Coolest Tornado Costume

by Rob Church
(Plymouth Mi USA)

Homemade Tornado Costume

Homemade Tornado Costume

I came up with this Tornado Costume because of my daughter's un-ending energy we call her "Hurricane Kelly" and since a hurricane would be very difficult to properly portray I gave her the tornado option.

I made the framework for this from a decreasing helix of thin wire fencing then chicken wire all trimmed and rounded (to avoid the pokeys) then wrapped the framework in Halloween spiderwebbing.
Gray helical spray paint give the "spinning" look and adjustable sports bag straps over her shoulders give the right position.
I used mini LED "rice" lights to enhance the spin look at night and miniature fence railing/cows/etc.from a hobby store to make the "debris".

On Halloween night her mom put white streaks in her hair and made it stand up in all directions.

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Coolest Tornado Costume

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Aug 24, 2009
Wow, cool!!
by: Melody

This is one of the best costumes I have seen so far and at little expense. Great job!!!

Oct 07, 2009
Wow! this is the one!
by: cristinella

This is exactly what I want to do for my son! He hopes to be a tornado for Halloween. I am going to follow your design...as much as possible!

Thanks!!!


Oct 14, 2009
cool
by: Anonymous

I love this! how imaginative!

Oct 18, 2009
Awesome!
by: Anonymous

Our department at work is going with a Wizard of Oz theme, and I was trying to think of how I would execute the tornado. Great ideas here - far better than the others I saw online that consisted only of items attached with string to a grey sweatsuit.

Oct 29, 2009
How to take this costume a step fruther
by: Linda

I have done this but took it a step further. I took small childrens plastic toys like cars, cows, and tied them with about a 6 inch length of fishing line, and sewed them onto the tornado in random order. Then you spin around and all of the objects would spin out away from them like they were spinning out of the tornado.

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