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

My son wanted to be a robot for Halloween. So my husband and son began creating their masterpiece. They decided to make the Robot Costume from duct tape, cardboard boxes, dryer duct, insulated bubble wrap, and accented with reflectors and lights. They started with the body by laying duct tape in strips and laying a … Read more

So, I initially created this Homemade Robot Costume to use at shows and what not. However, a costume party offering 1000 bucks soon allowed me the ability to recoup my fundage on the thing. It won. My friend Ashton from “Out the Box” took it up there for me while I was at a show … Read more

This Homemade Robot Halloween Costume is an original design whose form was largely suggested by the materials we worked with. It was inspired in a general way by classic B-movie robots and George Eisner’s gorgeous illustrations for the Gang of Five tin toy repro packaging. My six-year-old son, Declan, also helped guide the design with … Read more