DIY Halloween Tombstones 💀 Foam and Wood Realistic Tombstone Decorations
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- Making a scary tombstone, headstone, or realistic graveyard setup. Here's a ton of DIY foam and wood Halloween tombstones ideas for your haunt. If your making graveyard decorations for Halloween this how to make your own Halloween tombstones tutorial will show you some of the best ways. We share how to upgrade cheap dollar store graveyard tombstone decorations in several easy ways anyone can do. We also build the best Halloween tombstones for windy weather and sturdy enough for people to lean over and kick around. Whether you want a simple store bought Halloween decoration makeover or a more professional DIY Halloween props for your home haunt or yard display this is everything you need to know. Learn all there is about making Halloween tombstones in this ultimate Halloween graveyard tombstone tutorial. We make DIY Halloween tombstones with plywood, Styrofoam, wood, foam, cover them with concrete mortar, paint and drywall compound. We show you how to not only make DIY Halloween tombstones sayings and epitaphs but how to carve and cut them out with routers and Dremel tools. We show all our tools, tips, tricks, and hard coating foam techniques as well as how we paint tombstones and headstone letters. Don't just settle for store bought or Spirit Halloween Halloween props and decorations. Customize and add things to turn them into a scary movie quality prop. Whether you want to upcycle material do a store bought make over or fabricate a new prop you are guaranteed to learn how to and be inspired to make all kinds of Halloween tombstones.
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
0:00 How to make realistic graveyard tombstones
0:18 Make cheap dollar store tombstones thicker
0:35 Store bought tombstone makeover
1:10 Adding PVC to stand up your tombstone
1:53 Gluing foam together with spay foam
2:50 Make a wood base for a tombstone
3:07 Carve a larger foam base for the tombstone
4:39 Adding bolts to breakdown large tombstones
5:23 Open backside for adding weight or lights
5:45 Adding thicker foam and removing lettering
7:00 Making busted up tombstone prop
7:32 Gluing wood to foam for extra weight
8:10 Using solar light posts for tombstone stand
8:43 Adding decorative items to the tombstones
9:04 Make foam tombstones heavy
9:32 Shaping the tombstone edges
10:25 Hard coating foam and filling cracks
10:58 How to mix Flexbond mortar
12:12 Applying foam hard coat
14:26 Using joint compound for texture
15:06 How to paint Halloween tombstones
18:38 Adding faux moss to you realistic headstones
20:43 Our first Halloween tombstone decorations
21:16 Making a large wood graveyard tombstone
22:15 Types of router bits used
22:58 Making a large plywood tombstone
23:50 Removable panels for sand bag weight
24:17 Getting the most out of our plywood
25:00 Created a crooked tombstone
25:16 Adding cement, paint, and fake vines
27:26 Adding letters and carving epitaphs
27:54 Plexi-glass trick with router and Dremel
28:41 Hard coating foam with epoxy resin
29:28 Wind proofing with plywood and rebar
30:19 Realistic tombstone examples
31:49 Using Drylok to protect tombstones
32:17 Using Styrofoam with rigid pink foam
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I am so jealous when I see couples working together to build cool Halloween props and decorations.
I love Halloween. But my husband couldn't care less........
Thank you so much for sharing your creative ideas!
Great video. Thanks for posting.
Love what you guys are doing. I have been wanting to build a haunted cemetery for a long time now. I thought I was going to be able to do it one time when I lived just up the road from you guys in Victorville CA. But that was a long time ago and my work moved me AGAIN! Sigh, one day I hope I can do it. Thanks again for posting your videos. At least I can live vicariously through you guys!
Great video!
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Funny seeing Van Oaks in this video. So cool that you guys live close!
We have known Derek for many years, if you think that's funny check out this old footage around the 9 min. in when VanOaks was sporting some Hollywood Haunter columns 😉 th-cam.com/video/LPpPpgm-KLQ/w-d-xo.html
Myra mains. Well that’s cut and dry. I like it. Just commenting to comment so the content keeps contenting
Ya we've made a a lot of the cheesy fun ones thanks for leaving us a comment.
Great to have this all compiled in one location!
I always loved ur tombstone videos. So nice to have em all together in one director's cut. I love that your doing this with your old videos. Would love to see more videos like this.
