How To Hang Skeletons So They Look Like They’re Climbing The House
The other afternoon my neighbor was talking about how one of her friends would always have skeletons climbing up their house each year at Halloween. Intrigued, I set out to figure out how to make this happen.
First you’ll need skeletons. I found these skeletons at Walmart. They are 50″ tall and pretty lightweight too. I found a similar one at Home Depot, but they seemed a lot heavier.
If you want to make any adjustments to the joints that don’t move you can do so with a screwdriver.
I flipped a few of the hands around and rotated another a little at the hip.
You’ll also need this plastic coated picture hanging wire. It’s strong and coated so it won’t scratch the siding or skeleton or paint.
How To Hang Skeletons On Vinyl Siding
Hanging your skeletons on vinyl siding is so simple ya’ll! All you need is these little vinyl siding hooks that easily and harmlessly clip onto your siding.
After attaching the clips to your siding, you use the coated picture wire to make a loop around the skeleton and attach it to the siding hook.
Twist the ends around to close the loop and secure it. I used at least three or four clips per skeleton.
Figure out what position you want your skeleton’s to hold before adding them up to the side of the house.
I added three skeletons to the side of the house before stepping back to the walkway and realizing that you couldn’t see a darn one from the sidewalk. Next year I’m going to psych myself up to climbing on top of the garage room to reach the side of the house that could be seen from the road.
This year I decided to shift these guys to the front of the house on the brick.
Skeletons Climbing Up The House On Brick
When I switched gears and started researching how to hang the skeletons on the brick I came across this tutorial by TracRat on Instructables. He made little anchors out of picture wire and attached them to the side of his house with hot glue. So of course I had to try it out.
I made little anchors out of the coated picture wire. Added about a dime size amount of hot glue to the brick then pressed the tail of the anchor into the hot glue.
Let the hot glue set for a few minutes before using it.
TracRat used zip ties to attach the skeletons to the anchors. I tried that but had trouble hovering on the ladder trying to feed the little tail of the zip tie into the end correctly. I preferred using a longer strand of the coated picture wire instead. This was really easy to attach around the skeleton, weave through the anchor and twist the end to close it.
I took advantage of the second story windows too and attached long strands of the picture wire to the skeleton and closed them into the window as extra support.
I didn’t hang any skeletons above where someone would walk underneath it just in case.
The climbing skeletons i hung below the windows have stayed put for days now.
This guy below is hanging solely from the anchors and hasn’t budged yet. I’ll keep ya’ll posted 🙂
To remove the hot glue from the brick I used rubbing alcohol and a tooth brush. I made sure to test this out and it did all come off of our brick.
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