Halloween Life-Size Jack Skellington

Our favorite Halloween decoration we've made is this life-size Jack Skellington from Disney & Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.  My husband cut PVC pipes to make his skinny frame and I found fabric to sew for his suit and face. I cut black felt for his face and used foam paper and white-out to make the bat tie, then we added gloves for his hands.  To make it even spookier, we sat him at our Player Piano and turned on the Halloween Music so it looks like Jack is reallly playing the piano. We set him in our big picture window so the kids and parents can see him as they walk up the porch to Trick-or-treat. The little kids are so amazed that Jack is playing the piano all by himself.

   
Check out these cute cupcakes on Disney's Family.com


From Disney.com

Last year they came out with a Christmas book about the movie story. The Nightmare Before Christmas. In case your not familiar with the story it is about Jack Skellington who lives in Halloween land, but he finds out about Santa Claus and wants to take his place and leave spooky gifts for children because he wants to bring them Halloween cheer but things don't work out very well. Our kids, ages 7 & 5, love it but younger kids might be scared so use your judgement before introducing it to them.

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