Adam and Barbara Maitland Costumes from BeetleJuice!

For Halloween this year my boyfriend and I decided to go as the Maitlands from Beetle Juice. We are both huge fans of Halloween and Tim Burton and wanted to do a monster mask costume. These costumes are much easier than they look and there is plenty of room for variation to suit individual tastes. They were as much fun to make as they were to wear! We hope you enjoy them!

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Step 1: The Materials

For these masks you will need:

Thin cardboard
One roll of Masking tape
Wire hangers
An old helmet or a hat
Newspaper
Paper mache clay ingredients

Cheap toilet paper (measure the wet paper pulp, and use 1.24 cups – some rolls contain more paper than needed)
1 cup Joint compound from the hardware store (get “regular,” not “fast set” or “light”.)
3/4 cup Elmer’s Glue-all
1/2 cup White Flour
2 tablespoons Linseed Oil

*Or regular paper Mache
Black Nylon
Brown fur
Crayola Model Magic
Various colors of Acrylic paint and brushes
One rubber glove

These materials in total cost less than $50 to accumulate and are used for both of these masks.