Home & Family have the perfect feature for your front yard this Halloween. Make your own Haunted House complete with this crypt walk through!
You Will Need:
- 4 pieces of 4×8 2inch extruded polystyrone insulation boards
- Multi purpose jig saw
- Pencil/Pen
- 8 3inch door hinges w/ removal pins
- Screws
- 8 1×4 wood boards
- Heat gun
- Gray paint
- Black Paint
- Gorilla Glue
- Paint brushes
- Xacto Knife
How To:
- Cut all 4 of the 4×8 foam boards to 6 ½ ft height.
- Take 2 of the 4×8 foam insulation boards and trace the entrance patterns onto each board. Blue prints will be on website.
- Cut out entrance using multi-purpose jigsaw.
- Glue 1×4 boards along both sides of each entrance way using gorilla glue.
- Drill boards into place using 3 screws per board.
- For sidewalls, glue and screw 1×4 boards along each side. Make sure to leave an inverted space for the boards from the entrance way to fit in.
- Take an entrance way and sidewall and line up the edges.
- Screw hinges on each board. One towards the top and one towards the bottom.
- Match and screw in connecting hinge to join the entrance and sidewall together.
- Thread pin through matching hinges to connect walls.
- Repeat step until all four walls are connected.
How To: for stone look **DO IN A WELL VENTILATED AREA!!!**
- Draw out stone pattern.
- Take Xacto knife and cut along the stone lines you just drew out.
- Take a heat gun and go along the lines you just cut out.
- To add a distressed look, spray water on foam and go over with heat gun.
- Paint black in lines you cut out.
- Paint walls gray.
- Add moss, skeleton heads, and any other accessories you’d like to incorporate.
XOXO,
Paige
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