In honor of swine flu season, here is a project for all those face masks!
Usually I am pretty good at planning for Halloween, it being my favorite holiday, but on occasion I have to throw something together last minute. This was the case last year when I took an extra face-mask I had hanging around to make a quick costume! By re-using things around the house this project is cheap and easy on the environment. The skill level required is low, ranging from kindergartner with marker to amateur seamstress/tailor and the final product is a cute and comfortable Halloween mask.
Usually I am pretty good at planning for Halloween, it being my favorite holiday, but on occasion I have to throw something together last minute. This was the case last year when I took an extra face-mask I had hanging around to make a quick costume! By re-using things around the house this project is cheap and easy on the environment. The skill level required is low, ranging from kindergartner with marker to amateur seamstress/tailor and the final product is a cute and comfortable Halloween mask.
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Face-mask: you can use anything from the nicer cotton ones people wear all over Asia to the ones used in hospitals or even the paper-like ones used in construction and painting.
Eye-mask: The ones for traveling are the kind I have in mind - there always seems to be one somewhere in the back of a cupboard that came from some international flight's complimentary toiletry bag.
Permanent markers are ideal if you plan on drawing, but all I had to use was the cheapest quality water-soluble kind, and my mask still came out all right. No matter what there will probably be a little bit of bleeding around the edges, so don't try to draw anything too detailed.
Material Scraps of any kind will work, depending on what you want to make. Nylon is especially useful for eye-masks
Eye-mask: The ones for traveling are the kind I have in mind - there always seems to be one somewhere in the back of a cupboard that came from some international flight's complimentary toiletry bag.
Permanent markers are ideal if you plan on drawing, but all I had to use was the cheapest quality water-soluble kind, and my mask still came out all right. No matter what there will probably be a little bit of bleeding around the edges, so don't try to draw anything too detailed.
Material Scraps of any kind will work, depending on what you want to make. Nylon is especially useful for eye-masks
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I couldn't find a sleeping mask so I used an old clarinet cleaner and a some felt, some hot glue, a hat i had and some sharpies. Its not done.
Any suggestions? Is it possible to make one (though I think buying one would be easier than getting the elastic string part...)?
Otherwise you could just make the mask and find some kind of thin elastic band to use for the ear strings. It might actually be easier to find black material instead of sewing on top of the mask material, you could also size it to your face better. It shouldn't be too tricky.
Just eye mask: Unsettling.
Face mask with eye mask: Straddling the line between cute and terrifying.
Love this.
uh, Don't use markers (esp. Permanent) - The toxic smell NEVER goes away. LOL
I love this idea, got a few additions ideas but would love to know how you did that.
Thanks!
And I didn't bother slitting the gray material, I just cut it in two, lengthwise. I then tucked the edges under and pinned it on top of the teeth and black face mask.
I will try to add a few more photos to make it more clear.
The dog, on the other hand, is excessively cute (though the floppy fringe and floppier dog-ear-hoodie help).