This website was such a wonderful resource for our family this Halloween. Words cannot describe my feelings of the potential for parenting inadequacy when my adorable, gentle seven year old son announced “I would like to be a robot this Halloween, please”.
The robot costume, at first, seemed like an insurmountable task. Thanks to all the wonderful ideas and advice on this site, we were able to pull together my son’s dream robot costume in less than two hours and for less than thirty dollars. Thanks goes out especially to the individual who mentioned that it was a good idea to keep the body of the robot to around the height of the hips- I don’t know how we would have managed to get him buckled in the car if we’d gone any lower.
We used pipe insulation around the arm holes and pool noodles at the bottom of the box. My son already had gold pants so he just wore those. I made the shoes out of box-board and will likely be remaking some for actual trick-or-treating as a stiffer material would hold up better.We had limited time to wait for glue to dry so my husband just wired the circuit board pieces to the box.
The head piece is a spray painted planter with LED lights and ski-goggles over the eyes. Ta-da. We will have to make a different top for school as he is not allowed to wear a mask but I think we’ll just make it out of a spray-painted milk jug top and some reflectors.
A note to others- it takes longer to disassemble a laptop than you’d think so it’s a good idea to start early.
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