How to make an Anglerfish mask

Step 7 Finished!

I didn't have time to put together a proper head support mechanism, despite the fact that I thought long and hard to try to figure out what I was going to do to support it on my head.

I ended up putting a beany on my head to cushion the whole assembly sitting on my head.

I tried making a cardboard ribbing on the inside, but I sweat a lot and the paper started to get pretty damp and disgusting. I just resolved the fact that I wasn't going to wear the mask very often.

The kids loved it tho!

Total cost and parts:
Newsprint: free advert mags from outside of the liquor store - collected over 2 weeks.
starch: 2 bucks
flashlights: 2x 1.00
led chain/LED keychain: 2x1.00
posterboard: 1.00
broken mini-tripod: 1.00

total project cost: approx 8.00+-1 dollar.

Comments

[navionflyer]

Thank you so much for posting this.  My son was an anglerfish in his second grade school production about the earth.  This mask was definitely a hit with him, the other kids and parents.  I did the eyes a little different.  I used a set of white LEDs and taped 7 together in a group and hot glued them in place.  Then I hot glued a half a ping pong ball over the lights.  They turned out really well.  Also, your suggestion for putting a ping pong ball over the lure light was spot on.  There were some other little things I did different because of limited time, but all in all it turned out great.  Thanks again.

[elih]

 i saw an idea for a support system on another instructable
you can hot glue a hard hat to the inside of the fish and then it willsit on your head
you may have to cut off the top of the hardhat for it to fit

[laernmoer]

well, that sounds like it'd work. the problem is getting a hard hat and cutting it. Unless it's a toy, the ABS plastic can be really tough to cut.

Another method could be to put pads of foam on the inside. I saw this on another instructable - use an open celled foam pad glued to the sides and have the foam push against your head.

the open cell will allow the sweat to move (or even wick the sweat away) from your head.

Good luck!

[sortiz04]

this is awesome. I can't wait to do it for my 7 year old son. He chose this as his underwater fish, and I want to duplicate it on a smaller scale. Very cool