This prop aims to create a spider-like skeleton with a human skull along with a crystal ball held by the dragon skull. The large structure is made by spines which can loom threateningly over the heads of the kids as shown in the image below.

The cloak used is a death cloak with an open front made from some cheap black bed sheets and a large triangle of cloth is used as the hood of the cloak with one point attached at the back of the neck. As shown in the image below, the cloak covers the ribacge and spinal colum. Arms are need to be made and without hips or legs since the fortune teller is sitting in a chair behind a large enclosed table. Some very small eye bolts were used along with the attached fishing line to the wrist to make the hands move as shown below. The fishing line was ran up the forearm and to a loop near the end of the stick using more eyebolts as guides.

A foam skull was made and covered with liquid latex. The hard shell uses plaseter and cotton gauss to keep the latex in place. The rest of the box was filled using Great Stuff and the 2-part polyurethane foam was mixed using a bent coat hanger stuck in the power drill and mix the components in a clear plastic cup. As shown in the image below, the foam worked and the nose was carved out using along with the jaw and teeth. A hole was drilled in the back of the skull inn order to the attached to the black PVC pipe. To fit the servo motor, a hole was carved in the back of the skull and used the Dremel to hollow out enough of the interior of the skull. The servo was mounted onto a thin piece to metal stock which was attached to the skull.

The neck is made by carving 5 vertebra out of foam board and coated them with a couple of coats of Minwax polyurethane schelac which gave the flat foam area a hard, smooth surface. Some elastic thread was used to get the neck to work as a unit as it passes through the vertebra 3 times as shwon below. The next image shows how the head would pivot around the neck.

A piece of chicken wire with some paper mache over it is used to create the head support by molding the chicken wire over the skull to get the right shape. For support, 2 pieces of clothes-hanger wire was woven through the mesh befrore adding the paper mache. An image below shows a front view when everything was put all together which features the free-floating skull, the PVC pipe, the neck vertebra, and the black paper mache that holds the cloth hood.

The back views are shown below as the fortune teller sits in a wooden chair which has a foam-board back and a 2×4 post running behind the back of the chair. A U shape with 3 blocks of wood was created and attached to the wedge. The wedge is made to slide side by side to make the skull look side to side. The wedge is kept on track using the support pin so that it can pivot around the center point.