Lakitu Costume - Super Mario

Okay, today i'm gonna show you how to make a Lakitu costume from Super Mario. We will start with a look on the material to use :

• Snow Carpet
• Hot Glue
• Cardboard or foam
• Big size color paper sheets (Green and White)
• Paint (Red, black)
• Old protection glasses
• Cord
• Fishing rod

The first step is to make the cloud. I took some cardboard that I already had. I rolled up the cardboard to adjust it to my waist size. I glued erverything with hot glue.

Take your fake snow carpet and wrapped it all around your cardboard. You can put effects to your cloud to make "distortion" and not just a cylindrical cloud. (such as 'peaks' on sides like in the picture).

For eyes and mouths, you can either take black paper, cardboard or foam painted. Make a choice.

And as always I used hot glue.

Latiku have "race glasses". The outline of his glasses is black. So, I took old protection glasses and I just draw the outline with a black marker.

To make the shell I tooked the papercraft model of the blue shell in Mario. I cut only the blue part. Before printing, I enlarged this blue part according to my size. I had to print it on multiple pages...I drew the result on my big green paper and I assembled everything.

For the border of the shell (White part) I drew on my white sheet a circle (we can see it on the image).

I took some cord to attach it to my back.

To make the StopLights, I used foam. As you can see, it is simply a rectangle prism with 3 holes. Over the holes, I drew a form on some foam (you can see it in the pictures, not accurate). I cut it and wrapped it around each holes.

I used a hook to attach the line to the stoplights.

An easy and cheap DIY project for everyone. Hope you enjoyed it, any comment is welcome.

- John, from Canada