How to Make a Duct Tape Dummy
- 1). Ask your volunteer to dress in form-fitting clothing and socks, but no shoes.
- 2). Wrap one of your volunteer's arms in at least three layers of plastic wrap. Make the wrap snug, but not uncomfortably tight. Wrap the hands like mittens. Secure the plastic with clear tape.
- 3). Cover the arm in duct tape over the plastic. Wrap from the shoulder out to the fingertips, then back again.
- 4). Use scissors to carefully cut away the duct tape arm using a single, long incision running along the under arm. Exercise caution to avoid injuring your volunteer; the plastic wrap will help with this. Cut just beneath the tape, but well above the body. Create a tape "sleeve" that you can remove with the plastic wrap stock to it. Pull this off the volunteer and set aside.
- 5). Repeat steps 2 through 4 with all other areas of the body, except the head. Do one section for the other arm, one for each leg, one for the waist, and one for the torso.
- 6). Wrap a polystyrene wig head in at least three layers of plastic wrap. Cover both the head and neck. Repeat the duct tape wrapping process with this piece and remove.
- 7). Tape up the "incision" on each of the duct tape pieces with a new strip of duct tape stretched across its length. Reinforce this piece, if you like, by placing another long strip on both the right and left sides of that strips, overlapping it.
- 8). Stuff the pieces with wadded-up balls of newspaper. Fill out the original shape of each part as much as you can.
- 9). Tuck any stray ends of plastic inside the pieces.
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Attach the pieces with duct tape to form the dummy. For a secure hold, start with one long strip for each seam. Wrap the tape all the way around the seam spot where the two pieces join. Wrap a second and third piece on the left and right sides of the first piece.
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