Supplies for Frankenstein Halloween Costume

Series Summary

Halloween is a great holiday for fun and festivities the whole family can enjoy. Dating back to the 5th century BC in Celtic Ireland, Halloween originally may have developed on a day when the Celts believed that spirits could intermingle with the living, and so would dress up in ghoulish scary costumes and noisily parade around the neighborhood being destructive, in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess. Today, the Halloween holiday is more fun and playful with children and adults dressing up in scary Halloween costumes for trick or treating or a fun Halloween party. Many people carve Halloween pumpkins to make Jack-O-Lanterns, and also decorate with fake spider webs, bats, ghosts, and other ghoulish decorations.

If you are looking for a great Halloween costume idea, why not try dressing up as Frankenstein's Monster? This free video series will help you put together a costume that would make Boris Karloff proud! Matt Cail shows you how to make a great yet inexpensive costume from items you probably already have around the house, including the boxy jacket and clunky shoes. He also offers tips on getting your Halloween makeup just right, including the green flesh and gruesome facial stitches, as well as the electrodes sticking out of your neck!

Video Transcript

"I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to show you how to make Frankenstein's monster. Okay, so let's go over the makeup and related products we're going to need to make our Frankenstein monster. First, we have some black hairspray paint. I guess what I call it is spray that you can put on your hair and it changes the color. Next, we have a pair of electrodes. We also have some napkins in case we have any mishaps with the makeup. Often times corrections are inevitable. We have our base green makeup, which is going to make up most of the makeup. We also have some other colored makeup’s. The important ones are gray, black, and red. We have some liquid latex. We also have some gum spirits. Not a big container, a very small one. This is an adhesive, which is safer to use on your face. Again, keep out of the eyes though. Lastly, we have a series of brushes from nice smoothed tipped brushes, to also some q-tip like inclements for more detail work. Also, some thicker ones, which we can actually put on the paint more. This and the sponges that we're going to be using will be applying the paint. "