Made by Aimee Smith
My 11 year old was desperate to be the Razorbacks mascot for Halloween… knowing I couldn’t afford $300+ to buy it, I figured I would make it! So, Paper mache it was!
I used a cheap $3.00 rubber ball from the big bin at Walmart, packing paper(newspaper)… foam pipe insulation, expanding foam insulation, plastic mesh, quilt batting, red minky fleece and black faux fur totaling about $35.
After many layers of mache, I cut a very small slit in the rubber ball to slowly let air out.
At this point I used the expanding foam to fill the head… I used a mixing bowl that roughly fit my head to press into the foam for shape, then continued to fill around that… after the foam had set overnight, I took a knife to trim to shape for my son.
Next I attached the snout for which I used Pipe insulation foam to get the snout ridges, with mache strips and masking tape. I used the plastic mesh for eye openings allowing him to see easily. Finished off with batting and covered all with minky fleece.
After 3 weeks of work and dry time, we had our costume, and my boy was over the moon about it all!
Wow, how clever you were to figure out how to do the mask. It looks great!
Creatively done…what a lucky young man your son is…
I’m imagining his beaming smile in those pictures!