Happy Halloween Crafters! Hope you have a great night tonight “trick or treating” or heading out to a fun party. If you made somethin’ for today, don’t forget about our CRAFT Halloween contest. We’re looking for costumes (made for you, your kids, or your pets), as well as food and drinks, and spooky Halloween party […]
Part Kid, Part Machine, All Cop another great homemade costume :) The boy insisted for months that he wanted to be a robot for Halloween. His sister was a robot when she was his age. We looked at various robot images on the computer and he was most intrigued by Robocop. After I showed him […]
Images from the Masked Marvelous event in Queen, NY. Halloween… aka “the maker’s holiday.” We hope you’ve had another fun time planning costumes, props, food and party favors this year, and that you’re having a fun weekend unleashing your creations on family, friends, and hapless neighborhood children. We always get a kick out of seeing […]
I know, I know, my “Scariest Pumpkin Ever” build is from a few years ago, but I thought I would post it up again for those of you that might have missed it the first time around. If you have an Arduino, and a few other inexpensive parts, there is still plenty of time to […]
Uwe and Chris Oehler of Guelph, ON, built this 5′ Dalek costume, basing their initial design on the “official” blueprints found on Make: Online. My son and I make a Halloween costume each year. In the past he’s been such things as an astronaut, a steam punk robot, a kid with a fish eating his […]
DIY Haunts is a cool contest sponsored by Jameco Electronics and MAKE that challenges makers to utilize sound, light, and movement to create the ultimate Halloween decoration. But you have to build it… quickly! Our deadline is midnight, November 2nd. With less than a week remaining, here’s what you need to participate: Our contest landing […]
I used plastic greenery from the craft store hot-glued to a latex bald cap and then used a light brown cream make-up to color my head pseudo-terra cotta color. My beard was colored first with spray-on temp hair color, then sprigs of greenery were attached with spirit gum. The styrofoam head-form was a godsend. I thought to ask for it at the costume shop as an afterthought, as I was checking out. They sold one to me for $1.99. I figured I would just stuff the bald cap with newspaper and build a crude stand for that. But the build turned out to be very finicky, fragile, and time-consuming, and it really needed the consistent shape and solid foundation. I don’t know if it would have been successful without the head-form. The costume was a big success and I got lots of compliments on it, so it was worth the many hours of work and all the frustration. I managed to get the wig back of the head-form after an evening of partying and it now sits on the console cabinet in my living room as a curious art object.
