Ultimate DIY Halloween Tombstones - Foam and Wood Realistic Tombstone Decorations
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 Published On Oct 21, 2021

Making a scary tombstone, headstone, or realistic graveyard setup. Here's a ton of DIY foam and wood Halloween tombstones ideas for your haunt. If your making graveyard decorations for Halloween this how to make your own Halloween tombstones tutorial will show you some of the best ways. We share how to upgrade cheap dollar store graveyard tombstone decorations in several easy ways anyone can do. We also build the best Halloween tombstones for windy weather and sturdy enough for people to lean over and kick around. Whether you want a simple store bought Halloween decoration makeover or a more professional DIY Halloween props for your home haunt or yard display this is everything you need to know. Learn all there is about making Halloween tombstones in this ultimate Halloween graveyard tombstone tutorial. We make DIY Halloween tombstones with plywood, Styrofoam, wood, foam, cover them with concrete mortar, paint and drywall compound. We show you how to not only make DIY Halloween tombstones sayings and epitaphs but how to carve and cut them out with routers and Dremel tools. We show all our tools, tips, tricks, and hard coating foam techniques as well as how we paint tombstones and headstone letters. Don't just settle for store bought or Spirit Halloween Halloween props and decorations. Customize and add things to turn them into a scary movie quality prop. Whether you want to upcycle material do a store bought make over or fabricate a new prop you are guaranteed to learn how to and be inspired to make all kinds of Halloween tombstones.

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

0:00 How to make realistic graveyard tombstones
0:18 Make cheap dollar store tombstones thicker
0:35 Store bought tombstone makeover
1:10 Adding PVC to stand up your tombstone
1:53 Gluing foam together with spay foam
2:50 Make a wood base for a tombstone
3:07 Carve a larger foam base for the tombstone
4:39 Adding bolts to breakdown large tombstones
5:23 Open backside for adding weight or lights
5:45 Adding thicker foam and removing lettering
7:00 Making busted up tombstone prop
7:32 Gluing wood to foam for extra weight
8:10 Using solar light posts for tombstone stand
8:43 Adding decorative items to the tombstones
9:04 Make foam tombstones heavy
9:32 Shaping the tombstone edges
10:25 Hard coating foam and filling cracks
10:58 How to mix Flexbond mortar
12:12 Applying foam hard coat
14:26 Using joint compound for texture
15:06 How to paint Halloween tombstones
18:38 Adding faux moss to you realistic headstones
20:43 Our first Halloween tombstone decorations
21:16 Making a large wood graveyard tombstone
22:15 Types of router bits used
22:58 Making a large plywood tombstone
23:50 Removable panels for sand bag weight
24:17 Getting the most out of our plywood
25:00 Created a crooked tombstone
25:16 Adding cement, paint, and fake vines
27:26 Adding letters and carving epitaphs
27:54 Plexi-glass trick with router and Dremel
28:41 Hard coating foam with epoxy resin
29:28 Wind proofing with plywood and rebar
30:19 Realistic tombstone examples
31:49 Using Drylok to protect tombstones
32:17 Using Styrofoam with rigid pink foam

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