My children have recently fallen in love with Star Wars. So, of course, that is what they chose for Halloween. My middle child LOVES Stormtroopers, so I started looking on YouTube for ideas. I found a lot of tutorials, and you could pick any one of them. I chose this one…
http://dali-lomo.blogspot.com/2014/10/star-wars-stormtrooper-helmet-diy.html
It showed a pretty cool helmet made out of cardboard, and card board is free. This was not easy, and it took forever, but I am happy about the result.
The helmet had a free printable pattern but I made it a little smaller since it was for a 6 year old. LOTS of pieces everywhere, but following the video step by step, I started to see something that resembled a Stormtrooper.
Eventually (after using more hot glue sticks than I could ever count), I had a cardboard helmet ready to be covered in paper mache’. After letting it dry, I spray painted it and added the details. The eyes are made from dollar store sunglass lenses.
Below is a picture of the whole costume (which we decided to also make from cardboard), but it is in another post. The last picture shows how all the costumes looked like in the end!
