body bag #2

8. Body Bag

You don’t need a real body to wrap in this bag.

Supplies:

-White garbage bags
-Rope
-Towels and sheets from around the house (they won’t be damaged, so you can just pull them out after Halloween)

Instructions:

-Lay a sheet on the ground and spread some towels and other linens on it (in a line about 5-6 ft. long).
-Now plump and shape all the linens (except for the big sheet that they are all laid on), so that they are: narrowest at one end (the “feet”), widest about a foot from the top (the “shoulders”), and round and head-shaped (for well…the “head”, of course ; ).
-Now we’re going to wrap up our handiwork in the big sheet that we put underneath it all.  Carefully wrap the sides of the sheet around the “body” of linens that you have just formed.
-Once that’s done, open up some garbage bag and layer them around the “body”.  Hold them in place with your rope, cinching it around everything tightly for a creepy effect.  You can use the rope to accentuate the form of the body even more (look how much definition is given to the head, for example, by tightening the rope around the neck area).
-And you’re done – creeeepy!  I shut mine away in our storage closet until Halloween, because it was giving me the shivers every time I looked at it!