Box of Wine Costume

Looking for an Epic but Easy costume to make for Halloween? The Box of Wine Halloween Costume will make you the life of the party...LITERALLY. This costume is a fully functional wine dispenser. Just turn the spout and you've got drinks for the whole party!

You can make this costume in a day and best of all the cost is approx. $15-$20, depending on what materials you have it could be more or less.

*******************CHALLENGE*******************
I have received lots of great feedback and messages from people who want to make this costume!! So I am running a challenge for anyone who plans on making this costume for Halloween. All you need to do is COMMENT on this Instructable with an IMAGE of you WEARING YOUR VERSION OF THIS COSTUME and a SMALL BLURB about how you put this costume together and some stories on the reactions you got when you wore it.

PRIZES - EVERYONE who enters will receive a free 3-month PRO-MEMBERSHIP. One lucky winner chosen by me will receive an Instructables Prize pack which includes: Instructables t-shirt, 1 year pro-membership, and Instructables stickers and patch.

TIMELINE - You have until November 7th to enter for the Instructables Prize Pack.  I will continue to give 3-month pro-memberships to anyone who comments even after November 7.

Step 1: Materials

Materials and Tools

1. Cardboard: cut two pieces that are 36" x 24" and one piece that is 20" x 16"
2. Cardboard: a few extra pieces for structural reinforcement
3. Paper - 28 sheets for printing, approx. 20 for other stuff
4. Glue Gun
5. Staple Gun
6. Color Printer
7. Scissors
8. Paper Cutter - if you don't have one you can use scissors, but it is helpful when you are printing out your graphics
9. Tape - clear scotch tape
10. X-acto Knife
11. Yardstick
12. Pencil

Comments

[nathanjshaffer]

Great idea! But there is one thing that would make it a perfect last minute costume. PDFs... They always print at the same size for everyone. It took my neighbor and i about 20 minutes to construct the box and then went to kinkos do print. But we ended up spending an hour trying to get the jpegs to print at the right size using their crappy software. We ended up ditching the idea lest we miss out on the festivities. Otherwise, great instructiable!

[crlp]

It says that you also added the .jpg image if you dont have photoshop and I unfortunately dont have photoshop so I can't print the images. Can someone guide me to where those are?

[shmang]

you can download the files and use online file conversion. i used go2convert.com and converted them to .jpeg

[cryptex]

your first photo looks wrong

[Carleyy]

CONGRATS TO: He11uvaCook for winning the BOX OF WINE CHALLENGE

I want to thank everyone who participated! I'm really impressed with how your costumes came out and SUPER flattered that you liked the costume enough to make it! This definitely inspired me to start running more challenges like this on other projects.

Because all the entries were so awesome I'm giving everyone a 1 year pro-membership! You will receive a PM letting you know how to redeem your pro-membership.

I included some pictures of my friend Alana wearing the box of wine I made on Halloween night. You can see me in some of the pictures (I'm Xena - Instructable coming soon).

CHEERS!!
Carleyy

[Carleyy]

Winners!

[Easycustoms]

I made the costume and it came out great! The only tip I have to offer is to drink some of the wine from the bag. 5 liters gets heavy after a few hours.

[Carleyy]

A box of wine drinking a box of wine. AWESOME!

[kmarin1]

Double trouble! Made one for me, and one for the wife!
Had fun making this AWESOME costume....got lots of complements....
I basically used the same files to change the hue for the red color, and just edited the name of the wines ( La Rubia "Blondie", and Matador Red).
Everything worked according to the specs!
Cheers!

[Carleyy]

Didn't think of this as a couples costume, but it definitely works!! I love the picture of you and your wife on the dance floor!

[bnwarthan]

SO much fun with my costume! Very heavy at first though, much better after giving out drinks : )

[Carleyy]

What did you use to secure the wine bag?

[mighkey]

I am not too artistically inclined and had some issues. But i was a huge hit around the neighborhood. I have had requests to wear it every year. I may install a cup holder. Also, i placed the spout on the side to make it more authentic, so as not to make women uncomfortable and because there was already a hole in that side. I heard a lot of "best costume ever" and "hey your leg smells like wine" I may be "Christmas box o9f wine guy" and "Easter box of wine guy" Maybe I will rent me out for weddings. I actually had a few people ask where they can buy a box of wine that size....

[Carleyy]

I love that you wore this around for the parents - they deserve to have their own 'treats'. I totally understand the need to PG the costume for the ladies. Looks awesome!

