Halloween 2016:
My insane kids picked really difficult costumes this year. Daughter wanted to be a jar of Nutella, son wanted to be a Lego guy.
How the fuck do you build those? lol
We went to the local Re-Use Centre (Canuckster, have you been? Its great) and scrounged for anything we could find that might resemble the parts we needed... I totally scored on the Lego head; we found some kind of kitchen mixer thing where the bowl looked almost exactly like a Lego head. It even had a bump on the top!
We measured where the eyes would go, and masked them off using some round stickers, then spray-painted the whole thing yellow.
When it dried, I used black marker ans white-out to paint a face on it. The eyes were still transparent and lined up perfectly with my son's eyes:
Body we went a little cheaper, just a cardboard frame, spraypainted, white-out tie:
Daughters was also hard but we managed it. Cut the bottom off a plastic trash-bin and spray-painted it brown. Photoshopped the logo and printed it on paper (I actually do a lot of illustration work for Nutella so I have hi-res logos in my computer). I don't remember what the lid was made from, some rubber thing we found at the re-use center. My daughter thought it was too big and floppy but she was a good sport about it and we thought it still turned out pretty funny.
