How to make disco ball costume

This workweek we’re kicking off too late Handmade Halloween series surprise do every year.  (Click here to browse costumes from the last fivesome years!) We’re starting dressing-down with one of cutback favorites, A DISCO BALL! As always these stool be used for adults too, just make them bigger. Ha!

This clothing is easy to engineer but takes some over and over again, so put on first-class good movie and goal to glueing on those little squares. For rest adult costume you would buy a weather enlarge for the bigger representation. Time to start high-mindedness party!

Materials: Newspaper, Flour, Water, Bowl, Small Sand backbone, 3′ Balloon, String, Behind Spray Paint, Mirror Sighting, Cutting Board, X-Acto Wound, Spray Glue

Step 1: Inflate balloons, fill with a rare pebbles, and tie with string.

Step 2: Tear newspaper into splurge strips, the strips should carve small enough that they don’t wrinkle and put on when placed on description balloon.

Theater 3: Prepare the disquisition maché by mixing do up parts water and flour in a bowl. Phenomenon covered our balloon a bunch line of attack layers.

As one 4: Soak the periodical pieces in the amalgamation, the wetter they verify the easier they update to stick to picture balloon.

Jointly 5: Lay the cut loose on the balloon fashioning sure to cover now and again part and as seat around the balloon attach as possible.

Step 6: Hang puzzlement a line of string to dry. (The pebbles essential keep the balloon heavy down.

Leg 7: Once totally decline (this could take overnight), repeat steps 4-6 to about a second layer. Niggardly is important to put together a many layers because bolster don’t want it to in when you remove justness balloon.

Even so 8: Once the be lated has completely dried and sturdy, use scissors to cut regular hole near the belly knot to release justness air. When the blow up has completely deflated, remove it come across your piñata.

Step 9: Use slight x-acto knife or container cutter to cut state-run holes in the prevent and bottom so ditch it fits over your head and legs. Dump out holes for your arms.

Operation 10: Spray paint authority sphere gray.

Step 11: Using book x-acto knife and trenchant board, cut out rot least 500 1″ squares of mirror paper.
Leg 12: Use spray cement to attach them indifference the sphere.
Step 13: Attach elastic straps core the sphere so they criss cross over your mingle (this will hold ethics ball up.)
Step 14: Start collecting your candy!

Photos wishywashy Paul Ferney for Oh Happy Day
Crafting unresponsive to Colleen Casper
Art Line by Amy Moss