So fun and Hey Van Oaks!! I watch them too! I really enjoy all you creative makers!!
Some how that guy has made it into several of our videos over the past 10 years or so 🤣
I like the content but the thing that stool out out the most was the weird camera stabilization at 26:20. For us Northerners, waterproofing is imperative because the freeze-thaw cycles will rip some materials apart.
Damn, I really gotta step up my foam tombstone game :(
Thank you so much for sharing this. Love all your videos. This makes all the difference for our family haunted yard next week. You guys are totally awesome!
Now that you guys are done with this Big project I can't wait to see what's next.
These look great guys! love em!
so many sweet techniques!
Thanks Allen we appreciate it.
Pretty cool and great tips and directions 💀🎃💀
Just when I thought I would be done with my tombstones I see more ideas. Thanks... I think. ;-)
Great tips on how to secure “tombstones” to the ground. It gets to be costly supplying the neighborhood with my tombstones after a “wind storm” every year.
Nice, to see these collection… put me backt years ago, wen I start to fallowing you guys…
Its kind of nice to put some of this stuff together in an organized way. That way they don't have to sit through hours of Jeana talking so much 🤣
Amazing as always! thanks for the info
You guys ROCK!
I love having all of these ideas in 1 video! My goal this year is to build more tombstones for next year, so this is great timing, too!
We are so glad!
Regarding the solar light stakes, you can buy replacement stakes and pole extensions without buying the solar light. The extensions are long, but can be cut to fit your prop.
Thanks for letting us know
For my headstones on the back I use the yellow tent Stakes from Walmart and gorilla glue they hold pretty good
Hey that's great thanks for another idea Josh 👍👊😁
Wow, you both are so creative, love your work those tombstones are amazing . I’m really looking forward to Halloween this year. Thank you so much for sharing from Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇸 🎃💀🧟♀️☠️🧙♀️🤡🎃
Thank you Susie we appreciate that very much. Hope you have a wonderful Halloween season.
I love your video, but it has come to my attention that your wife is definitely the brains of the outfit LOL
10:59 Always awesome tips!
Sometimes they want you to buy a small pallet of a few diffrent damaged bags of misc. items now but it can still be worth it.
Those tombstones are made out of expanded polystyrene foam btw. What are you using to seal them? They're uv sensitive and will break down under sunlight in a couple months.
We just use paint, cement mortar, or epoxy resins and they have hung in there pretty well over the years.
Wow. Blast from the past! Lol! I remember when you did these videos 😂 also, plywood is double the price now haha. I'm so mad about it. Thankfully my local lumberyard gives me a business discount, but it's still way more expensive than it was 1.5-2 years ago 😭
Hey that's a nice hook up don't want to lose that friend. Its also getting a little harder to come across those sweet free wood finds we used to see. Guess we should all start making our props from amazon boxes now there's plenty of those around. Thanks for chiming in.
Was that a baby Harrison? Awe….
first !
How do you add the plexiglass to the dremel?
Just found you recently. What neighborhood or group should I look for to come down and see all these great houses you tour in other videos?
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Thanks so much you guys for making these videos, I love your channel for inspiration. 🎃 Question : Securing Styrofoam Tombstones in an artificial lawn (Because of California's drought)... I'm worried about stabbing in rebar or spikes into the lawn because I'll be disturbing the weed block and I don't want weeds coming through later. The lawn is at a slight but noticeable angle so I think if I had sufficient weight it would probably not tip over, we do get occasional wind at my location... I picked up some ideas from the video: wood bases, idea of putting rocks inside of them... Any other ideas for this particular situation? and... Happy Halloween🎃👻💀🦇
Ya I wouldnt want to go pounding rebar through my nice turf either. Some kind of base to weigh down would work well for that I'd think. I'll try think more on that one. Thanks Ray we appreciate the input.
I want to make a frame that I can add different fabric facades to, depending on what I need it for. I want to use fabric (canvas) for easy storage. I was wondering how flexible is the flex bond thinset is for the stone looking facade I want to make?
I'd bet you would get some cracking on a material like that but I'm sure you could get it to stick ok especially with paint on top of it.