Rocky Mountain Haunters Gathering 2018 – Nibblers, Crouching Ghoul, Monster-In-a-Box

June 7-9 was the annual Rocky Mountain Haunters Gathering. This year we signed up to make several new animated props, as well as some fun, crafty art projects.

Nibblers

Mason Barton led a class in how to make his “Nibbler” art project. Mason provided the Nibbler kits for $10 each and my boys and I had a great time being creative and unique with each of our Nibblers. Hover over each picture for a description.

Mason’s instruction sheet.

Paper Mache’

Foam stuffed in pot.

Sample of fabric glue teeth.

Ben applying paper mache’.

Ben’s nibbler’s mouth and teeth

Ben’s nibbler.

Tyler painting his nibbler.

Tyler finished painting.

Painting the teeth.

Tyler’s nibbler.

I finished paper mache’ on my nibbler.

Painting my nibbler’s mouth and tongue.

Third color.

All three of our nibblers.

Crouching Ghoul

Joe Marquez and Karen Christensen led a prop build to make an animated prop of what they called the Twerking Ghoul. I prefer to call it the Crouching Ghoul. The kits cost $120. I was unable to take many pictures since I was busy building the prop, but I stole some from some of the other Haunters that were there.

Crouching Ghoul Instructions Sheet (PDF)

Monster-In-a-Box (MIB)

Blaine Young led a prop build to make an animated Monster-In-a-Box. The kit cost about $100. He did all of the welding and put together the mechanism. We were expecting to have to put the mechanism together, but he did all of the work. The mechanism will be installed inside a box or inside our casket to make it look like something is trying to get out.

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