My son is obsessed with Star Wars, so I wanted to make that our theme for Halloween. However, I’m not a fan of any of the cheap costumes that are sold in store, and I always like my son to stand out and be a little different. So every year I make his costume. This … Read more
Over the summer, I asked my 7 year old son what he wanted to be for Halloween. After seeing Star Wars for the first time, he recently became a huge Star Wars fan. So, of course, he answered ‘R2D2’. I assumed that there would be a costume that I could get pretty cheaply before Halloween, … Read more
I am Toby and I made the homemade C3P0 costume you see in the pictures. I started with a used 2-piece navy dress suit, and tried a few different types of spray paint. Fabric paint/silk screen spray did not cover very much area, and tended to spatter. The hobby ‘webbing’ texture paints were nice, but … Read more
We had so much fun with this Homemade R2D2 Costume. My son wore a white sweatshirt and sweatpants underneath. The body of the costume is a white Rubber Maid trash can. The lid is painted with a high shine silver spray paint and allowed to dry. Then the lid is taped so that the swinging … Read more
This R2D2 costume was a very simple, inexpensive costume to make, but it got really great reactions from everyone. We purchased a garbage can with a dome lid from Home Depot for the base of R2D2. We spray painted the lid silver, removed the flip opening (where trash would be thrown through), then screwed it … Read more
My little guy loved R2D2 but there were no costumes to buy and we really love to make our own. He and I used tape, a garbage can and a cat pan (he’s going to get me back for that when he is a teen) and created a costume on a car dolly! He can … Read more
This Homemade Star Wars R2D2 Costume was built for my 6 year old son Bobby ( A diehard Star Wars Fan!) The bottom is a garbage can, the dome is a fiber glassed punch balloon and the legs are fiber glassed cardboard forms. A lot of Bondo, Krylon, Craft Foam and Hot Glue was involved! … Read more
This homemade R2D2 Halloween costume started off with a rubbermaid trash can. The exterior details are foam, carved to different shapes and sizes. The legs have a PVC base with foam exterior. The feet are supported with the PVC and have caster-base electrical conduit boxes over them. The LED lights on the lid are from … Read more
Our son is pretty much obsessed with R2D2. So he had to be R2D2 for Halloween. We set about creating a Homemade R2D2 Astromech Droid Costume. The base was a laundry tube with the bottom cut out of it, with a sheet, sewed into a tube, and then sewed on to the laundry tube to … Read more
This one’s different because the arms are actually functional! $30 total including paint. Container Store Trash can that I turned upside down. Cut the head-hole out of the bottom so the feet have more walking radius from the wider part of the can. I caulked shut the trash flap and Dremeled the visor hole. The … Read more
This R2D2 Halloween Costume is 100% Homemade! It has lights and sounds too! The costume is made out of a garbage can, bowl mounted to a bike helmet and plastic downspouts for the legs. The battery operated speakers played a loop of downloaded r2d2 sounds on the ipod and the lights are all battery operated … Read more
Long ago in a galaxy far, far away, a dad once said to his boy, “son, would you like daddy to make you an R2D2 costume for Halloween?” to which the boy replied, “daddy, do you think you can?” Knowing full well he was getting in way over his head, the father said yes anyway. … Read more