I saw this adorable idea of using styrofoam balls on stake with cheesecloth covered in fabric stiffener! How cute and cheap!
1. Place a Styrofoam ball on the top of the stake. 2. You can either use Aleene's Fabric Stiffener and Draping Liquid or Stiffy Fabric Stiffener to form your ghosts (see directions below) or use cheesecloth alone. If you are not stiffening the fabric just attach it to the Styrofoam ball with greening pins. To make a circle of ghosts tie each of the ghosts together by using the bottom corner of the cheese cloth.
Variation: You can use black felt to make eyes and a mouth and attach them to the ball with Velcro sticky back coins .
If you want to use Aleene's Fabric Stiffener and Draping Liquid on your ghosts :
1. Wear gloves to keep hands clean. Use a bowl or bag large enough for your fabric and pour enough liquid into the bowl to cover fabric.2. Work liquid into fabric until saturated.3. Holding fabric over bowl, squeeze out excess liquid.4. Cover the Styrofoam ball with protective wrap then drape your saturated fabric over the styrofoam ball (attached to the stake).5. While shaping over the form, continue removing excess stiffener.6.Flare out the lower edges of the gauze and let dry overnight.7. Use a damp cloth for easy cleanup.
Once they've dried, carefully lift the ghosts from the stake. They should stand freely on a flat surface or you can hang them with fish line.
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