Everyone loves spiders on Halloween, and what is a good spider scene with out cocooned spider victim or two. This how-to will show you how to easily and effectively make a convincing cocooned spider victim in under an hour, for your Halloween Display.
You will need
- PVC
- Duct Tape
- Spray Adhesive
- Spider Webbing
- Saran Wrap
- Fake Eyeballs
- Wire
- A skull either plastic or foam
- Pipe insulation
- Newspaper
- Plastic Bags
- Spray Paint
- Liquid Latex
Step 1: Bend Some PVC (I used a heat gun, Beware this makes dangerous fumes). Cut a piece for the shoulders and attach it where you want the shoulders, and attach the skull. Drill a hole in the opposite end of the long piece of PVC and hang the body upside down. The head should now be near the floor.
Step 2: Now cut some PVC for the arms and attach them to the shoulders using wire or tape. They should hang down below the head. Hot glue the eyeballs in the eye sockets.
Step 3: Put some newspaper in some plastic grocery bags and start taping it to the PVC to build up bulk in a convincing body form. Use pipe insulation to bulk out the legs.
Step 4: Wrap the entire body tightly in Saran Wrap this will keep it from falling apart, and make a nice even surface for the next step
Step 5: Get your webbing out, and start wrapping the body with it. Spray the webbing with adhesive to help it stick together. You don’t want webbing coming off as you move the piece around.
Step 6: Start spray painting the recesses black, I choose brown and yellow blotches for the body.
Step 7: Start painting the webbing with liquid latex, This will highlight the webbing and really make the piece shine.
Finished
Tips: I like to hook my spider victims up to a mirror ball motor on Halloween night, for best effect use a wire on the top and on the bottom use fishing line to an anchor on the ground with 2 swivels inline. This way if it is windy you can have webbing around them and they wont blow around and get tangled up and stall your motor out.
To really up the ante get yourself a web shooter, I recommend one from Minions Web, I have a review up over at Haunt Toys, check it out.
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Thanks for this great sfx. I am working on a design for my high school classroom for 2011… a spider's lair. I will need plenty of corpses and webbing to pull this off.
I would also like to incorporate a "trap door" entryway to get into the classroom – no ideas yet on how to pull that off. Plus, I would love to have a spider drop from a hole in the ceiling tiles… with a remote control if not too complicated. Any ideas or links that anyone knows of that could help me out.
I have tried 3 times to make mine look as good as yours. You did a great job!
Thank you for this tutorial. I found it through Google. I am dressing up as a cocooned spider victim this year so I will be able to adapt some of your techniques to my costume. I am borrowing a giant spider from a friend too. I am determined to win the costume contest at work again. I have not quite figured out two dilemma's yet. 1 how do I work in it and 2 how in the world will I go to the bathroom. I think maybe modify my pencil skirt with a zipper hidden in the webbing and for my arms maybe wrap arms individually then also make a sort of shawl of webs to go over both arms for during contest judging and picture time.
Thanks for the inspiration. I have some pool noodles that will make great legs.
This is AWESOME!!!! You just helped me “one-up” my neighbors!!!…and that’s what Halloween is all about, right? Thanks!!!!!
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wow – how cool is that – I really wish I had more room to decorate – living in a town house does not give me a lot of decorating room!
hope your post pics of your house on halloween nite
Super Creepy!
Wow, that is so cool!
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