[jsdrulia]

It only took me a few hours to make this (with the help of the images already done from this instructable). Everyone loved it! I went as 'Snooki's ultimate accessory - vino'. I "classed" it up by choosing the Franzia Chablis instead...

[Carleyy]

Fist pumping Box of Wine style!

[Gambit510]

Me and my brother made it, we had some a few setbacks with our printer but we figured it all out and had to keep in the gray edges on the pictures but it still looked great. Everyone that saw it thought it was hilariously awesome. My brother said when he wore it that everyone was slapping the box before they would take a drink. This picture is after he had been partying in it all night, so it got a little ruffed up.

[Carleyy]

Looks like you and your brother had a pretty awesome halloween by the looks of the box!

[He11uvaCook]

I mentioned this little project at work and they allowed me to print it on our 4-foot plotter in high-res full-color on beautiful paper! I mounted it to foam-core w/ spray adhesive, then taped it to the shoulder-mounts! I cut a hole in the front for the spigot, then hung the box o' wine from my neck w/ a luggage strap! I would advise removing half of the wine from the box to lighten the load on your neck because my neck was killing me the next day! Other than that, the costume was a huge hit! We're now planning a Tour de Franzia Party wherein this costume will be worn while we play Slap the Bag, and drink from a wide selection of the World's Most Popular Wine!

Note: I recessed the sides of the box so that I could bend my arms at the elbows because the front is just larger than 30 X 30 inches. I couldn't even reach my own spigot, but people didn't hesitate (much) to serve themselves!! What a blast this costume was!!

[Carleyy]

Thanks for letting us know how you modified the box.

I hope to see an instructable on 'How To Throw a Tour de Franzia Party' soon!!

[He11uvaCook]

Here are a few more pics that show the construction of this costume a little better!

[Carleyy]

Thanks to everyone who entered my BOX OF WINE Challenge!! I will review your posts today and announce my decision tomorrow.

Cheers!!
Carleyy

[zachishi]

This costume was awesome. The laughter from people was pretty ridiculous when we dispensed the wine. The wife went as the wine box and i went as a wine sommelier.

Putting everything together was fairly easy one it was cut out.

[Carleyy]

Your wife looks so cute in the box! I love it!!

[teosborne]

I also had great success with this costume. Mine is red wine :). I scanned the Franzia box and printed the entire label as a single sheet on a poster printer, which resulted in a very high quality costume. It was a hit at the Halloween party.

[tedtakes5]

Challenge accepted

[sebacoraje]

The Halloween i was supposed to is postponed.
So more time to make a costume, I think I give this a try!

[rick.leasure]

Oh my! I'm glad the wine isn't yellow!

[Carleyy]

*************CHALLENGE*************

I have received lots of great feedback and messages from people who want to make this costume!! So I am running a challenge for anyone who plans on making this costume for Halloween.

All you need to do is COMMENT on this Instructable with an IMAGE of you WEARING YOUR VERSION OF THIS COSTUME and a SMALL BLURB about how you put this costume together and some stories on the reactions you got when you wore it.

PRIZES - EVERYONE who enters will receive a free 3-month PRO-MEMBERSHIP. One lucky winner chosen by me will receive an Instructables Prize pack which includes: Instructables t-shirt, 1 year pro-membership, and Instructables stickers and patch.

[Downoninit]

Wow, its a Wine-Os dream come true......

[midsummermuse]

EPIC WIN HERE FOLKS!!! Love it, I had that idea but no plan to implement it (I would probably start with a box and a sharpie >_<) and that fanny pack idea is great so you don't hurt your back carrying it. Not that it will last long at a party though! ^_^

[ScottEdwards33]

awesome. I am changing my costume this year. why I didnt think of it first? sweet

[Lehaha]

Good god, this lady's a genius! I want to use a different brand of wine though - anyone have any ideas about how to make/find a big graphic file?

[CobaltBlue]

Just take your product to Kinko's. They can scan the box [better than a pocket camera would do] then they can print the enlargement on one piece of really big paper.
Of course, your Kinko's may vary!

[Lehaha]

Oh, that's a good idea too!!

[Carleyy]

I actually took the image myself. I used my camera and put it on the highest resolution setting to get the largest image possible.

And I'm so happy you like the costume!!

[Lehaha]

Aaaahhh. See? Genius. Thank you!

[BtheBike]

Urolagnia .. Giggity =D

[AmyLuthien]

Adding the spigot was pure genius!!! :D

[mikeasaurus]

Awesome costume, and the spigot placement isn't weird at all.