Halloween Is Getting Close

That means it is time for another Wintercroft paper mask. All the photos below are from the Wintercroft website, so they are copyrighted, but they probably won’t complain as this is sort of a free ad for them. 🙂

In the past I have made 5 of these. The skull was the first in 2014 with the pumpkin following in 2015. After a year off I did the fox in 2017. I didn’t do anything in 2018 because I had retired and back in Aiken we typically only had a handful of Trick or Treaters so it wasn’t worth a costume. In 2019 we were in Oregon, but living in an AirBnb while looking for a house.

In 2020 I absolutely had to go back to doing something because our new house is the epicenter of Halloween festivities in southeastern Oregon. They close our street down from 5:00 pm until around 10:00, and hordes of trick-or-treaters are given free range of about 8 blocks. So that year I made the Devil mask. Last year I went with the gas mask and it turned out fantastic. But, the only problem was it didn’t breathe very well and after 2 hours of wearing it, the paper was getting soft from my exhalations. And two hours was all it took, to give away about 1200 pieces of candy.

: Skull

: Pumpkin

: Fox

: Devil

: Gas Mask

I’m not sure which one I’m going to make for this year, but I’ve narrowed it down to the following five. The first three below are half masks, meaning they have no backs, and are easier to make and a bit more comfortable to wear. So I’m kind of leaning towards those, but the enhanced skull mask, which fit around your whole head, are just so awesome looking.