As Halloween approaches, the Mario/Luigi costume for Noah is complete. However, his goodie basket was in shambles. So my creative wife decided to take up the task of creating a new basket for him. She wanted to use an old Spiderman head basket and construct a turtle shell over it. So to Hobby Lobby she goes, buys some foam paper, a Styrofoam ring and below is the result.
Side view of the basket. She cut each pattern out and taped on over the original basket. She tried the foam paper glue, but it sucked.
Top-side view.
Front view. The turtle head hole was designated as the right place to throw all the candy in. The black handle that you see sticking out is part of the original basket, which will help Noah a lot in carrying this thing around.
Bottom view. Again, she cuts the pattern out and tapes it.
To be honest, what she described to me on what she wanted to do with the materials she got, I thought it was going to turn out bad. But I was wrong. Never doubt my wife again, especially when she's pretty much the creative and artsy one in the family.
And Noah's reaction? Two thumbs up.
