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How to make a spooky Halloween mansion
This simple and effective Halloween craft idea that can be completed in just 7 easy steps, using budget-friendly and readily available items such as toilet roll tubes and paint. We’ve included clever candles to make the windows light up to look like someone is home for trick or treating. You could also make pumpkins, toadstools, cauldrons or potions to set the scene!
Posted on Tuesday 25th September 2018
- Toilet roll or craft tubes
- Paint
- Card
- Glue
- Scissors
- Silver or white sharpie pen
- Clever Candles
- Fimo or modelling clay
Step 1. Ask children to bring a variety of empty toilet roll, kitchen roll or craft tubes. Paint these black or purple, both inside and out, and leave to dry.
Step 2. Carefully cut windows into the tubes (you may be best placed to do this with a craft knife).
Step 3. Position your tubes – constructing a castle with them. Glue the lower tubes/floor of the castle together and to a thick cardboard base. Because we are adding the Clever Candles we cannot glue the next floor onto the top of the tubes as you need access to get the candles in and out.
Step 4. Cut a shaped piece of thick card as a second floor and paint it. Leave this loose and place it on top of the lower tubes. Glue the second floor tubes together and cut squares out of the top of the tubes to give a nice castle wall effect to the tops. Use a taller tube or glue two together to create one tall turret and add a cone top.
Step 5. Enhance the outlines of the windows with a white or silver sharpie pen – get creative and draw on bricks and climbing vines. Draw on a solid looking door.
Step 6. Charge your Clever Candles, turn them on and gently place them into the bottom turrets/tubes with windows – instantly lighting up the windows. They even glimmer! Place the next floor on and place more Clever Candles to light up the second floor windows. Put the tubes over the candles so that they glow through.
Step 7. To enhance the Halloween scene make pumpkins with fimo or modelling clay. Make little red toadstools, witches or wizards hats and brooms. Children could make potions and concoctions to follow on from this activity.
Have you seen our other Halloween crafts ideas? Check them out below.
Haunted Mansion
From the original ride to now-three of film adaptations, Disney’s Haunted Mansion is properly cemented into the company’s spooky canon. This installment is in line behind 2003’s nostalgic Eddie Murphy chapter and 2021’s Muppets edition. Justin Simien (“Dear White People,” “Bad Hair”) directs this return to a Black-led live-action iteration of the story.
The simple plot lends to simple execution across the board. Single mother Gabbie (Rosario Dawson) has moved into the antique house of her dreams with her nine-year-old son Travis (Chase Dillon). But not long after stepping into the home, they become blatantly aware of the spirited tenants occupying the creepy abode. Enlisting the help of grieving astrophysicist Ben (LaKeith Stanfield), priest Father Kent (Owen Wilson), medium Harriet (Tiffany Haddish), and haunted house expert Professor Bruce Davis (Danny DeVito), the gang hopes to put their heads together to rid the house of its supernatural tormentors.
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“Haunted Mansion” is star-studded but shoddy at best. Despite the talent of writer Katie Dippold (“The Heat” “Parks and Recreation”), the script’s punchlines are forced and flat. Everyone is doled their share of one-liners, but Wilson and Haddish carry most of the weight. While Wilson often runs dry, Haddish delivers in her classic tone and cadence, executing flimsy jokes to her best ability. The script does toe the line of Disney’s boundaries, tossing in some light innuendos in a somewhat concerted effort to draw in more mature audiences.
Simien’s film does display its fun-loving origins in how the house can transform into a surrealist landscape. Halls that never end, ceilings that extend into impossibility, gargoyles, hidden rooms, and the ever-so-classic ghost-inhabited portraits recall nostalgia for the film’s classic Gothicism. “Haunted Mansion” boasts a handful of playful chases and spooky sequences, but they’re fleeting and soon bring us back to the film’s stuttering pace. It’s hard to find any true tension in “Haunted Mansion” until the climactic faceoff in the third act.
Perhaps the greatest letdown of Simien’s movie is how little the cast delivers. The ensemble is brimming with lively, prolific candidates, yet the script hardly seems to keep this in mind. Their talents are either underused or misdirected. Stanfield’s Ben mourns the loss of his wife, his grief becoming a cornerstone of the story. Yet while we’ve seen Stanfield display emotional depth in other roles, every tearful moment feels like a soap opera, not on account of sentiment, but performance. There’s a sense of watered-down contrivance across the board. The forced, postured will-they won’t-they romance between Stanfield and Dawson showcases this also. And with seasoned comedic actors in Wilson, DeVito, and Haddish, too few of their comedy efforts actually hit.
