Coolest Saturn Costume

by Kristie
(Pittsburgh, PA)

Saturn Costume

Saturn Costume

My 3 year old son is obsessed with space. He spouts off all sorts of facts about the solar system and universe. His favorite planet is Saturn. Of course, he requested a Saturn costume for Halloween.

We took a paper lantern and paper mached it for reinforcement. A hole for the head, a wider one for his body, and two arm holes were cut in it so that it slides on him like a shirt. We painted it with tempura paint. For the rings, we cut them out from a card board box and wrapped them in tin foil. Tempura paint was lightly brushed over them so they still sparkled but had a rainbow effect.

He'll wear black pants and shirt under the costume.

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Coolest Saturn Costume

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Oct 26, 2008
 great idea
by: Nikki

I love original ideas and this is very clever!
Oct 26, 2008
 nice job
by: Anonymous

That's adorable! So creative! You could add glow-in-the-dark stars to his shirt and pants if you wanted.
Jan 26, 2009
 Planet Costume!
by: room mom

OH MY! I wish I were so creative. My 8 yr old is doing a presentation on Saturn and needed a costume. YOU ROCK GIRL!
Apr 05, 2009
 neat
by: Abbey

neat!!!
Aug 14, 2009
 Saturn
by: Chris

Love it, just love it. If you have a large family, you could do the solar system (although that would take a bit of time)!
Aug 19, 2009
 Love this!!
by: Angie

8-18-09 Wanting to know what size of lantern you used and possibly where you purchased it? My 6 yr old loves this and we would like to copy your idea for him this year for Halloween. How hard was it to re-inforce with the paper mache?
Thank you in advance for any help!!
Sep 24, 2009
 Super cool!
by: Tina

My son is 10 and is obsessed with the solar system too! His favorite planet is
Jupiter and, you guessed it he wants to be Jupiter for Halloween! I don't think it'll look as clever as Saturn (because it doesn't have rings)but I will give it a shot. Wish me luck!

Thanks for the great idea.
Oct 13, 2009
 great idea
by: Anonymous

that was such an great idea so great that I thought of that for my child project but just don't know where to start. Where did you get a lantern that big. Please please let me know
Oct 17, 2009
 Thanks for sharing your picture
by: Space Mom arianne.net

My son wanted to be Jupiter, but I couldn't figure out how to do it, so he was a penguin (next best thing). He's 4 now and insists on Mercury (narcissistic first planet boy)

This year we are trying a "strong paper mache technique" on an Ikea paper lantern as well. If it fails, then we will use a large beach ball with resist to release it. There is a recipe from a guy that does armor using paper mache with wood glue. Our friends were afraid it would be too heavy for my 90% kid, but he's only Mercury!

Our plan is to use egg carton to help with making craters, acrylic paint (silver) with some glitter for pizzaz.

I was surprised to find your beautiful boy in a perfect Saturn costume. What a joy!

This will be the largest planet I've made by hand. We counted 14 different solar systems, even plastic fruit becomes a system.

Best wishes from another mother of a planet boy,

Fellow Space Mom Arianne
Oct 28, 2009
 My husband said that it couldn't be done!
by: Another Planet-Boy Mom

And then I found your son's costume to show him. We'd gone back 'n forth until I did a search for paper lanterns online and stumbled on your posting. Of course I had to call my husband over to take a look. He was eating crow. Last year I sewed a Saturn costume from felt for our son. It turned out okay, people sometimes recognized it, sometimes not.

I picked up the 23.5" lantern from Ikea; brought out my box of acrylic paints, also picked up a couple of colors on sale from the craft store; tore paper; hung the lantern on the clothesline; used white glue/water first, then for the last coat of papier mache I used Mod Podge; had our 4 yr old paint the base color and then the stripes; for painting we used a large glass bowl to stabilize the costume, and we'll be putting the final touches today with glitter and a few suspended styrofoam moons he painted (he loves the moons).

Our son is having a blast painting his costume. He can't wait to get the glitter and moons on. It's not very heavy, but sturdy and think enough. He was lifting the papier mached lantern with one hand yesterday, from the wire hanger.

I'd post a pic, but don't know how.

Thanks for sharing your idea.
Sheila
San Diego

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