No Halloween Mantel is Complete without a DIY Head in a Jar

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Halloween is right around the corner and what better way to get ready for it than to pickle a head in a jar?! No, not a real head - a super cool, DIY’d “photo-head.”

All you need are three printed photos, some packing tape and a jar. It doesn’t get any easier than that!

Guests will be completely spooked when they see dear old Auntie Mable’s head perched above the fireplace - and so will Auntie Mable!

Materials:

  • 3 full-page printed pictures of someone’s face: 1 left profile, 1 right profile, and one front and center

  • Mason jar, roughly 12” tall

  • Scissors

  • Packaging tape

  • Water

  • Yellow, orange and green food coloring

  • Spoon/Stirrer

Instructions:

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1. Take three photos of a person’s head (front and both profiles) and make color prints.

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2. Cut the features (nose, mouth, eyes) off of the left and right profiles you’ve printed.

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3. Lay them on the sides of your center shot so that the hair-line and chin line up.

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4. Cover the whole composition with packaging tape, making sure that the edges overlap. Turn the paper over, and repeat.

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5. Cut out the face under the chin, along the jaw, to the back of the head, over the top of the head, all the way around, creating a lumpy oval shape.

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6. Use packaging tape to tape the edges of your cut-out.

7. Fill your mason jar with water.

8. Using your food coloring, add 2 drops of yellow, 2 drops of orange and 4 drops of green and stir with a spoon.

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9. Curling the edges of your face, insert it into the water.

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Now that’s a creepy head in a jar!

(No Aunties or Uncles were harmed in the making of this craft!)

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