I made this Robot costume for the kids to share one Halloween a few years back. It’s a super easy costume to try on your own, especially with the Robot printable templates I provide here: If you open the .pdf file, it will have the artwork for the eyes, nose, mouth, and chest pieces. No one ended up wanting to be the Robot for Halloween (a harder costume to walk long distances in), but the children played make believe with it for months and months.
What you’ll need:
1 cardboard box for body piece
1 cardboard box for headpiece
1 printed file with Robot Templates: robot_costume.pdf
Foil, silver paint, or 6 pieces of silver poster board
Black shirt and pants to wear underneath
Packing tape
What to do:
Start by making the body piece. Take your large box, tape one end closed, then from this end, cut out a hole for the head. Then cut out armholes. Reinforce this box with packing tape. Now, make the box that will fit over the head. First secure the shape with packing tape, then cut out a hole for the head to go in, and then reinforce again with packing tape. Cover both boxes with kitchen foil (easiest!), or paint with silver paint, or cover with pieces of silver poster board (this is what I did in the picture). You will need a lot of glue and patience (& time) if you are using poster board.
Print the Robot Template file. Cut out the eyes, nose, mouth, and chest pieces. Cut holes for the eyes. Then glue all artwork onto your robot body and head.
I just wanted to say thank you so much for making the pdf printables available! I’m doing a robot birthday party for my son in 3 days and am making him a similiar robot costume and have been google searching like crazy for something to print out for the front of the body so that I don’t have to make it! (I realize that was a run on sentence, but I’m really excited!) Anyways, thanks again…you saved a tired mama lots of time.
Hi! You’re so welcome! That’s what I had in mind, so glad it served it’s purpose! Dina