{"id":6961,"date":"2024-10-30T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/?p=6961"},"modified":"2024-10-30T16:07:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:07:55","slug":"eyeball-tongue-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/eyeball-tongue-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyeball\/tongue monster!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This batshit thing is my wife&#8217;s project and I love it! She actually made most of the parts last year; there were some problems with the first version of the eyestalks, so she scrapped those after our party and kept the eyes and the hands, and this year she made new improved eyestalks as well as a new base and she reassembled everything. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eyeball-monster-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eyeball-monster-01.jpg\" alt=\"A monster that's peeking over a fence; it has two big eyeballs on green eye stalks, two big green hands with pink nails, and a long pink tongue\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 5px solid #999; padding: 20px 20px 20px 20px;\">I&#8217;m putting this disclaimer on all my Halloween 2024 (Monster Prom) projects: I was in such a panic this year I did not take many progress photos of anything! And the pics I did take are at really random stages. So I&#8217;ll dump all my pics for each project near the top, and just write up all my steps below those.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eyeball-monster-02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eyeball-monster-02.jpg\" alt=\"A giant punch bowl prop with the monster's long tongue falling down into it\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eyeball-monster-03.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/eyeball-monster-03.jpg\" alt=\"A wider shot showing the monster on the fence and its long tongue going into the punch bowl below\"><\/a><\/p>\n <div class=\"ad-300x250 ad-float-right\">\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MMS 300x250 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5009313124668288\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3616150394\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>The idea for the tongue came a bit later, when we were almost done! It was a nice way to connect this project to our <a href=\"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/monster-punch-bowl-and-ladle\/\">paper mach\u00e9 punch bowl<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<p>So, real quick, here&#8217;s how all of this was made: The eyes are balloons with paper mach\u00e9 on &#8217;em. We made the eyestalks by cutting the shapes out of foam board and then taking a piece of foam insulation tubing, cutting it down the middle, gluing both sides onto the foam board eyestalk shapes, and then covering the whole thing with about four layers of paper mach\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>The fingers are pieces of foam insultation tubing, split in half, bent onto a base of foam board, and then covered with paper mach\u00e9. The fingernails are just posterboard.<\/p>\n<p>The base for the whole sculpture is a rectangle of foam board covered in paper mach\u00e9. We drove a nail through this base to attach the monster to the top of our wooden fence.<\/p>\n<p>The tongue is a bunch of strips of foam board taped together and then curved here and there and then covered with paper mach\u00e9. To connect the tongue, I added a twist tie with a loop on it at the base of the tongue, and then I nailed this through the base of the monster and into the fence.<\/p>\n<p>Easy! And fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This batshit thing is my wife&#8217;s project and I love it! She actually made most of the parts last year; there were some problems with the first version of the eyestalks, so she scrapped those after our party and kept the eyes and the hands, and this year she made new improved eyestalks as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6964,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions\/6964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}