Coolest Homemade Carol and Max Costumes

This year’s Halloween costume was Carol from the book “Where The Wild Things Are”. I started it kind of last minute, about 8 days before Halloween.

I started out with a couple sheets of 1-1/4″ foam and formed a rough torso, hands and legs. Then I tried to manipulate a cardboard box into a head.
That didn’t work out so well! I later scrapped it for a much lighter and rounder foam dome. The face was sculpted from clay on a flat surface then
cast in plaster. Once the cast was set I used liquid rubber to create a mask to glue on for the face. Some beige and gray plush felt and some black faux fur were used to cover the foam frame.

I then painted the face, tossed on some foam teeth and horns….and that was about it. I only got to wear this Homemade Carol and Max Costume for a couple hours, passing out candy with my son (who was of course Max). It was his very first Halloween and it had to be fun!

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