How to make an "Iron Man" to a costume party?

Is there a costume party, a morning performance or a performance? It is urgent to prepare the most creative and memorable costume! Of course, there are many options, but we must also take into account that the process of creating a dress must be available.

In this case, we will try to reflect on how to make "Iron Man" at home from improvised means.

Consider the two easiest approaches, we will make a suit of cardboard and fabric.

How to make "Iron Man" from cardboard

We need the following items:

- A box in which your hero will fit (for example, from a microwave oven, a vacuum cleaner or an electric heater).

- A few boxes from the shoes to dress the legs.

- Roll of foil.

- Scotch.

So, we begin to act. First of all, cut the holes in the big box at the top and bottom for your torso. The box will be worn over the head.

Then cut out the same plan holes in the shoe boxes for the arms and legs (with the appropriate diameter).

It is best to remove the covers from the boxes, open the holes, then the box can simply be put on the arm or leg and closed with a lid.

If you do not know how to make an Iron Man suit with your own hands, ask your parents or older friends to help you in the process of assembling the parts.

Fix and at the same time decorate it all with foil. Motok will go to the full winding of the trunk and limbs. It is a little necessary to leave on registration of the person. The face should be covered with foil in a pure form, without boxes. The spectacle promises to be terrifying!

And yet, as an easier version of limb decoration, you can adapt a stainless corrugated tube from the sanitary ware shop. Ask the pope to take part in this important matter!

Minus such a costume in the complexity of selecting the right number of boxes, a large expense of foil, and, most importantly, this costume will have to be created every time again ...

How to make "Iron Man" from cloth

You need to go to the tissue store and buy the required material. From the offered assortment the most often suitable variants of jersey with spraying. If the hero is a girl, then you can buy a paillette fabric. If the boy, it is better to choose something less glamorous. Silver fabric supplex or Lycra, Lurex or viscose with a metal coating is perfect for this purpose.

The fabric consumption is calculated from such a scheme: trouser length + blouse length + sleeve length.

At home you should cut your pants and jacket. Here, without special skills will be difficult. You can take the most primitive pattern from a specialized magazine, taking as a basis some pajamas, while getting the real drawings of the costume "Iron Man". As an option, you can circle your favorite T-shirt or tracksuit on the newspaper.

Sostrochit all can be on the most ordinary sewing machine. But the main thing is to make sure beforehand that she is able to "make friends" with the chosen fabric.

You can decorate a costume with old CD-disks and various details from broken machines or robots.

Final touches

When the case is completed, it remains to apply a metal make-up on the face. This is suitable for fat cream and silver sand from the flower shop. You can also use metal shadows, covering them all the face or its individual parts.

Now you know exactly how to make the "Iron Man"!