{"id":3970,"date":"2025-10-26T19:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T02:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:29:04","slug":"one-frogs-banjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/2025\/10\/one-frogs-banjo\/","title":{"rendered":"One Frog’s Banjo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once we decided to have an area of the set be Kermit’s swamp, we needed Kermit to have a banjo to play in that swamp. Yes, I could have reached out to our community to see if I could borrow a banjo, but I thought I could build one (and then we wouldn’t have to worry about damaging someone’s banjo). Below are the steps I went through to build Kermit’s banjo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started with a large cylindrical cement form (available from a hardware store like Lowe’s or Home Depot), which I was going to use for Kermit’s log. I cut off a small portion of it for the round part of the banjo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After that I used duct tape to tape some circular cardboard to the front and back of the cylindrical tube, added a thin wood piece as the neck of the banjo and added some cardboard at the end for the headstock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At our community painting day Shloka painted it black, and I painted the front face white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once that paint was dry, I used a white oil-based pen to mark the frets and a silver pen for position markers, strings and then to add a silver rim around the main body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I added a rainbow strap (some 80s rainbow suspenders that we had) and voila! Kermit’s banjo was done!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once we decided to have an area of the set be Kermit’s swamp, we needed Kermit to have a banjo to play in that swamp….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[393,21,71,31,30,392,22,375],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-385","tag-banjo","tag-build","tag-community-painting-day","tag-halloween","tag-how-to-make","tag-kermit","tag-paint","tag-painting-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3972,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/3972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertzone.com\/halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}