CIRCLE OF BONES

Movies and television shows are always a great way to come up with new and unusual ideas for Halloween. Here's a really sinister looking Halloween decoration that was inspired by the "Necromancing the Stone" episode from the television series "Charmed". In this particular episode, a Necromancer is resurrected by his underling within a pentagram shaped magic circle made up from human skulls and bones.

On its own, this unique arrangement has a very chilling appearance, but add a costumed person or prop figure standing ominously in the center of the circle and its a very impressive visage.

The basic parts to re-create this display as a macabre Halloween decoration are five "Budget Life-Size 2-Piece Skulls (1st Quality)" and ten "Femur's", both available for online purchase from The Skeleton Store. These are just what you need to make a circle large enough for a person or a full size Halloween prop figure to stand in, measuring roughly five feet across.

If you want to make a Circle of Bones that is larger than the one portrayed in the television show, just use three femur's instead of two in between each skull. This will make a circle that measures over seven across.

We positioned all of the skulls to face inwards, except for the one in front, so that our visitors could see them clearly. If you want the skulls to look like they did in the episode of "Charmed", you will want to remove the lower jaw of each skull by removing the screws that hold the jaw springs to the skull.

Its important to remember that these skulls and bones are made white in color because they are manufactured primarily for the medical industry and are not meant to look old and creepy. So, you'll want to distress them to give them that "fresh from the grave" appearance. You can do this following the instructions in our "Distressing" article.

Arraigning the skulls and femurs into the desired shape is fairly easy, just place a skull on the floor or ground, then place either two or three of the femurs, depending on the size circle you are making, on either side of it in a straight line, and so on until a pentagon shaped circle is complete.

The femurs are fairly heavy and tend to stay in place well, but you can hot-glue them together if you are worried about them coming apart and becoming disarranged. Just remember, once you hot glue them together, they will be hard to seperate for storage.

Glowing Eye Sockets
For an extra spooky touch you can make the eye sockets of the skulls to glow in the dark by painting them with fluorescent paint. This will make them glow eerily under black light enhancing there overall effect. Either red or green colored fluorescent paint works well for this and look very creepy.

You can dress-up in a variety of costumes such as a grim reaper, demon, sorceress, wizard, or even a ghostly apparition and you'll put a real scare into your Halloween visitors.

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