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Billy Bear's
Make a Friendly Ghost
Materials Needed
White Cloth (about 1/2 yard)
Black Felt
Balloon
Empty Oatmeal Container
Masking Tape
Fabric Stiffener
Old Bowl
Old Spoon
Piece of Cardboard
Scissors
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Take your white material (thin white cotton works
good)... lay the cloth on a large sized table. Cut off the edges to
create a circle (as shown by the green areas in our sample). Don't worry
about making a perfect circle, it isn't neccesary to be an exact circle
in shape. The size of the circle depends on the size ghost you are
wanting to make.
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Blow up a balloon. Place the open end of the oatmeal
container up. The balloon should set good on the container. (For a
smaller sized ghost, smaller containers can be use. Cans can even be
used, but you have to make sure that there are no sharp edges... this
may cause the balloon to pop.
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Use the masking tape to hold the ballon in place. Many
pieces may be needed. Take the piece of cardboard (We use cardboard from
an old box) and tape a piece of waxed paper onto the cardboard. Set the
container onto a piece of cardboard covered with waxed paper, and tape
this down so everything is nice and secured. |
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Pour some of the fabric stiffner into the bowl (make
sure you read the directions). Place the circle cloth into the bowl, and
pour more fabric stiffner onto the cloth. Use an old spoon or use your
hand to mix the fabric stiffner and cloth together (some that use their
hands for mixing like to put on rubber gloves). Make sure that the
fabric stiffner is soaked into the cloth. Then as you take the cloth out
of the bowl, ring out the excess fabric stiffner. The excess can be
poured back into the fabric stiffner's container to be used again.
NOTE: I've heard that they now make glow in the dark fabric
stiffner, but I have not found any in the area I live. |
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Open the cloth. Find the middle of the circle, and place
this on the top of the balloon. Hold the center with one hand, while you
lay the cloth around your base (the ballon and container). Smooth the
fabric using your hands, and or your spoon. You can fold the edges of
the cloth under so the tattered edge doesn't show. Once you like the way
it looks, set this in an area to dry. We usually allow our ghost to dry
over night. |
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Take the piece of felt and cut out two nice sized ghost
eyes. We show them here as ovals... but circle eyes are nice too.
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Once the ghost's body is dry, you can remove him from
the base (ballon set up). He should be good and dry so he can stand
without any support. Next put a dab of fabric stiffner (or white glue)
onto the back of the eye, and put that on the ghost's head. You can also
add ribbon... for a nice bow... or ribbon curls for hair. |
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