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Roper Mountain Science Center’s Milk Jug Skeleton |
Making Our Milk Jug Skeleton
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The hip section of the skeleton was cut out of the top third of the fifth milk.
The milk jug caps were then glued on the milk jug sections. When they had dried, I strung fishing line down through the head cap, then through the trunk section, and down through the hips. The fishing line allows the skeleton to rotate and move, but not swing wildly.
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The arm and leg sections all got holes punched in them. Paper clips were threaded onto bones and they were attached to each other.
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Did you create Halloween craft at your house?
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This is great! I love me a good recycled craft! Well done!
He looks so cool:-) love recycled craft!
That is one very good-looking skeleton! It kinda reminds me of the Halloween story poem I posted today…except a little less scary.
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This is so adorable. Love!!
Very cool! I’m pinning this to do next year.
That is so clever!! My favorite so far of Halloween fun!! Thanks for sharing.
What a fun idea!!
What a great idea, and I love that you’re reusing old milk jugs!
That is just adorable!!
I love this! such a great idea and a neat way to reuse milk jugs!
Cute and so friendly!
Awesome, I love that he is connected with paper clips. We made Perry the Platypus from a box this week. Happy Halloween!
What a great idea and TOTALLY adorable.
PS Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
Very clever! Love it.
That is such a great idea and what a good way to recycle!
Love it! What a great way to reuse milk gallons!
Brilliant! And can I just say, wow…you go through as much milk as we do. I didn’t think that was possible. 🙂 😮
That is soooo cool! I love those simple yet genius ideas! And it looks fantastic!
It is wonderful!! I did some q-tip skeletons and paper ghosts this year.
Very creative and such a cool way to do a festive Halloween decoration!
This would be good for human body unit study.
Very cute, I will file this away for next year but Nate might want to make one even after Halloween too!
That is such a great idea! I would have never thought about doing that!
Love this! I will have to try this next year 🙂
This is so great. I would love for you to link this, and some of your other amazing ideas, to my weekly Mom’s Library Link-Up.
http://heymommychocolatemilk.blogspot.com/2012/10/moms-library-link-up-3-for-me.html
Thanks and be blessed,
Julie
Wow! Wonderful creation ~ Happy Halloween and Samhain ~ no Halloween here ~ (A Creative Harbor) ^_^
looks great! I like how you turn the handle into the nose.
have a great day.
What a wonderful craft! If I had seen this when my boy was little, we’d have certainly tried it!
Oh I love this idea~! WEll have to keep it for next year.. I made a corn shock and then had a ghost peeking out behind the shock.. I put the corn shock on the lamp post that is out by the end of the driveway.. Turn the light on at night and it glows onto the ghost.. Should of taken a picture.. maybe I’ll post it tomorrow..
Love the skeleton,,,it’s so very cute~!~! ta ta for now from Iowa:)
A really clever piece of craft/. And the white plastic looks almost bone-like.
What a great idea to use the milk jugs. We don’t do Halloween here. I love what you made of them.
That’s great! I don’t do any Halloween crafting, because 1. I’m craft challenged and 2. I live too far out for trick or treaters…
I do love seeing the things you and JDaniel make though!
That turned out GREAT!!!!!!!!
This is so cute! Turned out wonderfully!
What a great skeleton! He can be outside and will last from year to year — and I love his paper clips!!
I bet JDaniel was thrilled! (Did he remember his Halloween safety lessons?)
That is fantastic, I really wanted to make a skeleton, but we ran out of time.
Milk jug skeletons! How clever!
What a fun idea. My kid has a current obsession with skeletons so we might need to start saving up milk jugs!
Your milk jug skeleton looks awesome! What a cool idea!
This is so clever! Great craft idea!
Those are so cool. No decorations at our house since we live so far off the beaten path that we get NO trick-or-treaters. However, we did (and always do) decorate the dogs and the rabbit… come see by clicking here
I’ve seen those sold at craft shows and you did an excellent job. I’d buy yours in a flash. I’m wondering how long it took. My guess is three or four hours. Am I close?
What an X-cellent, X-cellent craft idea!
What can you make with milk cartons for Thanksgiving?
I totally missed Halloween this year!
Thank you for linking.
Glad your little ‘energy bunny’ is back in school today.
A+
Im wondering if you coulf paint these with glow in the dark paint?