I spent a few evenings and one all-nighter hot-gluey-gluing a cardboard Percy the Tank Engine costume together for Bpu.
Percy,
I have been informed, is a girl train. She is green. My original plan
of priming the costume grey or white with automotive body rattle cans
fell through. I hope green poster paint sticks well to cardboard and
plastic, because otherwise Percy is going to be blue and brown (the
color of random cardboard), yellow and pink (the color of the frisbee
and playdough plastics), and white (the color of the wheel insets and
caulk).
Tomorrow, I will fit the Bpu into the costume and paint it together. That should be a big fun mess. She loves to paint.
I am worried about the weight and durability of a cardboard costume because one year I was a giant Lego person, and that didn't go very well. Cpu learned from that experience, and is going as a pregnant cheerleader this year. Good times.
This year for halloween, I didn't make my own costume. I kinda wanted to sew myself a 2-part dinosaur costume:
Tomorrow, I will fit the Bpu into the costume and paint it together. That should be a big fun mess. She loves to paint.
I am worried about the weight and durability of a cardboard costume because one year I was a giant Lego person, and that didn't go very well. Cpu learned from that experience, and is going as a pregnant cheerleader this year. Good times.
This year for halloween, I didn't make my own costume. I kinda wanted to sew myself a 2-part dinosaur costume:
- Green and brown stegosaurus sport coat (mixed fabrics, big shoulders, one button, soda-bottle-plastic-plates sewed into fabric on back)
- Green and brown stegosaurus stuffed tail with spikes attached to big buckled belt
- match with brown slacks and shoes. spike hair up a little.
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