IT’S NOT TOO LATE: Two Easy Beetle Juice Snake Props to Make Before Halloween

The Second Beetle Juice Snake prop made.

The Beetle Juice Snake character (from the original movie), has always been one of my favorites, but I didn’t know if I had enough time to build one. With starting my prop creations in Sept., I was surprised I finished as many as I did, let alone two more. With less than three weeks before Halloween, this was how we accomplished making TWO different types of the Beetle Juice Snake props. The first only takes approx. an hour to make, and the second could take 3-4 days, if you can work on it every night. So there is still time to make one before Halloween!

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How to Make the Shrunken-Head Hunter from the Movie Beetle Juice

How to make your own bob shrunken head man from waiting room in Beetle Juice movie

Before taking my family to Beetle Juice, the Musical, I wasn’t sure what our yard haunt would be this year. But after seeing the musical and remembering how much we loved the original movie, there was no question about it.

I’ve always taken certain scenes and characters from movies/shows and tried to replicate them in my own creative way. Here’s my version of the hunter, the shrunken-head man in the waiting room from the original version of Beetle Juice, and a quick tutorial of how I made him. I belong to several Halloween groups, and some call this character Bob, where others insist on his name Harry the Hunter. Creating their heads are basically the same, except for one being brown, the other blue, with little to no hair.

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How to Make Your Beetle Juice Ghosts Look More Than Just Like Hanging Sheets

An easy prop to add to anyone’s yard haunt – ghosts! But don’t forget to give them some bulk.

Now that many of us are putting up our Halloween props, I’m sure some of y’all are scratching your heads – like I did – on how to get our ghosts to actually look more ghost-like and not like a flat hanging sheet.

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How to Make Beetle Juice’s Sandworm Body Sections

building a sandworm from Beetle Juice

Both Sandworm bodies were made differently.

When I first mulled around the idea of making a Sandworm from the Beetle Juice movie, I knew how I was going to make the double-headed section, but how I was going to achieve his body sections, was another story.

I looked at other ideas – some more pricier than others – but just didn’t feel it. My creations come from my intuition/forces within, rather than any art class. I made two sections that jumped out of the ground two different ways, because the first one I created wasn’t exactly making me happy. Here’s how I made them: Continue reading

How to Make a Surprisingly Easy Sandworm Head from the Movie Beetle Juice with Many Items You Already Have at Home

DIY Making a Sandworm

The head part of the Sandworm.

This Sandworm prop is fairly easy to make, although there are a lot of steps in the process. Here’s how I made my version of Beetle Juice’s Sandworm:

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