Building a Witch

Step 8 Body Building...

Build the witch's body. For the first witch I built, I had some scrap wood that I salvaged from an old futon frame. Using these wood scraps, I screwed them together to make a body about five and a half feet tall. I then screwed the PVC pipe neck to the body frame, and then covered the shoulders with some chicken wire to give some shape. In one of the arms on the frame, I attached a large stick that fell off of a tree in my yard. I inserted this in a bucket that spewed fog from my fog machine. The frame and setup could be done all different ways. Like I said, I used scrap wood, so use whatever you could find to build the body. Use cardboard boxes if need be. If you have a palm tree in your yard, see my Instructable on building a monster armature out of palm tree branches. I made my second witch using this method.

I then dressed up the witch with a black tablecloth and safety pins, and the witch was good to go for Halloween.

The witch got some good reactions from the trick or treaters...

You can see the witch in video form here: