Project: Make an astronaut costume
My husband made his own astronaut costume for Halloween
It’s obviously too late to make this costume for Halloween this year, but I had to wait for the finishing touches on this astronaut costume to post about it. Because it’s so awesome that it has to be posted.
My husband, lately on a historic moon walk and Apollo 13 kick, decided to be an astronaut for Halloween. He even hauled home a giant library book on American astronauts to study their space suits. This is what he’s been working on the past two weeks.
First, he started with a used white jumpsuit from eBay. He decided to make himself a commander, so I helped him add red webbing around his arms and legs with glue. He stitched on some patches.
Sew on American flag and NASA patches
Yes, he did it himself.
Then he wanted to add some hose nozzles to the front of the jumpsuit, so he made some things that look like gears by making a mold out of our son’s toy, using PlayDoh (another of our kids’ things).
Surround a toy gear with PlayDoh to make a mold for more gears
Some paint and a sprinkler coupler fit into the middle of the gear later made it look more authentic.
It's an astronaut gear!
He attached the gears to the jumpsuit with Velcro.
Making a space helmet was a challenge. My husband turned to eBay again and bought an acrylic lamp globe.
The astronaut helmet is a lamp globe
He cut off the end of the globe and attached a painted embroidery hoop for the neck.
A large embroidery hoop painted silver makes the helmet neck ring
Then he taped one side of the globe and painted the back.
The helmet has to be painted, to protect your melon from the harmful space rays
He wasn’t able to wear the helmet for more than a minute at a time because, you know, there’s no real air pumping into it. He could have cut a hole in the front of the helmet, but that wouldn’t have been authentic enough, I guess.
Ski boots and ski gloves rounded out the astronaut costume.
Everyone we know thought it was awesome! If only he’d entered a costume contest … he might have won for Best DIY!
No telling what he will come up with for next year….
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Pretty cool costume!
Thank you! I think it really looked great, and I was impressed with what he used to make it.
VERY creative and cute!
Thank you! He had a lot of fun with it.
Very Cool, Good job Tropic Hubs!
I will tell him you said so!
OMG Holly, that is such an amazing costume. Kudos to both of you for a fantastic job!
Thank you! He’s really a detail guy and very creative.