A few years ago I found the directions online on how to make this Mummy. The trick is suckering someone into letting you wrap them with tape. Patrick allowed me to do this to him but said he would never do it again! I guess it is a tight squeeze and kinda hard to cut around the joints...I may have nicked him a little bit cutting him apart!:-) But I now have his 13 year old body forever!LOL
THE MUMMY
You will need some old clothes that you can cutTHE MUMMY
Lots of masking tape
Styrofoam Head http://www.kc-store-fixtures.com/displays-styrofoam_heads.php
Gauze or ripped up white sheet
Brown, Black or Gray Spray Paint
Tea or coffee (optional)
Old Socks
Old Gloves
Note: You don't have to have the socks and gloves but it is much easier to stuff them than to try to tape around fingers and feet!
Soak your gauze or sheets in tea bags or old coffee to give it that "century old look".
Dig out the eyes and mouth on your Styrofoam head...you can paint it with regular paint if you want it to have a melted spooky look or buy "model car spray paint" at the craft store if you don't want it to melt it. I used regular paint because I think it looked scarier with it melted looking.
Get your sucker, I mean "model" to put on an old pair of clothes. Start taping all around their body...arms, legs, torso...everything but head, hands and feet. Once you have them all taped up, cut a slit down the back, back of arms and back of legs. Cut the clothes with the tape. The clothes will stay with the tape in the mold. After you get the mold off, stuff it with newspaper or grocery bags to give it a life-like shape. Tape the Styrofoam head to the body. Stuff your gloves and feet and tape around them before taping them to the body.
I painted my body Brown but you could use whatever color you wanted to. After it dries just wrap the gauze around the body to look like a Mummy.
He looks like a real person sitting at my dining room table.
The Glitter Bones recipe came from the Martha Stewart web site. It is a very easy craft.
GLITTER BONES
Bag of Bones
Elmer's Glue or Decoupage Glue
Very Fine Glitter and Regular Glitter
Coat the bones with glue and sprinkle the fine glitter first then the regular glitter all over every nook and cranny. Place on a cake plate or serving platter...dig in!
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