DIY Packing Tape Halloween Ghosts

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).

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TV ghost ideas – no tutorial on this one.

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One of the fun things about knitters is that we will use a holiday theme on any kind of project. From Easter bunny socks to Christmas sweaters, there’s no combination of holiday motif and knitwear genre we won’t combine.

Case in point: Halloween cowls.

This fun cowl from Sweet Vireo Designs features large carved pumpkins and little cats and skulls. It uses two colors of DK weight yarn and I love the multicolored yarn for the background color on this one. And the braids! So cute.

Spooky Season by Jocelyn Tunney (also on Ravelry) uses fingering weight yarn in two colors to make a design with crescent moons and eyes. There are two circumferences and two heights available so you can make it a neck hugger or a slightly bigger project if you like.

Make more moons with the Broom Riding Cowl from Vanessa Ewing Knits. This two color pattern looks extra fun with a multicolored yarn for the colorwork, but you can use a solid as well. It calls for DK weight yarn but there is also a fingering weight version if you have some yarn in your stash you want to use.

Jinx Made has another fun Halloween cowl, this time covered in skulls. South Philly Skulls uses DK weight yarn and comes in two lengths, and there’s also a matching hat pattern, both of which can be found on Ravelry.

The Ghost Stories cowl from Melissa Knit Wear is a two-color cowl with ghosts of different sizes on the body. It uses DK weight yarn, and average sized skeins will allow you to get two cowls out of two skeins. It also calls for stitch markers to help you keep your place in the chart.

Or stitch up a cowl with a giant bat on it. The Nightling Cowl from Jen Immer uses DK weight yarn in two colors and has moons and a large bat on it. This pattern can be found on Ravelry.

How about spooky trees? The Weirwood Cowl from Andrea Krüß-Anders is inspired by the weirwood trees in the Game of Thrones books, and is worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn. You can find this free pattern on Ravelry.

If a bandana cowl is more your thing, try Cowloween from Tellybean Knits (on Ravelry). This colorful design is worked from the top down and features pumpkins, ghosts and candy colored stripes, and is worked in a light fingering weight yarn. There are kid and adult sizes available.

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