Generic Superhero Costume (Captain Pinata).

Step 6 The Final Suit

There you go!

A friend took this photo for me at the Cub party, with two suitably anonymous Cubs.

I'm quite proud to say that my costume was the only home-made outfit there.

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If you try something like this yourself, there are a couple of things to remember:

• Leave yourself more time than I did - I was forced to glue the logo onto the breastplate when it was itself still wet. It doesn't show in this photo, but some of the blue and green colour bled through into the yellow.
• Watch for visibility - I could see fine forwards and down, but side-to-side was a bit poor (not good if I'd been out in the streets, crossing roads). I also got caught out vertically - I found I couldn't see the flag at the evening's opening Howl.
• Crepe paper is not water resistant, and the apple-bobbing cost me half a sleeve.
• It is very flammable - lots of loose layers of paper - so be careful if you are planning to be Captain Pinata in a room full of candle-lit decorations.

That last point has decided the fate of Captain Pinata.