• Home
  • Suggest A Craft
  • DIY Newsletter

Craft Gossip

The largest independent craft review site since 2007

  • About CraftGossip
  • Our Network
    • Bath & Body Crafts
    • Candle Making Ideas
    • Crochet Ideas
    • Cross Stitch
    • Edible Crafts
    • Felting Patterns
    • Glass Art
    • Home & Garden Ideas
    • Indie Crafts
    • Jewelry Making
    • Kids Crafts
    • Knitting Patterns
    • Lesson Plans
    • Needlework
    • Party Ideas
    • Polymer Clay
    • Quilting Ideas
    • Recycled Crafts
    • Scrapbooking
    • Sewing Patterns
    • Card Making
    • DIY Weddings
    • Not Craft Ideas
  • Giveaways
  • Roundups
  • Store
  • Search

DIY Packing Tape Halloween Ghosts

September 19, 2018 by Shellie Wilson

These Halloween DIY Projects show you how to make your own Halloween ghosts using packing tape or clear scotch tape. All of these Ghosts are fun to make and even spookier to decorate your Halloween party with. There are lots of step by step duct tape ghost tutorials online but we decided some of these Halloween tutorials were the best the internet has to offer up for Halloween.

You can use these Halloween ghosts as light up yard displays or set them out in the dark of night to resemble a transparent body walking across your front yard.

These ghosts are also perfect for hanging inside the house as they are lightweight and can be strung up with minimal effort. Try using fans or ceiling fans to make them move around the ceiling.

My favorite has to be the hand and gun coming out of the TV, of course, I would have to create a poltergeist coming out of the TV to scare everyone.

 

Once you have practiced making or casting these ghosts yourself you can try some more tricky positions for your DIY prop making. There are lots of different examples online of these ghosts to give you inspiration.

You can use shrink wrap, cling wrap or trash bags as the base which is much more cost-effective than using pure tape. You do need patience for this tutorial as well as a willing victim, I mean model. It takes around 3-4 rolls of tape to make one mannequin/ghost.  Make sure your model goes to the toilet first (lesson learned the hard way).

 

Easy Packing tape Ghost

Ghostly Hands Tutorial

DIY Packing tape ghosts

TV ghost ideas – no tutorial on this one.

Halloween sitting ghost child tutorial

Packing tape and Trash bag Ghost tutorial

Halloween Packing tape casting tutorial

 

 

 

Read These Next

  • 12 Handmade Cards with Dark Backgrounds Using Stamps…
  • 12 Handmade Halloween Cards featuring Ghosts
«
»

Have you read?

Bookmark Cross Stitch Patterns

It seems like there’s no end to the available options when it comes to cross stitch bookmarks, which is a good thing because they’re perennially popular to stitch as well. This time I thought I’d share some colorful cross stitch bookmarks to get you ready for the new school year or to make meeting your reading goals a little more fun. 

I love these retro floral designs from The Stitch Patterns. This set of four patterns is rated as very easy, and each bookmark measures 2.5 by 6 inches (or 6.35 by 15.25 cm) on 14 count fabric. 

These cute ones that look like mosaic tile would also be fun to stitch. This set includes five designs from EmbroSTyle Designs, and they call them folk art but they mostly look like old mosaics to me. Either way, the bookmarks are 25 by 101 stitches, and to stitch the full set uses 12 colors. 

If you’re looking for more of a challenge, you can stitch up a work of art with this set of 16 bookmarks designed to look like famous paintings. Stitch some sunflowers or a great wave or a starry night. Most of these are between 14 and 20 colors (the great wave is only 8) and the bookmarks are totally covered with stitching at a count of 35 by 100 stitches. Grab this set from Sunset and Sea Design.

Or how about some bookmarks inspired by books (or by movies inspired by books)? This set of Lord of the Rings bookmarks includes four landmarks from the books/movies. Each one is 35 by 115 stitches and uses between 8 and 17 colors. You can find them at byCountryMagicStitch.

These don’t quite all fit the description of being colorful bookmarks to cross stitch, but a few of them do, and speaking of book-themed bookmarks I had to share this set from Mama Geek inspired by Heartstopper. There are seven designs in all that should be quite familiar to readers (or viewers of the series). 

25 Christmas Bookmark Cross-stitch Patterns [Cross-Stitch]

25 Floral Bookmark Cross Stitch Patterns

RSS More Articles

  • Bookmark Cross Stitch Patterns
  • FREE Summer Vacation Die Cut Files to Download
  • Knit a Linen Stitch Hot Pad
  • Agnes Sweater Vest PDF Crochet
  • Coldplay Caught on Camera?! This Free Coloring Page Will Leave You in Stitches!
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo for Kids
  • Primrose and Bee Punch Needle Pattern from DMC
  • Striped Ripple Afghan- Free Crochet Pattern
  • Knitting Pattern Review: Sabai Top by PaulaStrickt
  • Book Review – Capture Your Own Life with Collage Quilting

Copyright © 2025 · CraftGossip | Start Here | Contact Us | Link to Us | Your Editors | Privacy and affiliate policy