{"id":2386,"date":"2016-10-22T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2016-10-20T21:43:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T04:43:52","slug":"making-an-entrance-part-2-winged-boars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2016\/10\/making-an-entrance-part-2-winged-boars\/","title":{"rendered":"Making an Entrance (Part 2)\u2014Winged Boars"},"content":{"rendered":"

The entrance gates to Hogwarts are topped by winged boars<\/strong>. \u00a0We wanted to also have the entrance gates to our Hogwarts to have those, but how to do it?<\/p>\n

We had several thoughts about how to accomplish this\u2014everything from sourcing giant piggy banks to buying pig pi\u00f1atas. After those attempts did not yield results, we opted to make them. \u00a0Here are the steps we went through.<\/p>\n

First, at one of our Community Painting Days<\/a><\/strong>, Mary-Anne and Bich took some Styrofoam and newspaper and shaped the understructure of the boars.<\/p>\n

\"2016<\/a>Next, we re-purposed the wings from our Flying Monkeys of last year, and attached them to plastic stands which we got from a ‘going-out-of-business’ sale at a local store.<\/p>\n

\"2016<\/a>Then, we installed those stands into the foam structure and added more newspaper and masking tape to finish shaping the boar.<\/p>\n

\"2016<\/a>While we initially thought of covering the newspaper undersculpture with papier m\u00e2ch\u00e9, but remembered that we had a lot of left over yellow duct tape from last year (which we used to create the yellow brick road), and decided to use that to create the ‘outer skin.’<\/p>\n

\"2016<\/a>We finished covering the first boar…<\/p>\n

\"2016<\/a>…and replicated the process for the second boar.<\/p>\n

\"2016<\/a>Next? We will paint these and install them on top of the entrance towers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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