How to Make a Macrame Halloween Doll
These cute Halloween dolls are made with a wooden bead and 1 simple macrame knot. Create your favourite Halloween character for a spooktacular craft that's perfect for both kids and adults!
Yield: 1 Halloween doll
Cost: $1
Equipment
Materials
- Large wooden bead (1 inch)
- Multi-surface acrylic paint (green or other colour)
- Fine tipped black marker
- Paracord (to match paint colour)
- Split ring keyring
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Make the doll head
- For the head of our dolls we'll be using a 1 inch wooden bead.
- Paint the outside of the bead. Allow to dry.Repeat, adding a second coat if needed.
- Use a marker or paint marker to draw a face on the bead. The type of face will depend on what character you'd like to make.Here we did a simple face with thick eyebrows and some stitches to represent Frankenstein.
- You may also want to add some hair details that go around the top of the bead.
Step 3: Attach the head
- Cut a 20 inch piece of paracord that matches your paint colour.
- Slide a split ring keyring onto cord, bringing it halfway down.
- String the head bead onto both cord ends. Slide it up until it hits the keyring. This will keep the head in place.
Step 4: Make the doll body
- Set the cord and bead down so the bead is next to you (upside-down). This allows you to create knots like usual and end up with the cord ends at the top.
- Cut another 20 inch piece of cord in the same colour. Place it under the other cords, perpendicular to them, lining up the center.
- Make a square knot. To start, bring right end of cord to the left over the 2 center cords.
- Bring the left cord end over the right cord (the part that's now on the left), under the 2 center cords and up through the loop on the right.
- Pull the two cord ends to tighten the knot. Try to keep an even amount of cord on each side.
- Now we'll make the 2nd half of the square knot.Bring the left cord over the 2 center cords to the right and under the right cord.
- Then bring the right cord under the 2 center cords and up through the left loop.
- Pull the cords tight against the last knot. This completes the square knot.
- Make 2 more square knots below the first.
Step 5: Finish the macrame doll
- Slide the square knots until they're next to the head. These are the doll's body.
- Make a knot in each cord end, about 1 inch away from the body.
- Then make 2 knots in each center cord, for the knees and feet.
- Cut off the excess cord, close to the outside knots.
- Melt the cord ends with a BBQ lighter. This will stop the cord from unraveling.
- Your macrame Halloween doll is complete!
Video
Notes
Looking for more crafts made with paracord? Here's a few our favourites:
DIY Paracord Keychain
Paracord Snake Craft
How to Make a Paracord Bracelet