I made these scary hands as part of my son’s Halloween costume this year. My initial intent was to just stuff some gloves with polyfil as I had done in years past, but I saw something similar to these on Pinterest and decided to give them a go.

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First, gather up your supplies: wire (I used 4 wire clothes hangers), tin foil, masking tape, a piece of paper and a pencil, a Sharpie, scissors, pliers and wire cutters.

Lay your hand on the paper and trace around it. Then, mark off where your knuckles are. If you think your hands are kind of small, borrow the hand of a larger person.

Now, cut and bend your wire to follow the lines of your finger and hand bones. Use the picture and your own hand as your guide. I found that holding the wire with the pliers and using my hands to bend it worked best.

Transfer the knuckle marks to your wires with a sharpie.

Now, using your tape and starting with the palm, tape the four fingers together, leaving spaces between the fingers as you go. You should have masking tape “webbing” between each wire when you’re done, and should still be able to line it up to your picture.

Use some scissors to shape the upper edge so that it stays just below the knuckle lines. Now do the same for the thumb and wrist.

Fun! Now you can start posing your fingers, using those joint markers as guides. It helps to pose your own hand the way you want the fake hand to be, and refer to it as you go. It should be noted that when I started posing the hand, I realized that I had limited my thumb’s mobility by making the gap between it and the index finger too tight. To fix this, I cut down the webbing, moved the thumb, then re-taped the thumb webbing.

Much better. So now we start adding the knuckles and fingers. You want to add a little flesh to your wires, or bulk up the bones, and to do this, you will wrap them in tin foil. Starting with the fingers first, take a small ball of foil to make the first knuckle. Hold the ball in place then take a 1″ wide strip of foil and wrap it around the knuckle to hold it in place, then continue wrapping the strip of foil up the finger to the next joint. When your strip of foil runs out, grab another and keep going. Make another knuckle-ball (keeping in mind that the joints get a bit smaller as you go out the length of each finger), hold it in place and wrap it up in your foil strip.

Keep doing this until you reach the end of the finger.

Now, wrap your finger in masking tape using small strips of tape. Start at the base of the finger, being sure to secure the first knuckle to the hand with your first strip. You may find it easier to work with thinner strips of tape for the fingers than you did for the hand. If so, just rip the masking tape into more manageable size pieces. Feel free to pinch and mold the fingers as you go. Continue until you have finished all the fingers and the thumb.

Now, you can start fleshing out the palm. Keep in mind that most of the “meat” in your hand runs around, but not into, the center of the palm, shape some tin foil to fit under the four fingers and down the pinky side of the palm. Make a separate piece for the base of the thumb, again using your own hand as a guide.

Cover the the first piece with masking tape.

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And now cover the thumb side piece.

Add a little flesh to the center of the palm, and that will finish off the palm side of your hand.

Creepy! For the back of the hand, you need only add a little foil below the knuckles, as our bones really do show through back there.

Cover it with tape and the back is done.

Now for the hard part…repeat the whole thing for your second hand, making sure to reverse it so that you don’t end up with two lefts or two rights. I took my original drawing, traced it through to the back of the paper and went from there.

Here are my finished hands, front and back.

They are very posable, but use care when manipulating them as you don’t want to crush the layer of tin foil too much. I left the hands just like this, but some of you may want to paint them or coat them in a layer of liquid latex. If you plan to use them in your outdoor decor, you should at least coat them with a waterproof finish. My son used them for his costume, and the whole thing was a big hit in the neighborhood.

Super creepy fun! Let me know if you’ve got questions and good luck with your own creepy hands.

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