Building Halloween Tombstones

Here's how you can build a realistic-looking tombstone for Halloween using cheap styrofoam you can get at Home Depot (pink foam) or Lowe's (blue foam). This is a companion video (prequel actually) of my prior video: Painting Halloween Tombstones.

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Howto & Style

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• Halloween prop
• tombstone
• how-to
• gravestone
• cemetery
• graveyard
• Terra
• Halloween
• prop

[RedDragon0719]

These look amazing but its alot of work for some kid to come vy and steal it

[Scaryladyvideos]

@RedDragon0719 That's true. What helps is the rebar and the plywood base holes (for ground stakes) make it very resistant to someone trying to do a grab and go. They'd have to work hard and take time to steal it. But, if they do - can always make more :)

[googooberries]

this is AMAZING!!! too advanced for me mostly bc i dont have the space or tools but this is very very nice!!

[Scaryladyvideos]

@googooberries Thank you. Hopefully soon you can give it a try.

[living4serenity]

Hey Terra, One other question. After using the surform shaver did you sand it with sand paper also? Mine are very rough still. Or does the Drylok cover it? I'd really like to not have to sand them (I have 6 started and several other projects as well) because time is ticking here! Thanks!

[Scaryladyvideos]

@living4serenity I never have until the last tombstone (Blackbeard). I like the rough edges that the shaver gives you. Drylok tones that roughness down failry well and in the end looks like stone to me. If you want or need something smoother you can sand it down a bit. I did for the Blackbeard stone becuase I wanted it to be smooth like marble.

[blbarchi]

@Scaryladyvideos

Tara, Here is my Tombstone video. More to come!

[Scaryladyvideos]

@blbarchi Oh good it's helping you. The idea came from desperation. The winds here in Kansas are epic in the fall.

[blbarchi]

*your*

[blbarchi]

You have the best idea going on all of you tube, as far as anchoring the tombstone with the pipes is concerned. I just completed a tombstone using our techniques and I will have to post a link.