Garland from doll heads - DIY Halloween decoration 2022

Never, never, never enter a house whose walls are decorated with strangely painted doll heads and chicken bones.

With 99% probability, there is no good-natured, weird toy collector living there, but someone who wants to separate your skin from your flesh alive with a blunt knife, in order to sew a fancy hat for the coming winter.

Often psychopaths have missed the jump from their traumatic childhood and instead find great pleasure in bizarrely defaced doll utensils on the wall (if they do not paint them with their own blood).

So just the right decoration for a proper Halloween.

And since hopefully not all of you are a drooling gummy cell dweller with your dead mother's hairstyle, here are a few ideas on how to create such a bizarre Halloween garland of a different kind.

What you need to make a garland from doll heads

First, of course, one thing above all: doll heads.

As many as possible and as different as possible. Large, small, old, new, with short and long hair.

Maybe you just use the next weekend to roam around a flea market!

If you don't feel like it, or if you just live too far away, with a little patience you can easily and usually relatively inexpensively purchase a box of doll heads at a large online auction portal.

Halloween Jack paid 10.-$ for all the doll heads seen in this article. (And maybe you'll be lucky and acquire arms and legs to go with them. I wonder what macabre decorations you could make with them?!)

The other utensils depend on how you want your heads to look later. There are almost no limits to your imagination. Here's a list of things Halloween Jack used for his "You're sick in the head" Halloween garland:

• doll heads (see above)
• cutter knife, scissors
• different feathers (you can find them in craft stores)
• acrylic paints and brushes
• spray cans with the colors red and black
• lipstick and kohl eyeliner
• boiled chicken bones
• string
• adhesive tape
• transparent foil
• sharpie in different colors
• matches
• Crochet hook
• Toothbrush
• Hairspray

Craft instructions garland from doll heads

The design of the doll heads

And off you go! There are no limits to your imagination. Spray paint faces! Remember to cover the hair if necessary, so that they are not involuntarily colored with.

If you paint them with thick white paint, the faces will get something voodoo like.

How about a face painting inspired by New Zealand tattoos?

With sharpie pens, you can give the faces eye rims and colored pupils.

Braid feathers and chicken bones in their hair!

Splash them with red paint! Let the paint run! Paint occult symbols on their faces and decorate them thickly with smeared lipstick! (But beware: grease pencils, like lipstick or kohl, do not dry. That means you have to be a little careful even later, when all the other colors have already dried). 

Cut the heads half bald! Paint, smear the hair and knot them together! Turn hooks and screws into painful places!

Paint, brush, tinker, play!

And this is what the doll heads might look like in the end:

The threading of the garland

To string the heads, cut holes in the head on the left and right side (e.g. with a cutter knife).

Make sure that the holes are in the upper part of the head so that the threaded head does not dangle face up on the line later.

Such a hole in the doll's head is not the eye of a needle, but it is still not easy to thread the string through the top of the skull.

For easier handling, it is recommended to push the string through the head with an elongated object such as a crochet needle or a shish kebab skewer. To do this, attach the end of the string to the tip.

To prevent the heads from all slipping together at the lowest point of the garland, it is advisable to urgently install small stoppers that fix the head in its respective place.

These could be, for example, matches that you knot into the string. You then simply let these disappear into the doll's head. Make sure that the stopper is not smaller than the hole.

Such a doll head garland has a surprisingly high weight at the end. Make sure that the matches can withstand the weight and, if necessary, simply tie two matches together or use something more stable, such as metal nails.

Otherwise, you may hear the matches crack and break under the weight of the heads, and the whole garland will slip in the middle.

Encore: What's dangling from the ceiling?

One doll head garland does not a madhouse make, as they jokingly say in psychopath circles.

But for the shrewd collector, there is the possibility of staging a beautiful ensemble of madness with a few selected separate hanging heads.

Save a few of the most beautiful heads for this purpose.

Drill a hole in the top of their skulls and attach a match or nail etc. to the end of a string as a suspension, which you insert through the opening in the head.

Now decorate the suspension with all sorts of getand.

For example, feathers, chicken bones, pieces of branches. But also first time not so obvious objects can be considered.

How about incorporating a small stuffed animal, for example!

The more of these heads dangling from the ceiling, the greater the decorative effect.

The result

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