Is It Halloween Already?

Well, no, but RobotBoy has been bugging me about his costume since sometime in June. So, this weekend we did some re-arranging to create a crafting space in a corner of our kitchen and got started on that project.

I think I'll save telling the specifics of what/who he will be for later. But here are some photos to pique your interest.

We started with the sheild, cutting a nice round out of cardboard and attaching straps on the back for RobotBoy's arm.


We threaded the straps through slits in the cardboard and tacked them down.




Then we went to work on the breastplate. RobotBoy did most of the cutting.



We bent it roughly to fit around his torso and used some tape to hold the shape.







The last step (for today) was applying the first layer of paper mache to both pieces and setting them out to dry.



It feels like a good start.