How To Make A Monster Garage Door

The monster s eyes and top of its mouth are attached above the garage door and stay put.

How to make a monster garage door.

One look at the before photo can easily make you appreciate how much imagination grit faith and commitment was required to turn this filthy mouse infested foreclosure into a warm inviting craftsman style home. And yes as the garage door closes and opens it appears as though the scary creature is. I love to make things myself and especially saving money doing it myself. You just use paper and other supplies to create a face on your door so that the door itself is the monster with a monster wreath you are creating an adorably scary little critter that hangs on your door and greets trick or treaters.

We needed a replacement garage door and i perfer one that swings out so i can use. The idea with a monster door is simple. But the monster s bottom lip and teeth are on the lower part of the door and move when the garage door. When amanda opens her garage door the jaws of the monster close an effect which is impossible to look away from.

This was a little tricky to do solo so i would suggest recruiting a helper. 1 hang black plastic over garage door 2 draw design for eyes and teeth on foam core 3 cut out eyes and teeth 4 using poster board cut out eyebrows gums and any additional facial features. In 2016 she turned her garage door into a scary monster and this year she s turned it into a dragon. These will allow the door to roll freely.

Each of our panels will be 12 feet by 3 feet 3 7 meters by 9 meters. Stretch tarp over your garage door. After painting toothy jaws on her automatic garage door and two terrifying green eyes above the face of a creepy monster was glaring out from amanda s home. Make three panels each measuring the width of the door by the height obtained in step 2.

Cut two pieces of 1 by 2 inch wood studs to the width of the door less 2 inches 5 centimeters. But this is far from the coolest part. I tensioned the tarp using regular bungie chords but you could just as easily use rope or tape even. Lower the door and voila one monster house.