Coolest Homemade Cardboard Wall E Halloween Costume Idea

We have built this costume from a packing box, acrylic paint, apple sauce cups, packing foam and few LEDs. All held together by a pile of hot glue. There was no plan. Entire Homemade Cardboard Wall E Halloween Costume Idea was a pure improvisation. But it turned out fine. It took about 2 weekends. Building together is fun.

The body is simply a right-size box. The threads are cardboard cut outs wrapped around with, you guessed, cardboard (note: cardboard bends easier one way). So is the head – except we made it fit with a closed-cell packing foam from a computer or what not. Eyes are apple-sauce cups (2 per eye). The blue LEDs are powered by a single AA (I made a simple Joule Thief circuit to boost the voltage but you can just use a 9V battery). The hands are again cardboard with finger-straps made of cardboard. They also have a rubber band to hold them around elbow.

Since the costume is restricting moves the “candy collection” was a problem. We have solve it by adding a “lunch-box” in the back.

It was a hit at our local Halloween outpost.