Spooky DIY Halloween Decorations: Fun Family Craft Project

Directions

1. First, mold the clay into different shapes — something similar to intestines, a finger, a stomach, a rat. Or try your hand at an alien type leech fetus thing similar to what my son came up with.
2. After you’ve molded the components that will used inside the mason jars for your Halloween decorations, set the clay aside to dry. I recommend that you wait at least 24 hours. However, you may need more time if your clay objects are especially thick. TIP: Turn the sculptures over halfway through drying so they dry more evenly.
3. Once the sculptures dry, paint them with acrylic paints. Since we were going for dead, preserved body parts, we stuck to the colors white, gray, black, brown, and red.
4. After you paint the clay sculptures you designed for you spooky Halloween decor, set them aside to dry.
5. When the paint on the clay object has dried, spray the sculptures with a clear acrylic sealer on all sides. I used two coats of sealer as we planned on immersing the final product in a liquid.
6. Once the acrylic sealer dries, place the faux organs into mason jars to create Halloween home decor. TIP: If you don’t want your clay sculptures floating or moving around inside the jars — or you want one particular set view — you can glue them into the jars using E6000 glue.
7. Choose a liquid to mimic the formaldehyde or embalming fluid in the mason jars.
8. Next, fill each of the mason jars with wine to the level of your liking. You can fill them up to the top or half way.
9. Finally, all that’s left is to tightly screw the lids onto the jars. TIP: If desired, you can also print out poison apothecary labels for your jars.