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My daughter wants to be maleficent this year, and after a search of costumes turned up a bunch of neat adult costumes and a whole lot of what I would term malefitramp costumes for the "tweens", I was left to come up with my own.
We began going left of center right off the bat when a neighbor chopped down a pine tree that was being eaten by borers. We grabbed a suitably sized stick. My daughter wanted a PINK crystal up top, not the more traditional one. This was accomplished by a dollar store bouncy ball cut open and stuffed with 'shimmering' confetti strip packing thingies (technical name, really) and a dollar store flashlight. This was all hot glued together, followed by wrapping the stick with some of my rope and some filler 'gems' to make a nice "handle".
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Next, we hid the flash light under some DAS clay.
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Notice I left the break there so we can change the batteries.
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With the staff just needing some finishing work, that left the horns being the next hurdle. First, we made a little cast of her head.
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Then quickly sculpted some horns with some plasticine clay.
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Followed by a plaster mold of said horns.
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Then we cast the horns in latex and stuffed them with cotton balls to keep them nicely formed. Once dried, I cut a slit at the base of the horns and slipped them over another dollar store item in a hair band.
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Just now finishing up the staff.
The top was painted with the random blackish mismatch paint I had laying around, then dry brushed the accents with gold.
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The bottom, I took advantage of all those borer tracks, stained the wood with walnut, and filled in the borer tracks with more gold.
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We began going left of center right off the bat when a neighbor chopped down a pine tree that was being eaten by borers. We grabbed a suitably sized stick. My daughter wanted a PINK crystal up top, not the more traditional one. This was accomplished by a dollar store bouncy ball cut open and stuffed with 'shimmering' confetti strip packing thingies (technical name, really) and a dollar store flashlight. This was all hot glued together, followed by wrapping the stick with some of my rope and some filler 'gems' to make a nice "handle".
Next, we hid the flash light under some DAS clay.
Notice I left the break there so we can change the batteries.
With the staff just needing some finishing work, that left the horns being the next hurdle. First, we made a little cast of her head.
Then quickly sculpted some horns with some plasticine clay.
Followed by a plaster mold of said horns.
Then we cast the horns in latex and stuffed them with cotton balls to keep them nicely formed. Once dried, I cut a slit at the base of the horns and slipped them over another dollar store item in a hair band.
Just now finishing up the staff.
The top was painted with the random blackish mismatch paint I had laying around, then dry brushed the accents with gold.
The bottom, I took advantage of all those borer tracks, stained the wood with walnut, and filled in the borer tracks with more gold.
