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The key to this killer costume is a wooden axe or knife handle. You can also use the
plastic prop kind, or have someone at the local hardware store saw off a hammer handle (they're
cheaper) for you.
- Whip up some fake blood (see our recipe) and break out an old button down shirt.
- Decide if you want the handle to stick out of the middle of your chest or back. If you choose
the front, you can button the shirt around the handle. If you become a backstabbee, you'll have to
make a hole in the shirt. Douse the area you choose on the shirt with the fake blood. Use the
remaining blood to splatter the rest of your clothes. You might want to roll around in the dirt a
little, too, so you get that 'fresh out of the grave' feeling.
- Here's how you attach the handle: Make 2 horizontal slits on either side of the bottom of a
dixie cup. Run a strip of wide bandaging tape through them so that it lays across the inside bottom
of the cup. Leave enough tape on either side to wrap around your torso. Stick the top of the handle
(where the weapon used to be) in the cup and secure it with bunched up tape. You could also staple
the outside bottom of the cupto the top of the handle which touches the inside bottom of the cup.
Wear a t-shirt and have someone wrap the tape securely around your chest and back so that the cup
and handle stick straight out on the side you chose.
- Put your disgusting bloody and dirty clothes on and pull the handle either through the space
between two front buttons or the hole you made in the back.
- Powder your face and hair (to make you look dead and ghostly) and draw lines of fake blood
from the corner of your eyes dripping down but don't get it in your eyes.
Now you're ready to haunt the night!
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