Ghostly Apparitions in Floating Cheesecloth
Create ethereal, floating specters that haunt your hallways or front yard with an elegant, haunting grace. By soaking fine cheesecloth in a mixture of fabric stiffener or liquid starch, you can drape it over balloons or styrofoam mannequin heads to mold three-dimensional, hollow ghost figures. Once the mixture dries, the cheesecloth hardens into a rigid, semi-translucent shell. Pop the balloons, and you are left with lightweight, floating figures that hold their shape perfectly.
Hang these delicate spirits from the ceiling using invisible thread. Because the cheesecloth is sheer, it catches the slightest breeze, moving with an eerie, lifelike float. For an extra supernatural touch, place small, battery-operated blue or cool-white LED tea lights inside the hollow heads, making them glow softly from within like restless, wandering souls.