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“Haunted Mansion” is constructed with the familiar bricks of a Gothic tale, down to the theme of grief that runs throughout. There’s a thoughtful examination of how grief makes us vulnerable while also being able to harness the power of that love to connect with one another and appreciate the lives we lead. There’s also value for family audiences in the nostalgic spookiness that rides along the surface. But with a repeated sourness in the film’s comedic efforts and a tragically misused ensemble, “Haunted Mansion” misses the chance to become a Halloween classic.
In theaters now.
Peyton Robinson
Peyton Robinson is a freelance film writer based in Chicago, IL.
How to Draw a Mansion
Learn how to draw a great looking Mansion with easy, step-by-step drawing instructions, and video tutorial.
By following the simple steps, you too can easily draw a perfect Mansion.
Complete Mansion drawing
“Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.” – James Joyce, Irish novelist
Do you dream of meeting Mr. Darcy at Pemberly? Or perhaps you wish to live like a Hollywood movie star?
You can learn how to draw a mansion and create your own dream house. You won’t need a million dollars – just the help of this easy building drawing guide.
A mansion is a very large house. The term comes from a Latin word meaning “to dwell.”
Scroll down for a downloadable PDF of this tutorial.
Mansions were usually self-sustaining, having forests, gardens, farms, and water sources. Some were fortified to fend off enemy attacks.
Today, mansions are a type of “conspicuous consumption.” In other words, they are a way of displaying one’s wealth.
Mansions are associated with the rich and famous, including actors, rock stars, sports heroes, and government officials.
If you liked this tutorial, see also the following drawing guides: Gingerbread House, Lighthouse, and Log Cabin.
Step-by-Step Instructions for Drawing a Mansion
How to Draw a Great Looking Mansion for Kids, Beginners, and Adults – Step 1
1. Begin by outlining the geometric shapes that make up the central portion of the house. First, draw three rectangles, two of which are narrow. Above these, draw a trapezoid with curved sides to form the roof.
Enclose a narrower, longer trapezoid behind the first. Then, use three straight lines to complete a square beneath it.
Easy Mansion Drawing – Step 2
2. Draw a straight, horizontal line near the bottom of the square. You’ll use this line to place the staircases. Draw the banister or handrail using parallel curved lines, connected at the ends.
Draw a curved line below the banister, visible on opposite sides, then draw pairs of straight, vertical lines between this and the banister. Use curved lines to enclose a curved triangle shape below the banister. Then, draw another curved line roughly parallel to the banister, and connect it at the bottom with a straight line.
Easy Mansion Drawing – Step 3
3. Draw straight, horizontal lines to create the stairs on each stairway. Draw two straight, vertical lines between the stairways. Above this shape, draw a series of narrow vertical rectangles, with a long, round-cornered rectangle on top. This creates a porch on the front of the house.
Easy Mansion Drawing – Step 4
4. Draw two columns above the porch. For each column, draw two straight, vertical lines. At the top, draw a small rectangle with rounded corners. Then, draw the windows.
The arched windows can be created using a straight horizontal line on the bottom and a curved line on top. Draw another, slightly smaller shape within each. Then, draw crossbars across the windows using straight lines.
Notice that the balcony window is wider than the others and has additional crossbars.
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Easy Mansion Drawing – Step 5
5. Draw an arched doorway using curved lines. Then, enclose two rectangles near the bottom and curved three-sided shapes near the top. Then, draw another section of the mansion, using a rectangle for the building and a triangle for the roof. Draw a lightning rod on top using straight and curved lines.
Easy Mansion Drawing – Step 6
6. Draw arched windows with crossbars on the new section. Then, draw more extensions. Use rectangles for the walls and triangles for the roofs.
Easy Mansion Drawing – Step 7
7. Draw more lightning rods on top of the building using straight and curved lines. Then, draw rounded doorways on the new sections. Band one area with straight lines to create another balcony. Draw an oval in front of the house to begin drawing the fountain.
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Add More Details to Your Mansion Picture – Step 8
8. Draw a line across the oval and another, smaller oval above it. Enclose an irregular shape to create the fountainhead. Then, use connected curved lines to create the splashing shape of the water.
Complete the Outline of Your Mansion Drawing – Step 9
9. Use curved and straight lines to outline the driveway. Then, draw bushes and shrubbery in front of the house, using curved lines.
Color Your Mansion Drawing
Color your cartoon mansion.
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Easy, step by step Mansion drawing tutorial
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