How to make Trick-or-Treat Kids

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Trick-or-Treat Kids
Decorate your garden, porch or indoors with these eye catching Trick-or-Treat Kids. Sure, you can go out and buy them, but making your own Trick-or-Treat kids is easy and a lot cheaper. And you can design your own and than make them. I have included easy to follow instructions below so you can design and make your own Trick-or-Treat Kids. They are reusable too.

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1. Frame is made with 2 x 2's. ° 24" for legs and back. ° 14" for chest. ° 6" x 12" plywood for the hip plate. Screw legs & back to hip plate. Drill 2 holes on top, put dowels in the holes		2. The body was made by wrapping cotton batting around it from the chest to the hips. You could use any old cloth for this. I used a staple gun to attach the batting to the body but you could use nails
3. Fill sneakers with plaster and stick legs into plaster. You can see the square hole in the plaster here where the leg is stuck. Once you stick the leg in the plaster do not remove it. I did it to show you how it looks.		4. If you don't use plaster, you could just nail the sneakers on from the bottom, but the weight of the plaster helps keep this decoration upright. PUT the slacks on BEFORE you stick on the sneakers.
5. Photo shows the ghost with batting on body, slacks & shoes. Everything was purchased from a yard sale for 50 cents. Note: For easiest assembly, remember to put slacks on your ghost before doing the shoes.		6. 8" Styrofoam ball from a craft store was used for head. Make 2 holes in the ball with a pencil. These holes will make it easier to slide the head down onto the dowels. I used 2 dowels, but found that using 1 dowel would suffice.
7. Use a piece of sheet for the ghost, cut it bigger than needed. Slip it over the head, then attach the sheet to the head by pressing 2 nails in through the sheet into Styrofoam head. This will prevent it from blowing away.		8. I cut the sheet so it was just the right length. When I had it looking the way I wanted I drew on the eyes with a magic marker.
9. The last step was to give our trick-or-treater ghost a bag for candy. The bag was stapled to the hip under the sheet so the bag would hang on the side. If you are using the ghost outside use a plastic bag instead of paper.		The ghost on the right was made the same way. I bet you could come up with your own ideas. If you make a garden kid send me a photo. I would love to see it. And may put it up on this page
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