KUSA - David Caranci has a knack for taking simple things and making them Halloween creepy. He's a Disneyland decor designer who helps spook up Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. On 9NEWS at Noon he showed us how to make a Jack Skellington Halloween Tree and Shrunken Apple Heads.
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Jack Skellington Tree
All you need is a terra cotta watering plate. That will serve as your base. Paint it black. Then get a small strip of black felt and glue some wires to the bottom of it to give it a spidery shape. Glue that on top of your plate.
Next, get an artificial styrofoam craft pumpkin (white is great) and go online to find a template for Jack Skellington's face. Use a Sharpie to trace the face onto the pumpkin, and set that down on top of the plate.
Find a small branch and decorate that with miniature pumpkins and skeleton heads (the ones with wire wraps that you can find at a crafts store); add some hanging moss for effect. Plant the branch in in the pumpkin and you've got yourself a spooky Halloween tree.
Shrunken Apple Heads
This is an oldie but goodie from Disney's Halloween decor book. Take a basic apple, peel away all the skin, then hollow out some eyes, a nose and a mouth. When that's done, stick the apple down in a bowl of lemon juice with some salt. Leave it in for about five minutes. When you take it out and set it on a tray. Nature does the rest in just a couple of weeks as the heads dry into gruesome faces.
Use them as decoration, or as party favors, stuffed into jars of Halloween candy.
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