Making a Corpsed Skull

Face it, scaring and grossing out trick-or-treaters on Halloween is a lot of fun.

Here's one prop I made last year for my Halloween Cannibal BBQ (or is it BB-kill?). I put in blinking Christmas lights into my gas grill and cover that with red cellophane, topped with the grill and grill rocks. Rapid blinking underneath the red cellophane creates a fairly realistic fire glow. Then I topped it off with this maggot-infested skull, and a few severed hands. But for some reason, no one wants to "give me a hand" when it comes to cooking even though I'm "head of the class." Hahahahahaa. Happy haunting!

The Skull Base:

The skull base is just one of those blown plastic skulls. I "corpsed" the skull by dipping cotton into latex (I hear carpet glue works well, too, but have not tried it) and layered it upon the skull. Finish off with some glow-in-the-dark maggots and fake blood (both available for purchase at QualityBargainz.com) and Viola! This is what I used for the corpsed skull base ...

Take and shred a cotton ball. Dunk the cotton into liquid latex (be careful of any known or potential latex allergies). Work the liquid latex into the cotton fiber, this will create a pasty like texture. Apply to plastic skull base and allow to dry and cure overnight. Twist the drenched cotton into strings and apply to create veins and tendons. Be creative and have fun. Don't worry about making any mistakes, you are creating a corpsed skull.

The Cannibal Grill:

Here is a pretty good photo of the finished project. Notice how well the blinking Christmas lights under the red cellophane and grill rocks looks. If you could see it flickering, you'd get the full affect. In a future post (just might wait till next Halloween to share this one ... in the mean time you can check what we've posted at BikersBasement), I'll post some instructions on how to make the corpsed hands from scratch ... get it, corpsed hands from *scratch*?

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