Spooky Starch Ghosts

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My mom and I often start conversations with, "Did you see what I pinned?" This weekend when we went up for a visit my mom had a spooky starch ghost project for us.

The source of this pin is from Love and Laundry, check it out as she made hers a little differently.
Supplies:

• Cheesecloth
• Balloons
• Googly eyes
• Glue gun
• Liquid Startch
• Battery operated candle
• Cups in different heights

Pour your liquid corn starch into a bowl. Blow up a balloon and rest it on the top of a cup or vase. We made our ghosts in different heights.

Cut the cheesecloth into squares, we just eyeballed how much we would need, I don't have measurements. You want the piece to be large enough to drape on the table/work surface. Note we didn't put anything down, we should have put parchment paper or something down.



Dunk the cheesecloth into the liquid starch and wring out the excess.

Drape the cheesecloth over the balloon. You want the bottom of the cheesecloth to fan out as this will become the stand for your ghost. We did three separate pieces of cheesecloth for each ghost. In the picture below on the right, you can see how we cut off some of the bottom, we had a bit more of a stand than we needed.

We let our three little ghosts dry over night. In the morning we found that the tops were completely dry but the bottoms needed some help. Hair dryer to the rescue! Now you could be patient and let them dry but my mom and I are the opposite of patient in crafting.

Next the fun part! Pop your balloons! In the top right, our blue balloon was deflating and on the bottom it is gone. Just stick a needle through the cheesecloth and poke a hole. When our balloons deflated our ghost heads caved in a bit but we were able to shape them back.

When I saw our little ghosts I immediately felt like they were us, our little family of three. So of course I had to add bows for the girls and a bow tie for Marc. We hot glued them on along with the googly eyes. We used a battery operated flickering candle that they sell. They look so cute flickering away.

Super easy and super cute!

Spooky Starch Ghost Family

They are boo-tiful!