How to Make a Halloween Dummy

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Get a "Jibber Jabber" red hair doll.

   There are several of them listed on eBay.
   
   The idea behind the "Jibber Jabber" doll is to give your dummy the appearance of a character from the movie "Beetle Juice" that has a shrunken head.
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   Step 2: Lay the pants out on the bed and stuff them with old sheets or clothes.

   Follow the same step with the shirt. , Then, carefully un-button the shirt and duct tape and pin the shirt to the pants and button it back up.
   
   Be sure that pins are not showing on the outside. , Put it in an up-right position. , Once this is all done, the stuffing can be re-secured around the "Jibber Jabber" doll.
   
   The head and neck area only need to be showing, along with the cute necktie.
   
   Be sure that the neck area looks well rounded, but that no stuffing or material is showing.
   
   Press it all down inside the dummy's collar. , Put the boots on the dummy by tucking the pants' legs inside the boots; then position the dummy any way that you want. , He will be a delightful welcome for the kiddies. , Ping pong balls work for eyeballs, draw a pupil on each with a sharpie marker, insert into mask, and coat with Vaseline and stage blood for a realistic gore-bulge look ,,,
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   Step 3: Stuff the shirt down inside the pants.

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   Step 4: Sit the dummy in the chair where you want it to go.

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   Step 5: Clear or (hollow out) a spot on the inside (neck area) of the shirt (down to the chest area) for the "Jibber Jabber" doll to go

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   Step 6: and add the doll in.

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   Step 7: Give the dummy gloves

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   Step 8: pulling them over the bottom of the shirt sleeves.

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   Step 9: Have the head of the "Jibber Jabber" doll facing in the direction that the children will be approaching the porch.

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    Step 10: If you cannot find a Jibber Jabber toy

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    Step 11: use an old mask filled with plastic bags

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    Step 12: and taped up.

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    Step 13: For another spooky effect

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    Step 14: Buy a bottle of Stage Blood

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    Step 15: or Kensington Gore for those in the U.K. Add a length of simple aquarium tube

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    Step 16: connected to a turkey baster

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    Step 17: filled with the artificial blood.

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    Step 18: Run the tubing through the body of the dummy

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    Step 19: and out of a tiny hole in his mouth.

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    Step 20: Hide behind the couch

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    Step 21: and when you hear someone approach

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    Step 22: squeeze the bulb causing a jet of blood to squirt on them.

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