Multiple Stab wound Costume for Under $5

I had to think of a quick, subtle and cheap costume to wear to work for Halloween this year, and came up with this idea. I work as a counsellor at a University, and wanted to try and integrate work into my costume. While looking around the office I noticed that I had tons of departmental pens laying around and thought: 'how cool would it be it is looked like one of my students disagreed with my advice and took the liberty of forcing a handful of pens through my chest?'

In total this costume took about an hour to make and only cost me about $5.00 and came out really nice. I found it easy to move around in, and I hope my students find it amusing.

This Instructable can be modified in many ways to suit your personal preference and environment. I hope you enjoy.

Step 1 Materials

The Materials for this project are very easy to find, and most can be found in your house or place of work.

One white Tee-Shirt (Free)
One white or light coloured dress shirt ($3.99 at thrift shop)
Instruments of pain (Free)
Piece of cardboard (Free)
Fake Blood ($1.00)
Hot glue (Free)
Sewing kit (Free)
Dremmel or hand saw (Free)
Scissors (Free)
Black pen (Free)

It is important to note that a light coloured shirt works best as you can see the blood much better. This would have little effect if you used a black or dark shirt.

Comments

[CaseBoy]

i am thinking of doing this with pencils

[hackerlife]

 Hey man!
I just did this for my costume and it turned out great!
(the pens did not last through the zombie battles, however ;-) )
I also neglected to actually READ  the instructable, and I'm sure I would have saved my self some time and effort if i had
+1

[hackerlife]

Hey, I'm planning on doing this tomorrow for halloween, it looks great!
I want to go as a "corporate zombie"
Does anyone have any idea of how I could attatc a stapler to my chest as well?
Great 'ible

[deofthedead]

Haha, yes. Awesome. Some of my coworkers and I are being Walmart employee zombies for halloween this year, in torn up versions of our uniforms and everything. I think I shall certainly incorporate this. muaha. You rock.

[soulcalibur]

here's my version:

[scooter76]

Well done

[soulcalibur]

thanks

[soulcalibur]

i'm in the procesof making this. it's taken so long because i used some yellow adhesive glue instead of a hot glue gun. took a whole night for it to dry. yeat, i only glued one of the pencils on, to test it, which means i have the rest to go. i'll try and post it sometime.

[Kill_Roy]

Thats really cool good job!

[cowscankill]

*Ideas fly around me*

[St Andy]

Sweet and easy, well done

[scooter76]

thanks

[super-random]

cool! but would green blood work?

[scooter76]

Maybe if you were some tyoe of alien under that shirt. However, green blood would look really cool