How to make glitter shaker Ouija planchette ornaments

 

At age 7 or 8, my sister and I gathered some neighborhood friends in our basement on old sofas draped with grandmas colorful crocheted blankets. My grandpa had built a really cool projector television using instructions from an old magazine in the 70s so it was like having a big screen television in the days when they were still quite unaffordable. We watched a tv-recorded video tape of Beetlejuice followed by an early 90s performance of Cirque du Soleil on repeat, munching popcorn like it’s was our own personal movie theater. 

It was my grandparents house originally and the basement still had stacks of bird cages from when grandma raised canaries, big shelves full of pantry staples and a massive Pegasus and rainbow mural on the wall that my artist mom painted in high school. I imagined her hanging out with friends down there as a teen. 

We found a remnant probably from those days in the form of a dusty Ouija board and proceeded to scare the hell out of ourselves by dusting it off and holding seances. Where did we come up with these ideas? I don’t know but Beetlejuice probably didn’t help. These things either terrify people with the fear of perpetual bad happenings after use or you figure it’s harmless mass produced board game. I don’t know how you feel about it but fortunately for us kids, no harm was done after our horsing around. 

Such a simple thing, made of wood or plastic is often the start of the scariest ghost stories so today, I wanted to share to make your own Ouija planchette ornaments but with a little of the sparkle that my childhood self loved. I designed the print myself and you can print them out at home on tee shirt transfer paper. I’ve never tried transfer paper on craft felt before but it worked so well with nice sharp lines in the design. If you make black planchettes, make sure to use transfer paper for dark fabrics and vice versa for the light fabrics. Check your instructions that come with the transfer paper for individual considerations while you’re making these. I designed regular and mirror image versions so you’re all set for whatever transfer paper you choose. 

Download your free planchette transfer from Dropbox

Transfer for dark fabrics

Transfer for light fabrics

For this tutorial, you will need:

Craft felt of your color choice and tee shirt transfer paper for either light or dark fabrics

Glitter

Hot glue

Ribbon

Large google eyes

Again, my clever husband, Pj pulled through for me with the great googly eyes idea. I told him I needed some kind of clear bubble situation for the center. We scoured craft stores and dollar tree looking for the perfect thing and he found a bag of multi-sized google eyes and I said that’s the thing we need. The backing pulls off of these so easily and you just remove the black pupil and you have a perfect little bubble. I’m excited to thing of more uses for these for other miniature projects. 

Gather your supplies and join me in my full YouTube video tutorial for Ouija planchette ornaments. 

If you enjoyed this project, check out my series 13 Days of Halloween Ornaments