Halloween tree DIY made from random materials around my yard

Building a home made creepy old tree for your haunted Halloween decorations. I built all my props with materials around the yard and great stuff expandable foam. Base of the tree is a Bigfoot footing for a deck. 12" corrugated Pipe section , metal wire (heavy gauge" bed sheet , great stuff foam insulation. Spray paint or regular house paint. I've never pinned before these decorations so I'm learning as I go. Any help or suggestions, please feel free to comment. Thanks. M.

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Mike Letendre

The Words

Funniest gravestones world wide

I'm sure..there are a lot of nexts for all our dirty,free thinking minds and our accts....lol

a tree that has been made to look like it is being used as a sculpture

Haunted Halloween Decorations

Finished product minus the red light installed inside it. Just a shop light w a red bulb.

This is the tree completed without the face

an artistic sculpture is being made in a workshop with many tools and materials around it

Another angle of the tree with the branches and a darker coat of paint applied ... It's my first attempt at building a tree for Halloween. Let me know what you guys think !

a tree that has been cut down and is in the process of being worked on

Here is a sneak peak of the spray foam sprayed with a dark brown paint. I've since sprayed it with gray and some black paint. I'll be adding brown on top of it and will be adding moss around the base and areas of the tree.

a dog standing next to a fake tree in a room filled with tools and other items

Spray Foam Tree Diy

Spray Foam Tree

Insulation Foam Crafts

Paper Mache Tree

Diy Paper Mache

Foam Diy

Halloween Diy Outdoor

Expanding Foam

Another angle of the spray foam insulation on the frame and bed sheet. It's looking pretty good !

Foam Halloween Props

Expanding Foam Insulation

Fairy Room

3d Cnc

You can see here I've attached the bed sheet to the framework and have begun to spray expanding foam insulation in vertical lines to make the appearance of bark.

the inside of a storage room with many items

Wire Frame

The Wire

Halloween Haunt

I wasn't real careful when I shaped the wire frame of the branches. I wanted some distortion and odd bends. I tapered the circumference of the branch and also added a gusset or brace under the branch, also made from the same wire. It's used to add extra girth and is used as a support.

a large metal object sitting on top of a pile of junk

The Trunk

I then created the branches of the tree then removed the lower heavy guide wire to allow the longer wires to pierce through the fabric which then allowed me to secure them to the trunk cage by wrapping or twisting them around the wire on the trunk.

the inside of an umbrella is covered in plastic

Old Bed Sheets

Tree Base

Mushroom Decor

After securing the trunk/metal wire to the base I wrapped the trunk with an old bed sheet I had laying around. You can see the metal structure underneath it. Sorry I didn't take pictures of the metal prior to this step. I wasn't intending to post up a tutorial.