ECOWEEN: Cardboard Box iPod Costume
ECOWEEN: Cardboard Box iPod Costume
If your lil one is a music fan, or is used to seeing you attached to your iPod, you may want to re-consider throwing away the box when your next package arrives. With a lil paint, minimal artistic talent and a few supplies you will find around your home, you can easily create an iPod costume for your budding music man.
Supplies you will need:
- Medium-sized cardboard box
- Red and gray paint (the Livos Salis finger paints can be diluted with a little water to make them paintbrush accessible)
- Box cutter
- Poster board
- Rubber cement or glue
- Plastic wrap
- Tape
- Supplies for your iPod costume.
- First, cut the box down to the appropriate size for your child. It should end around their knees. Then cut a circle out of the
- Next, paint the entire box the color of your lil one's favorite iPod.
- Next, cut a large circle out of a sheet of poster board or construction paper. Cut a smaller hole out of the center.
- Paint the arrows and words found on the iPod dial on your circle.
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- Supplies for your iPod costume.
- First, cut the box down to the appropriate size for your child. It should end around their knees. Then cut a circle out of the
- Next, paint the entire box the color of your lil one's favorite iPod.
- Next, cut a large circle out of a sheet of poster board or construction paper. Cut a smaller hole out of the center.
- Paint the arrows and words found on the iPod dial on your circle.
- Next, cut a square, with rounded corners out of a piece of poster board. The square should be about one inch narrower than the
- Once the paint has dried, cover the square with plastic wrap to simulate the iPod screen.
- Next, apply glue or rubber cement to the back of the "dial" and the "screen".
- Afix the "dial" and "screen" to the body of the iPod.
- Finally, paint the Apple/iPod logo on the back of the box.
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