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carving foam, creepy tree, DIY, Eerieville, foam, halloween, Haunt, haunted attraction, haunted trail, sculpting, sculpting in foam, skeleton tree, skull, skulls, styrofoam, tree
It’s time to reveal another creepy tree for the haunt! Woohoo! Just in case you missed it, here’s the first one. This one was kind of a different process. I used the corners from the first block of foam that I’d trimmed off to shape the original tree. I glued them together, then sculpted a bunch of skulls from some other waste pieces of foam from that first tree. Then I got messy. I adhered the skulls to the core with spray foam, and once that had dried, covered the whole thing with foam coat. Then I slapped a few layers of paint on that bad boy and now we’ve got ourselves another fun set dressing!
Because I love you dearly, I documented the process along the way:

On the right, you see just the foam core, skulls, and spray. On the left, you see the foam coat that’s applied on top.

First, I painted the whole thing dark brown.

Then I added lighter browns and greens on top to make it look more like bark and bring out the skulls.