Old Audio Tapes Into Awesome Halloween Decorations

by mattboy9993 in Living > Halloween

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Old Audio Tapes Into Awesome Halloween Decorations

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In this instructable I will teach you how to re-use those old tapes that you don't listen to into the best Halloween decorations ever.

Materials

The items you will need for this project are as following:
-An old (or new) audio cassette
-paper
-scotch tape
-glue stick
-markers,crayons,pencils, etc...
-small Phillips head screw driver
-spray paint (optional but highly recommended)
-LOTS OF CREATIVITY

Rewind Your Tape

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Rewinding your tape will make it easier to remove the contents later.

Open the Case

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To open the case remove the five screws and lift off cap.

Remove All Contents

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Once opened your tape will look something like this...
Remove ALL the contents

Spray Paint

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Use black (or any other color spray paint) on one of the covers of the tape.

Note :be sure to cover little clear window with masking tape if you don't want it covered over.

Prepare for Creativity

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Cover the two holes and window by taping a rectangular piece of paper over top of them.

Add Hair, Teeth, Horns... Whatever...

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If you'd like you can add another small rectangular piece of paper to where the cassette player used to read the "film" so that you can add hair, teeth, horns or whatever you'd like.

Replace Screws...

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Replace second half of and tape and replace the screws.

Once all the screws have been replaced it should look like the second picture.

Imagination...

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Now let you imagination fly...

Here is what some of mine looked like once they were done...