousled bangs of the fruit at the base of the fruit. wool threads, draw eyes and mouth with acrylic paint or through a stencil.
- Fold the parchment paper several times into a square. Cut out the silhouette of the ghost, stretch it. It turns out to be a garland of many little ghosts holding hands.
Halloween Stencils: Interesting Ideas
Here you can give free rein to your imagination and imagination. Draw your favorite face or image on a thick piece of cardboard. Carefully think through the details, do not allow the design to be asymmetrical. Then cut out the template along the drawn contours. For frequent use of the stencil, it will be useful to stick tape on it. This is necessary so that the paint does not remain on the pattern and, accordingly, does not stain other crafts.
How to make a bat for Halloween
You will need:
- Black colored paper;
- Pencil or bat stencil;
- Thread;
- PVA glue.
This bat is very easy to glue
How to do:
- Draw the outlines of a bat on paper. Cut out the figure. It can then be used as a stencil.
- We trace the outlines of the paper mouse onto black paper. Cut out figures from colored paper.
- To make the material dense, you need to make a double mouse, and then glue the back and front sides together.
- For a believable image, after the paper has dried, slightly straighten and bend the wings.
Another version of a slightly embarrassed bat
These mice can be glued to the walls of the room with tape, or hung on a chandelier. Pull the thread between the two parts being glued in advance.
Scary Halloween silhouette
It is better to involve all family members to make the decorations. Give everyone the task of drawing a specific part of the silhouette. If you are using black paper, tape each piece together on the wrong side. After drying, carefully glue the silhouette onto the doorway in the room.
How to make a black cat from a pumpkin
Cute black cats at the doorstep will greet guests with their bright yellow, flickering, predatory gaze.
You will need:
- Several pumpkins of different sizes;
- Knife, spoon, scissors, nails without heads;
- Black acrylic paint;
- Disposable candles.
The black cat and Halloween are inseparable
How to do:
- For a cat, we choose a vegetable of this size: one smaller round pumpkin for the head, a large oblong body for the body, and a small elongated tail.
- Selected pumpkin - cut off the head at the base and scrape it well with a spoon so that the vegetable is empty inside.
- Draw eyes, cut out with a knife.
- Cut out ears from black paper and insert them into the openings made on the sides of the middle pumpkin.
- Color the elements of the cat's details black.
- After drying, connect the head to the body using nails.
- Place a saucer with a lit candle in the hollow head of the pumpkin.
Place the cat on the step, making sure that the structure does not fall. Your cat is ready for the terrifying “meow.”
How to make a spider garland
To get started, figure out how you plan to hang the spider web garland.
You will need:
- Wide gray or black thread of wool;
- Double-sided tape;
- Black threads for spiders, beads white, PVA glue.
How to do:
- When choosing a place for a garland, plan a meaningful symmetrical pattern, because everything should be as close as possible to the natural conditions of the spider world. We glue squares of tape at the points of contact with the wall. If you are planning a large web, you will need a lot of squares.
- For applique, it is best to make your own spider from threads; they are lighter in weight. Take three pieces of thread, 2 cm each. Rub the ends of the threads with your fingers, connect the threads with a knot right in the middle. Glue beads onto the knot.
- Pull the web thread through all fastening points with tape, pressing down at each fastening with your finger. Attach the spiders to the improvised web using double-sided tape.
Halloween lamp: step by step instructions
Necessary:
- Lamp with lampshade;
- A piece of gauze or cotton fabric;
- Scotch;
- Scissors;
- Stencil figurine of bats and spiders.
Lamps can also be made from cans
How to do:
- For the product, it is better to take a lamp with a light lampshade. Carefully grabbing the tape at the base of the lampshade, wrap gauze or chintz fabric around the rim to the lower end. Secure the gauze with tape.
- Cut out figures of bats and spiders from black paper or cardboard.
- Attach each figure with double-sided tape to the lamp shade. Before gluing with tape, bend the legs and wings in the opposite direction from the lampshade, thereby visually creating the effect of flying bats and crawling insects.
Scary ghost
Necessary:
- A piece of long gauze;
- Styrofoam ball for ghost head;
- Plastic bottle;
- Liquid starch;
- Scissors, thin wire, hair dryer.
What to do:
- Place a foam ball around your throat plastic bottle, make arms out to the sides from wire.
- Place gauze on the structure and cut the bottom with scissors so that there is a frayed bottom.
- Wet the gauze with liquid starch. The more starch, the more stable the future ghost will be. Use a hair dryer to dry.
- Cut out eyes and a mouth from black paper and stick to the base of the head.
When the starch dries, the ghost can be removed from the structure.