How to make a skeleton, DIY homemade skeleton and corpse, Halloween Prop

How to make a DIY homemade skeleton – Part 1.

For this year’s haunted forest, I wanted to make a realistic looking corpse, and as usual, I am on a shoestring budget. Instead of buying a $100 skeleton, I thought I would build it from scratch using odds and ends of parts I had laying around the house.

This did take a fair amount of time, so if you have more money than time, you may want to skip this step and just buy a plastic skeleton.

This is a list of materials I used:
Bones – 34” PVC pipe
Joints – coat hanger wire
Fingers, toes, ligaments – neoprene hose & electrical wire
Ribcage – Electrical romex, coat hangar wire, newspapers
Elbows, knees & shoulder bones – wadded up aluminum foil
Duct tape, duct tape and more duct tape

Did you make one like this? What worked, what didn’t? Leave a comment, I would love to hear about your creepy creation.

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