When designing my son’s robot costume “functionality” was key for me. I wanted lights, sounds, and moving parts and that is what I ended up with. Here is the run down of what we did. Our son loves robots and he was the one who would dress up in boxes and go around the house. … Read more

My son wanted a robot Halloween costume. I threw several different ideas up in the air but couldn’t get any ideas set in stone. One day I just started putting things together and before I knew it I had put together an award winning costume. He had a costume contest that same evening for his … Read more

It was comic relief on the 13th of March this year, and me and my friend Nile wanted to do something big. We dress up as something for nearly every occasion, and wanted to impress everybody this time. We went for the classic Robot Costumes, and was surprisingly easy to make, if a bit time … Read more

Last year my daughter and I wanted to make a really cool handmade costume for her and decided a robot was the best way to go. I didn’t know where to start so I went online and found this website which really gave us some great ideas, so I wanted to come back and share … Read more

I made my sons, ages 2 and 4 each a robot costume out of cardboard boxes, duct-taped together and spray-painted silver. The arms, head, and the bottom were all cut out with an Exacto-blade. I drew gauges, and used pop bottle tops for on/off buttons. I had to cut out holes for the buttons and … Read more

When my son came to me and said: “mom, I wanna be a cool robot this year”, I knew it had to be good. We had a lot of fun making this Robot costume. Michael and I went to countless stores searching for things to use for our robot. We found a steamer and silver … Read more

When searching for Homemade Robot Costumes, I grew tired of only silver ones which mostly seem to be made out of tin foil. I was inspired by my son’s robot room decorations from Target and my husband I decided to be robots (much to the delight of our kids). To make the costume, I cut … Read more

My costume is a Homemade Halloween TechyBot Robot Costume made out of painted cardboard boxes. For the eyes of the robot I used 2 full-size D battery halogen bulb flashlights. Taping into both flash lights switches and running 16 gauge wires from the “helmet” through the right hand ventilation tube with a switch at the … Read more

So, we have a COOL ROBOT to make, lets get the materials…. We got/bought : * Box for the head – buy or ask local stores for free! * Box for the body – free * Two boxes for the feet (tissue box size) – free * Dryer vents * Silver spray paint * Grey … Read more

Our daughter loves to make things out of boxes. This inspired her to want to be a toy robot for Halloween this year. We let her pick out the color, and painted the boxes with craft paint. We added rivets around the border with metallic paint. We had fun finding gauges which we encased in … Read more

The Homemade Vintage Style Robot Costume is made from cardboard. Eyes are LED cylon/flashing bike safety lights ($1 each), dials/gauges are printed images from Google Images, warning labels made @ TXT2PIC.com, flashing antennae on top is a headband light “bobber” (6 for $1). Also used a $3 MP3 player with built in speaker (obsolete JuiceBox … Read more