How to make Tombstones 💀 DIY Halloween Props

Jaimie and Jay make realistic DIY Halloween Tombstones out of foam!

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Halloween is almost here!! 🎃 We make lots of DIY Halloween Props, decorations, and fun stuff this time of year and these foam Halloween Tombstones are the newest thing we've added to our DIY Halloween décor.

DIY Halloween Tombstones are CLASSIC! They're one of the most fun and popular DIY halloween props and there are so many fun ways to make them. This is our first time making tombstones from insulation foam and going through the whole process of texturing and engraving them and we had a blast.

If you'd like to make your very own DIY halloween tombstones for your halloween graveyard, this video will get you a long ways towards being inspired to making your own at home.

MATERIALS USED:
2" Insulation Foam Board
Water

TOOLS USED:

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[chris]

Shout out to Black Magic Craft for this one, but if you don’t want to go the heat gun or torch route for stone texture, crumble up a piece of aluminum foil into a ball and roll it on the foam. It makes a very nice random stone texture and doesn’t require the tools.

[chuckdickerson]

When i attach my stone to the base, i use wire coat hanger pieces to push into the foam. I also drill 1/2 inch holes thru the base into the top then use 1/2 " rebar hammered into the ground to go into these holes to keep the wind from blowing them over.

[theSundanceKid]

the sound of cutting through styrofoam at 01:54 😱😱😱😱😱 that's enough halloween for me
love the video thougy <3

[pumpkinheadghoul]

My favorite part has always been painting the patina. I love watching it come to life with the layers of colors as it starts to look decades old.

[markwilloughbywood]

When attaching the headstone to the base draw and route out a little trough first. Add glue, set stone into base...

[Hempel]

8:51 i did this in the step before doing the texts. So the text also has the altered effect without gaps of flat/clear surface.

[metalnmunchies]

I’m gonna give you guys a nickel’s worth of free advice. Instead of using water on the pink phone with your gorilla glue, try using baking soda and super glue together. What you’re going to want to do is have the baking soda on the base and the superglue up on your head stone. And when those two come together, it takes a mere three seconds and it’s completely set.

[brettdecker]

Just a tip for future projects, with spray paint its the accelerant that eats the foam so if you hold it further away you can get the paint on without the accelerant eating the foam.

[nelsonparra]

Great video. It was a lot of help in making my tombstones. For my tombstones I found Styrofoam skulls at Michael's. I cut the face off the skull and glued the face to the tombstone. Once everything is painted with drylok it looks like a detailed skull was carved out of the stone.

[alanohms]

My grandfather did this back in 1990 and was in the local news paper cause of the whole set up he did for halloween. Id bet anything he was the first.

[bobaganoosh]

bamboo skewers are great for holding foam pieces together while they dry! that's what I do at twin oaks manor haunt.

[stephenvincentgiles]

I just wrote the words free-hand, then I used regular sytrofoam, so instead of a tool, I used a silver sharpie which melted the foam. Then painted the whole with with flat white latex paint. When it dried, I sprayed it with granite fleck-stone paint. But yours look AMAZING. I'm going to re-do my graveyard this way next summer.

[snidelywhiplash]

A suggestion: For additional strength and ease of assembly, make the bottom of the upright portion of the tombstone longer, and sandwich it between two pieces of foam. Alternately, a couple sections of 1/2" wooden dowel running through-and-through the base and a few inches into the upright might work. If you really wanted to get into it, you could glue a piece of 2x wood to the bottom to make a weighted base.

Also: A 6" foam roller and foam brushes for details make the Drylok portion a LOT easier.

[MoAndAye]

Self-healing cutting mats would be handy...also, if you use enamel spray paint through your letter guides the spray paint will self etch the letters, since enamel spray paint eats foam. Saves routing and creates a more ancient, weathered, look.

[cpyimitatin]

7:34 small Dowel rods would be perfect to help hold the base and top together while the glue sets

[toddmoss]

I googled "pictures of cracks" and let's just say I will never be the same.

[steves]

Long drywall screws plus 1" wood dowel rods to hold tombstone to base or router out a void for the tombstone to sit into the base

[donnaclements]

Abso Fantastico! I love, but I sure would have loved to see how they look in your yard.

[tink]

I followed your instructions and made the tombstones with the pvc pipes glued to the back. My tombstones survived 45+ mile winds without any problems. Thank you for making this video!!

[ScarMoonYT]

I love the Edward Hyde tombstone mainly because he's my favorite character from one of my favorite books