Make a Skeleton for Halloween Decoration

In this instructable, I will try and show you how I made these Skeleton's for Halloween decoration. I made these last year to go with my Pallet Coffin. I made the first one out of pallet boards, then made 3 more, using some scrap 3/8” plywood, they worked better.

This is a real simple project to make, hope this gives you a new idea.

I have included the SVG file that I used, if you don't have a program to open it. Download the Free program Inscape, that is what I used to make this.

If you have a hard time following my directions, you might want to check out the video instead.

Pallet boards or plywood

Jigsaw or Scrollsaw

Drill and some drill bits

Scrollsaw blade

Printer to print out the pattern

Long Gutter nails

9/16" Staples

Hammer

White SprayPaint

Pencil or Marker

Print out or draw yourself a pattern. Then I use some spray adhesive to attach the pattern to wood. At first I used some old pallet boards, but then used some scrap 3/8" plywood. The plywood done better for this, if I had glued up the pallet boards, they might have done better.

After making the first one, I used it as a pattern and traced it onto the plywood.

I used a Jigsaw with a scrollsaw blade to cut the pattern out of the plywood. The first one was made out of pallet wood and I used a Bandsaw and Jigsaw on it.

Note you will have to drill some holes to cut some areas with the Jigsaw.

Now that you have your parts cut out, we need to paint them, I used White spray paint, but you could use other colors. I would recommend using some kind of primer on the plywood boards first.

I had some Gutter nails laying around, they are about 7" long. Bought some 9/16" staples and attached them to the back like you see in the pictures.

Now they are ready to be installed into the ground. Just push or hammer the nails into to ground. I put them close to my Pallet Coffin.

Thanks for checking out my Instructable. Happy Halloween!!