Our daughter loves to make things out of boxes. This inspired her to want to be a toy robot for Halloween this year. We let her pick out the color, and painted the boxes with craft paint. We added rivets around the border with metallic paint. We had fun finding gauges which we encased in … Read more

The Homemade Vintage Style Robot Costume is made from cardboard. Eyes are LED cylon/flashing bike safety lights ($1 each), dials/gauges are printed images from Google Images, warning labels made @ TXT2PIC.com, flashing antennae on top is a headband light “bobber” (6 for $1). Also used a $3 MP3 player with built in speaker (obsolete JuiceBox … Read more

My son wanted to be a robot for Halloween. So my husband and son began creating their masterpiece. They decided to make the Robot Costume from duct tape, cardboard boxes, dryer duct, insulated bubble wrap, and accented with reflectors and lights. They started with the body by laying duct tape in strips and laying a … Read more

So, I initially created this Homemade Robot Costume to use at shows and what not. However, a costume party offering 1000 bucks soon allowed me the ability to recoup my fundage on the thing. It won. My friend Ashton from “Out the Box” took it up there for me while I was at a show … Read more

This Homemade Robot Halloween Costume is an original design whose form was largely suggested by the materials we worked with. It was inspired in a general way by classic B-movie robots and George Eisner’s gorgeous illustrations for the Gang of Five tin toy repro packaging. My six-year-old son, Declan, also helped guide the design with … Read more

For this homemade robot Halloween costume I used cardboard boxes, spray painted silver. Dryer ducting was used for the arms and legs and CDs for eyes.

This homemade robot Halloween costume idea was based on a 1950’s genre. I have included a small box on the front of the robot with a voice changer to make me sound like a robot and many sound effects. There were several lights all over my robot costume. On the top I have a bowl … Read more

My daughter wanted to be a ‘Light Up Robot’ so that’s what we did! We went as a group, but you can make the kid robot, adult robot or mad scientist for the individual. Basically, her Homemade Light-Up Robot Costume is a silver, spray painted plastic container (head) and garbage bin (body). HEAD: My husband … Read more

This website was such a wonderful resource for our family this Halloween. Words cannot describe my feelings of the potential for parenting inadequacy when my adorable, gentle seven year old son announced “I would like to be a robot this Halloween, please”. The robot costume, at first, seemed like an insurmountable task. Thanks to all … Read more

This Rusted Robot Costume started out as the ABC Robot from Judge Dredd. I started making the head first and I was close working from memory only. Then I looked him up and my jaw was a little wider than Ithought to make the upper supports but I tried and the coloring was a combination … Read more

I went to a taping of ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ the TV show. For the show you have to dress up, so I decided to do something unique and created this homemade robot with lights costume. Materials: – silver spray paint – foam boards(body) – silver duct tape – Baskin Robbins ice cream bucket – … Read more