Hands down, Halloween is my favorite holiday. My love for Halloween can be contributed to the fact that it lands in my favorite season, Fall and that my strongest characteristic of being and doing things imperfect fits well with this holiday!
This past weekend my family jump started this festive season with a trip to get pumpkins and with a project I whirled up in my head.
I have dubbed this project: Spooky Barbie
My spooky Barbie
This project wasn’t really a stretch for me because as a child I LOVED giving my dolls haircuts and dyeing their hair with Kool-Aid.
This weekend I took it up one more notch though!
I knew full well that my daughter was not going to lend me any of her Barbies for this project so I stopped at a rummage sale and picked up two Barbies along with a bigger doll for my son.
The dolls from the rummage sale
- At home I gave the kids acrylic paint and told them to paint the dolls to look…..SPOOKY!!!
- After the paint dried, we dyed the blond dolls’ hair in purple food coloring.
- After their hair was dry, I applied hair spray and we teased their hair to make it look…CRAZY!!!
- Next I fashioned dresses for them using old white burp cloths that I cut into a square, cut a hole in the middle and then I tied this makeshift dress around the middle with a ribbon.
- The final step was using watercolor paint to paint their dresses.
This was a cheap, simple project and truth be told….I would love this project even if I didn’t have kids!!!
Our spooky dolls!
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Barbies scare me anyway. This is great!
Yeah, that big doll was already creeping me out! It wouldn’t have even needed paint!!! Thank you!!!
Hahaha, never seen Barbie like this!! Haha! Very funny. Great job though!
Thank you!! Yeah, I don’t know how this popped into my head to do with the kids!!! I thought it was so funny!!! LOL!!!
I am absolutely going to do this!!!Brilliant
Oh, that’s great!!! I’m glad you like it!!! Thank you!!
That big doll was deffinitely already creepy! Great idea!
haha!!! Thank you!!!
That’s just not right. Not right at all.
OMG… so funny. Love it! Is the big doll the “leader”?
I know. I know!! I just gave everyone a deep look into my twisted mind!
I think Barbie is already spooky…. 😉 How fun is this? I’d love to try it, except that my daughter would probably decide to do that to all of her Barbies!
LOL!!! I bet if I would have had an ounce more imagination back when I was I kid I would have done this to all my Barbies!!! Just with the haircuts I gave my dolls as a kid I made them pretty scary looking!!
My sister did dismember Sport N Shave Ken, if I recall.
What a fun mom!!!
Thank you!! We had a good time doing it!!
Who would’ve thought to take an emblematic sign of beauty, such as a barbie, and transform it into something creepy for Halloween? You truly are the poster girl for creativity!
LOL!!! Thank you!! I was watching football when it popped into my head!??? Sometimes my mind is going in a hundred directions at once!
It’s the new “Barbie before her coffee”! You’re so creative – I love it! AND you found a use for old burp cloths…win-win!
I am laughing so hard right now!!! After you said that I looked at the picture again and the big doll really does remind me of myself before I’ve had some coffee!!! That is just too good!!! Great observation!!
Have I ever told you how much I HATE dolls? No. Well, I HATE dolls…freaky, little, ugly, eyes-follow-you-around-the-room evil things. While I appreciate your artistic endeavor, these “creations” would render me sleepless for months. Yikes.
haha!! I’ve heard that a few times today!! Apparently there’s a real phobia of dolls…painted or not!! I’m kind of disappointed. I was going to make one especially for you but now I have to go back to the drawing board…perhaps a “spooky ookpik”?????? LOL!!!
Ookpiks are too cute to be spooky!!
Scary! Love Zombie Barbie.
Thank you!!
This one caught my eye. I really like it! Barbies seem eternal, they live on one generation to the next. Some day, you might find one with no head dancing on a hassock! They are truly invincible! By the way, thanks for chiming in on my blog today. I have been in kind of a funk about blogging. I’m well into my fifth book and I am flying high.
Thanks!! I wondered why you hadn’t been blogging much! I can’t believe you’re on your fifth book! Congratulations! That’s amazing! You and your wife are living the dream…mountains, writing and singing!! Truly wonderful!
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I love this! Umm…. but I think I, as the adult, would be having nightmares! Haha, the kids would love it 🙂
Thanks!!! We put them on our fireplace mantle among the other Halloween decorations and every once in awhile I think one of them is staring at me!!! LOL!!!
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