Tutorial Tuesday: Horrifying Houseplant Costumes

Okay...all you people, making cute pet costumes...

My pets just won't have it. So i decided to pick on some residents that are slightly more cooperative... and in doing so,
I am going to show that I have more time on my hands
than anyone else in the whole wide world...
Mwah-hahah.

I made costumes for my house plants.
And I made a tutorial too...
(in case you find yourself with a little time to kill.)

The Ferocious Ficus


and

the Rest in Peace Lily

Materials:
Stryrofoam balls, acrylic paints, vampire fangs, crepe paper sheets, pins, floral wire and tape
Tools:
Hot glue gun, knife, wire cutters, scissors

Ferocious Ficus:

• Cut balls in half

• Paint outside green and inside red. Add lips to outside cut edge and let dry
• Cut crepe paper with squiggley edge

• Cut leaves out of darker crepe paper
• Place vampire fangs between halves of painted styrofoam ball

• Pin in place with a straight pin in the back

• Secure fangs with hot glue in the corners

• Use hot glue on the fronts of fangs to create a sappy drool. Let harden.

• Wrap around the outside of the ball with the squiggley crepe paper and hot glue in place.

• Insert floral wire, (1 foot long- bent in half) into the back of the stryofoam ball with an end in each half.
• Secure with hot glue and wrap crepe paper to cover.
• Wrap wire with floral tape.

• Glue on leaves and wrap floral tape to end.

• Wrap wire on tree branch.

Oh, The Horror.

Rest In Peace Lily is just a much larger styrofoam ball, painted like an eye and wrapped with cut crepe paper, hot glued in place. It is anchored with a bamboo skewer.

Look Out!