I couldn’t use the machine because the big foam under-structure was in the way. Then I made this random curved shape that I put around the top portion, and glued it around the top edges, but then hand-sewed it down onto the hood. Then, I glued the overlap onto the front piece, and then covered that up with a black circle of felt. I glued the fleece onto the egg-shape first going around. Thanks to my friend Katie for suggesting foam and glue! I had visions of elaborate plushie designs at first.
It’s a foam craft ball plus an egg-shaped one that I picked up at Michael’s and then trimmed off some sides, and glued together with tacky glue. Here is the foam model that I used to glue the green fleece to make the head. First, we made a hood out of dark green fleece from a random Halloween pattern that was supposed to be for an animal jumpsuit with a hood and collar. Of course, a peashooter costume wasn’t probably much better.
Initially, he wanted to be a hypno-shroom, but I thought that might give the wrong impression (lol) and the idea of making a mushroom costume seemed a bit daunting. So, I’m going to try something out with that. Hmm…I’m still working on those, but I saw this great idea over on Betz White’s blog for putting “zombie skin” underneath the torn pants. So I bought him a brown corduroy blazer from Gymboree on clearance, and a red tie (that I figure we can re-use for some event at some point in time). For some reason, the zombies look like business executives. He initially wanted to be the “football zombie” but I was hesitant about the helmet/pads thing and where to get those items, so I convinced him to be just a regular zombie. For anyone who hasn’t played this highly-addictive and simple game yet, you must try it! The boys love it.