Halloween Costume Idea

This Halloween, while everyone else is dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, why not be something really important? Why not be the most important thing in the entire solar system? The sun.

Use Mexican folk art to inspire you for this year’s Halloween costume and enjoy the creative, tactile experience of re-creating yourself as the sun. It’s a quick, simple costume to make. Fashion yourself a head piece of sun rays, find some yellow clothing, and add a shiny yellow scarf. Start by gathering the supplies you’ll need.

Supplies:
Face and Head
• 1 sturdy, yet comfortable hair band (The kind that can hold your bangs back off of your forehead.)
• five to ten sheets of yellow or golden paperboard (Consider two complementary colors.)
• florist’s wire
• black felt-tipped permanent marker
• pencil
• scissors
• 1 roll of durable tape (yellow electrical tape would be ideal) or contact cement
• yellow or golden face paint or makeup
Optional:
• black face paint or makeup
• yellow or golden string or ribbons
• yellow or golden sequins and some glue
• glitter and some glue
Body
Yellow or golden…
• clothing
• scarf
• shoes

Designing and Assembling the Head Piece
Use a pencil to trace sun rays onto the paperboard. You can erase and redraw until you like the shape of each one. Be sure to design a “tab” onto each ray so that you can attach it to the headband later. Try to think about how to make your rays as strong as possible so that your sun won’t set before the night is through. Crease some rays “the long way” at the bottom to give a triangular shape to the base so that they don’t flop over onto your head as you are walking or dancing.