How To Make a Halloween Skeleton From Plastic Milk Jugs

Doctors always tell you that drinking milk is good for you, but did you know that it also has benefits for Halloween-decorating enthusiasts? Recycle the containers used to hold bone-building liquid into bone-building of a different sort, as you use gallon milk jugs for making a Halloween skeleton. Halloween has never been so fun, or so healthy.

Things You'll Need

• 9 plastic gallon milk jugs, cleaned out

• Pencil

• 
Craft knife

• Glue gun

• Paper puncher (one hole)

• String

Instructions

1. Flip one of the milk jugs so it is upside down. Draw eyes, two nostrils and a mouth with your pencil on the side opposite from the milk jug's handle.

2. Cut the eyes, nostrils and mouth out carefully. Slice a couple of one-inch slits into the top of the jug, then tie some string through the slits so that you can hang the skeleton once it is finished.

3. Slice a line down the middle of one of the jugs across from its handle to design the skeleton's chest. Draw lines and make cuts in the plastic until it looks like a rib cage. Using a hot glue gun, join the chest and the head together.

4. Form the shoulders by taking two more milk jugs and cutting the handles off them, leaving a small amount of plastic around the ends. Hot glue them to the skeleton's chest up near the top of the rib cage.

5. Punch holes into the plastic on the end of each shoulder blade. Cut two pouring spouts with extra plastic around them from two milk jugs and glue them together for the skeleton's waist. Glue the spouts to the base of the chest.

6. Make hips for your skeleton by cutting a pelvic shape into the bottom portion of a milk jug. It should use about 4-1/2 inches of the jug base.

7. Draw bone shapes on the milk jugs then cut them out. Attach the bones to the hip and shoulder bones with string.

8. Trace your feet and hands onto the remaining jugs and cut them out. Punch holes into the cutouts and tie them onto the leg and arm bones with string.

9. Paint the skeleton with glowing paint for an extra spooky effect.