The Story Behind the Costume

Every year, my Mom's work has a halloween costume contest. While she was looking through our old costume truck, she noticed that all of the costumes smelt like mothballs. Jokingly, she told me that she thought would be funny to dress up as a mothball.

Being someone who loves to make costumes, I accepted this challenge, but with a twist. Instead of turning her into a mothball, I decided to made her into a defective mothball. This means instead of repelling moths, it attracts moths. Hence, a defective mothball.

Step 1: Supplies for Making a Defective Mothball

~ 2 Cardboard boxes

~ Card Stock and Printer

~ Head Band

~ Cutting Board and X-acto Knife

~ Scissors

~ 3 Bags of Cotton Balls (instead of actual mothballs)

~ Hot Glue Gun and Glue

~ String

~ Spray Paint

~ White Tape

~ Black Permanent Marker

Step 2: Making the Moths

I started out by printing out pictures of a moth onto card stock paper. Then, I cut them out using an x-acto knife. In total, I made nine moths.

The moth image I used: http://www.warrenphotographic.co.uk/photography/bi...

Step 3: The Moth Head Band

Next, I hot glued one moth to the head band. Then, I cut another moth in half and glued the wings together to cover up the white paper.

Step 4: The Mothball Box

Next, using an x-acto knife, I cut off the bottom of the box, leaving an inch of cardboard around the edge. Then I cut armholes on both sides of the box.

Step 5: The Top of the Box

I then traced the top of the box onto another piece of cardboard. After cutting that out, I then cut out another shape that would eventually become the head hole (look at the picture above).