Make Your Own Mummy for Halloween

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 at 4:06 pm

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Make Your Own Mummy

It is so much fun to decorate your house for Halloween and many creative ways to do it. For example, take fake spider webs and hang them in doorways, corners and in the bushes outside. Make homemade lanterns to hang on the porch. For a great focal point on your porch why not make a mummy.

To make a mummy you can use newspaper and a lot of it because you’ll make the whole body out of it. You could also buy an inflatable doll or mannequin.

To begin take the newspaper and start making life size body parts. This doesn’t have to be perfect now. When you’re done put the parts together using duck tape to hold it all together. Now take plain white toilet paper or gauze, which will be more expensive and start wrapping the newspaper body until it’s covered. You might need to tape down areas with scotch tape.

If creating a mummy out of newspaper doesn’t appeal to you grab some old cloths, lay them out on the floor and stuff them with the newspaper. For the hands take a pair of gloves and attach them to the arms and lightly stuff them with paper. For the head you can use a balloon or a gallon size jug.

Now begin wrapping your mummy with toilet paper or for a real authentic look use old white sheets if you have them. Cut it into thin strips and wrap snuggly around the stuffed cloths.

You can add a face by using black marker or black construction paper. Make the face look like holes where the eyes, nose and mouth would be.

You can leave your mummy a color white, or give it an aged appearance by using some spray paint. The two ideal colors to use for this are translucent beige and brown which you can easily buy from the craft store.

Now that your mummy is ready, put this where there is a lot of traffic like beside the front door to your house or in the dining room. While mummies are usually lying down, you can make your mummy sitting upright on a chair or standing. One suggestion would be to put the mummy near the table where the candy is.

If you want to scare people, put it where they don’t expect like the bathtub or the closet. If people ask where the toilet is, just give them the directions. The same goes if people come in and want to hang their coat then just wait until you hear a loud scream.

When Halloween is all over, take one last look at the mummy and then take it apart. Some of the stuff you use can be recycled for next year while the rest has to be thrown in the trash.