Craft - RIP Halloween Tombstone With Chiseled Letters

Make Your Own Styrofoam Tombstone

With Chiseled Lettering

Spooky RIP Tombstone

What you will need for this project:

Scrap Styrofoam pieces
Gray paint
Dollar store black and blue poster paint
Optional - Plasti-Kote - Car Paint Scratch - Black Scissors
Glue
Paint brushes or dollar store cotton swabs to paint with

Find two piece of scrap Styrofoam. The more beat up the better. Check old shipping boxes you have and you'll probably find some pieces to use.

The base should have a rectangular shape. You can even break the foam with you hands for some cool tombstone shapes.

Paint the foam with gray paint. In a free form way paint the gray paint lightly in some areas and darkly (two coats) in other areas because you want contrast and the look of wear and tear and aging.

I mixed black and blue poster paints to get a dark blue color. I also added additional water to the container so that the poster paints was watery. This will allow the gray paint to show through. Again, this is for an aged look. Just free form the painting with some areas getting a second covering while others only get one.

The Plasti-Kote is a product you use to fix car scratches. I used a black color on my tombstone. The Plasti-Kote cap has an attached brush (like nail polish) so you paint with that. The reason I used the Plasti-Kote instead of just paint is because the Plasti-Kote dissolves any Styrofoam it touches leaving indentations like it has been chiseled.

You can just use regular paint to paint RIP if you'd like.

Glue your tombstone in the center of your base.

Let dry.

And that's it! Easy! I just glued on some cardboard bats I made and also added some unraveled cotton balls for the cobwebs.