for this tutorial you will need a yellow t-shirt or yellow sweatshirt a plastic
garbage bag preferably white some orange art foam cardboard painted orange can
also be used to ziplock bags some garden mesh or some thin black fabric
packing peanuts marshmallows can also be used
a tripod or box to secure the fan two smart phones or iPods to play an
animated eye a Sharpie markers recommended some tablecloth yellow
preferably plastic scissors tape and a glue gun
we begin by putting the cellphones into the ziplock bags the reason for this is
so we do not damage the phone when we secure it to the grill of the fan
please keep in mind if you want to use ping-pong balls or an iPod that's fine
too the app we're going to be using I'll have a link in the description below and
it has many different eyes when secured to the fan it should look something like
this
now if you already have an apron I would recommend using that because it's just
going to look better but since this is a tutorial to make an animatronic on the
cheap we're actually going to make one out of the garbage bag
and if you just want to follow along with the design that's fine and keep in
mind when you're doing this a lot of different household items can be used as
substitutes
now the good thing about using the garbage plastic bag is if you have some
colored markers you can do the let's party or let's eat or this animatronic
and whatever color you want whereas if you have an apron you may not want to
use you may not want to draw on it
and obviously we're going to do the cut lines on one side and we're going to do
the lettering on the opposite side
now while I'm doing this if you have iPods or old zoons or whatever you may
use for the animated eye there are plenty of animated gifs out there I'll
try to put a link in the description below to some of those but primarily I
would recommend using Android phones or ping pong balls even Halloween glow eyes
that you can kind of get this time of the year would work fine as well
now if you have a yellow sweatshirt you can actually stuff it so it actually
will have arms this build that I'm doing does not have any arms I put wires on
the end just so can have that kind of rugged oh no it's missing its arms and
it's really angry look to it
you saw the art foam that is actually going to be used for the mouth
as I stated you can use cardboard and just painted orange also the packing
peanuts are going to be used for the teeth
just cut them in half and use them his teeth but if you have small marshmallows
I mean this is going to be a temporary build for Halloween it's not something
that you're going to keep all year round at least I don't think you would
so just to let everybody know this is this is about an hour build obviously I
didn't film the whole build I just filmed the main points so you guys can kind
of get some ideas of how to build that I'm sure many people could make it look
a lot better than I could but it's just a great way to use what you have around
the house to make a creepy Halloween animatronic
okay here we're getting ready to make the mouth obviously we're going to make
any bill shape because that's the that's the that's the one we chose
I actually thought of a couple of different things if you have a really
really big teddy bear and you don't mind taking its head off and taking the
stuffing out you could actually make pretty much any of the five nights of
Freddie creatures
okay and once you have this done
um we're gonna go ahead and cut some packing peanuts in half and that's going
to be our teeth
obviously make sure you have enough to make two rows for the top and the bottom
and if you want obviously you can have some missing teeth or you can put some
red paint on there for blood
it doesn't take much hot glue to do that
and the reason I chose foam and packing peanuts is because they're so light and
the motor on those fans they can only handle so much extra weight you really
don't want to put too much weight on it because then it will burn out the motor
and then you only have a working animatronic
really simple project really simple build
okay so here we have both sets of teeth the mouth done now I made the mistake of
not putting the teeth on the permanent marker side so make sure you put that on
the inside because now that's going to have to be the bottom of the mouth
and when you see and you can secure it to the fan just to see how it's going to
look
and now what we're going to do is we're going to take the plastic tablecloth I
mean this is just a party tablecloth you can usually pick them up for two bucks
at the dollar store or even party cities something like that and I had the app I
had the eye app running that way I could see exactly how big it was and I did
want to leave a little spacing so we could have some black eyes and now we
just kind of cut the holes out not too difficult just be careful not to cut
yourself
and from here we're going to cut out a small piece of garden mesh and just tape
it to the back
and now that that's fitted over I mean you can tie it in the back glue it in
the back secure it in the back and once everything is kind of secure it should
look something like this and the rest is pretty self-explanatory putting the box
on putting the fabric on etc hope you guys enjoyed this