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Eyeball Napkin Rings

Eyeball napkin rings, made with ping pong balls and yarn are a gruesome sight and a creepy addition to your Halloween table.
Keyword: Halloween, halloween crafts, halloween decorating
Yield: 6 napkin rings

Materials

  • 6 ping pong balls
  • 6 7" lengths of wrapped floral wire
  • 1 ball red wool yarn
  • 6 glass bead irises
  • Mod Podge (matte and gloss)
  • masking tape
  • hot glue

Fake Blood Paint

  • ½ cup Mod Podge (matte or gloss)
  • ½ oz. red food coloring
  • 1-2 drops green food coloring

Instructions

  • Use a metal skewer to poke a hole in each ping pong ball. Hot glue the end of the floral wire and thread it into the hole of each ping pong ball. Use masking tape to build up the back of the eyeball to create the optic nerve portion along the floral wire.
  • Use the blunt end of paintbrush or the eraser end of a pencil to create an indentation in the ping pong balls for the irises.
  • Cut eight, 10 inch lengths of red yard for each eyeball. Fray the ends of one end of the red yarn.
  • Hot glue the frayed yarn to the masking tape area of each eyeball allowing the frayed edges to cover about half of the ping pong ball. Twist the yarn down along the floral wire and secure each strand with a dot of hot glue to the end of the wire leaving some of the yarn loose.
  • Use Mod Podge to glue the frayed yarn to the ping pong ball. The yarn will string out and create the look of blood vessels while gluing it to the ping pong ball. Let them dry by standing them up in a tall glass. (Note: The optic nerve tail end of the eyeball is not covered in Mod Podge at this time, only the eyeball.)
  • Bend the optic nerve tail of each eyeball so that it sits upright and so a napkin can slide through it. Trim the length of the wire as needed. Mod Podge the yarn along the optic nerve tail, twisting some of the loose ends into frayed ligaments as though the eye was ripped out of it's socket. (eww...) Place Mod Podge coated eyeballs on plastic wrap to dry.
  • Glue glass iris to the indentation on the front of the ping pong ball.
  • Mix up a bit of the Mod Podge fake blood and paint some of the yarn to add a darker red color to the yarn and around the ping pong ball to give dimension and detail to eyeball.
  • Give the eyeball and optic nerve a final coat of glossy Mod Podge and let dry.