Halloween LED Firefly Costume

Last year we asked our sons what they wanted to be for Halloween and they both wanted to be fireflies so of course that was what they were going to be. It went without saying that they had to light up so my wife started working on the costume and I worked on the lights. Of course there wasn't much time until Halloween so it had to be pretty quick and easy.

Step 1 Light

For each costume I started with a cheap high powered LED flashlight and took out the LED assembly.

Comments

[sthomas2216]

Could you include how your wife made the costume?

[RobHopeless]

The rest of the costume is black sweatpants, a long sleeve black shirt and a wool hat with wire wrapped with sparkly ribbon for antennae. The shirt has 2 extra cotton stuffed sleeves with gloves sewn on for the extra legs. The red part is just a short vest shape with wings sewn on to it. The wings are a black mesh material cut into a wing shape then a thin wire is run around the edge and held in place with hot glue or tape. Then a wide ribbon or strip of cloth is sewn around the edge covering the wire (you could probably use iron-on adhesive tape). The bag with the light in it is attached to the inside for the shirt with some stick on Velcro so that it could come off when they needed to sit down. Hopefully that will get you started, let me know if you have any more questions and we would love to see it when you are done.

[sthomas2216]

What type of Styrofoam shape did you use?

[RobHopeless]

I put a picture of the shape in the last step of the instructable. The styrofoam I had was about 1 1/2" thick but whatever you can find should be fine.

[ybedull]

Ok so this is just too freaking cute!

[sthomas2216]

I want to make one for my granddaughter, she is 19 months, i think this would be CUTE for her. She would love to play with the switch.

[caitlinsdad]

High low-tech. I like it.

[ChrysN]

That's really cute. Also a great safety feature for going out on Halloween night.