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

My son wanted to be a robot for Halloween, so I looked on your sight to get a few idea’s and went at it and made my own Homemade Riley Robot 9000 Costume. I went to the store and got some boxes, used some sink drains for his eye’s, some bowls for his ears, painted … 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 is the best Homemade Voice Modulated Robot Halloween Costume ever! My husband made this costume for my 6 year old son. He took apart my son’s Tranformer’s voice-changer toy helmet, so that he can talk like a real robot. The very top of the robot (the “antenna”) was a baby food bowl and bubble … Read more

My 3-year-old son said he wanted to be a robot for Halloween, so I knew I was going to have to make a homemade Robot kids Halloween costume. Wastebasket body, dryer vent arms and legs, custom cardboard head, plastic cup ears, and LED battery-powered Xmas lights from Target, with white plastic leg caps from Home … Read more

Once our 5 yr old son found out that his sister was making her costume with Dad he wanted to make one too. And since he is obsessed with robots of course that is what he wanted to be. They worked for several weeks on this robot costume. It’s made of boxes and duct tape … Read more

For the last couple of years, my son has asked me to make him a robot Halloween costume. This year he even drew a sketch for me and he insisted on the traditional cardboard box body. Since I knew it wouldn’t be very comfortable or practical, I always talked him into something else. I finally … Read more

This Homemade Child Robot Costume is made for my son Louis for his 7th birthday and inspired by “the iron giant”. It needed to have this “knight-out-of-space” impression. Two different types of silver material are used (tungsten and alloy). The material is glued to 20mm foam used for upholstery. The silver material is see-through and … Read more

This Robot Costume started when my 4 1/2 year old son said, mom I want to be a robot for Halloween. After going to countless costume stores trying to persuade him to change his mind I finally gave in and decided to make him his robot costume. I started with spray painting and finding boxes … Read more

I never thought making a costume would be this fun. My 4 yr old wanted to be a robot , so I granted him his wish. MATERIALS: 2 boxes, 2 soap bottle caps, 2 pipe cleaners, 2 reflectors, silver wrapping paper, dial printouts, glue, duct-tape. Some imagination voila! You’re done. Wow that was fun!

My son wanted to be a hi-tech robot Halloween costume this year, and it had to have a shrink ray. So my husband and I worked out an idea and did all the clever measuring that was necessary. He constructed the body parts and I decorated. We make a pretty good team. We just used … Read more