Grim Reaper With Scythe & Lantern in Graveyard Halloween Decor

This is a Grim Reaper standing with his Scythe on one hand and a lighting Lantern on the other, in a Graveyard scenery having a dead Tree, a Coffin, a Tombstone, a Ghost and some Pumpkins.

Hello everyone, this is a spooky Halloween decor item that I built for this season. It is a table top decoration, where I fitted a filament bulb inside the lantern as it glows when switching on.

Grim Reaper With Scythe & Lantern in Graveyard Halloween Decor.

The required Tools & Materials that I used in this project are some DIY and home materials as follows,

TOOLS

• Mini hacksaw
• Plier
• Nipper
• Scissor
• Pen cutter
• Ruler
• Pen / pencil
• Lighter
• Soldering iron
• Dremel
• Sandpaper

MATERIALS

• Plywood piece
• Ice-cream sticks
• Garden net (1/2 inch)
• PVC pipe / sheet
• Cotton cloth
• Dry Moss
• Dead tree branch
• Bamboo stick
• Wood-glue
• Super-glue
• Thread
• Paper tape
• Metal wire
• Aluminium wire
• Color & Brushes
• Transparent plastic sheet
• Foam tape
• Small stones

ELECTRONICS

• Wires (red & black)
• Micro switch
• Micro filament bulb
• 1.2v AAA battery
• Heat shrink tube
• AAA battery holder / terminals

I have made the Lantern using PVC pipe as main component and mix of materials, like wood, plastic, metal.

Here, I used a electrical PVC pipe to make the frame of the Lantern. I cut the pipe as a Lantern shape and two side handles, also two circle wood pieces to fit the bulb and the top.

Next, I fixed the Neon bulb in a wood circle piece and glued it to the frame. Then I passed the wires along the outside and fixed the handles too.

Then, I made the top piece and colored the Lantern in black, finally I inserted the Transparent plastic sheet into it and glued them together.

Lastly, I Made the Handle using a metal wire and inserted both the wires along both the sides and finally covered it with Heat shrink tubes.

As the Lantern is going to be held onto the left hand of the Grim Reaper, so here I built the hand using same metal wires. I shaped five skull kind of hands, thread them together, glued and covered with Heat shrink tube.

Then I finally attached the hand to the lamp.

In this step, I mad the Grim Reaper Scythe that is going to hold onto the other hand. For this I used a Bamboo stick as the handle and PVC sheet as the blade.

I cut the blade in the shape and inserted in the handle by making a hole in it.

I also colored the handle as black and blade as dark brownish. Also, I give some blood spots onto the blade and curved it as a used blade.

Like the left hand I made previously, here I also made the right hand using same metal wires to hold the Scythe.

As the decoration of the Graveyard, here I made a spooky Tombstone. For this I used a wood piece, cut onto the shape and carved a design and RIP letters.

Then I did Aluminium wire inlay onto the designs and gave some crack spots onto the surface to look as real.

Next, I made a Coffin box to place on the Graveyard. For this I used regular Ice-cream sticks. Here I cut the sticks very thin to give better real look. Then glued the sticks together and then cut them according to the all Coffin side, up and down shape.

Next, I used some Foam tape on all the sides to easily attach the box side walls. Also I applied good glue on the edges and support them using paper tape.

Next, I cut some small stick pieces and glued onto the top and side of the Coffin box.

Then I colored the box in dark fantasy color and let it dry.

To add some extra details in the Coffin box, I made a small Lock and add a Chain and wrapped around the Coffin box. Then colored them in dark to match the theme.

Here we need a power source to light up our Lantern. So I used a AAA battery here to give the power. For this I made a battery holder with PVC sheet as I didn't have one, and added some foam tape a sit was loose fit. And added two battery terminals.

Then, I took a plywood piece as a setup base and added the electronics. Here I used a micro switch and some mechanism to turn the light on/off.

I fixed the switch system and the battery holder onto the back side so it gets covered upon decoration.

Next, I took a dead tree branch to add to the graveyard. For this I used a random dry tree branch and colored it dark black.

Also, I added a base to the branch to give a support.

This is the main character of our theme the Grim Reaper. Here I used 1/2 inch garden nets to make the outline frame. First I made the half head, then made the body and later on I made and added two hands at different height levels to hold the Scythe and Lantern.

Then I used some paper and paper tape to cover the gaps and give a structure like finish.

Sorry, as I forgot to take snaps during the making, so only final structure is here.

Next, I I added both the hands and fixed them onto the Grim Reaper body frame. I also colored the face in black so that it didn't get noticed when dress is put on.

Now, is the time to attach our items onto the base. Here I added my Grim Reaper onto the left and clipped the bottom with metal wires.

Then I glued and fixed the dead tree on the right side.

In this step I added some miniature pumpkins and a halloween scarecrow ghost which I made on my earlier instructables. So, please click the individual links and see how to make them.

Next, I added and hanged few miniature pumpkins on the dead tree and a mini scarecrow ghost on the bottom of the dead tree.

Then, I finally added our Coffin box and the Tombstone to the Graveyard and few Stones here and there. For giving the blank surface a real look, here I used some dry Moss and attached them using wood glue.

As the final step, I installed black cloth on the Grim Reaper body. As I did not find black clothe so here are few things that I did.

I used a white Cotton cloth and dipped it into a mixture of (water + black color + wood glue), so the our cloth becomes black and wet at the same time and gets the fix shape when it dries.

Thus our theme is complete now.

So, here is my final craft for this Halloween Season.

This is a perfect spooky, horror decoration for you home where a Grim Reaper is standing with a Lantern in one hand and a Scythe on the other hand. Also a Graveyard scenery with a Tombstone, a Coffin box, a dead Tree, a Ghost and few Pumpkins.

Hope you have liked my craft and this instructable.

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