DIY Sushi & Soy Sauce Costume: 30-Min Cardboard Build
Time30 minEffortEasy
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A white rice tunic with an orange fish sash for one, a dark soy bottle for the other. The condiment duo. Thirty minutes, easy: a white t-shirt or tunic, a dark brown or black t-shirt, and orange felt. The soy bottle should have a label; blank bottles read as cola.
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Tip: the sushi person leans toward the soy bottle in every photo.
Steps
- Buy the felt, paint, and ribbon.
- Pull a white and a dark t-shirt from the closet.
- Sushi: cut an orange felt rectangle, about paperback size.
- Glue it across the chest of the white t-shirt.
- This is the salmon.
- Cut a black felt band 3 inches wide.
- Glue it around the waist over the orange rectangle, like seaweed.
- Soy sauce: cut a tall bottle shape from the cardboard, about 2 feet tall.
- Paint the bottle dark brown.
- Let it dry flat.
- Fold red paper into a cap.
- Tape it to the neck.
- Tape ribbon loops to the top of the bottle.
- Wear it like a sandwich board over the dark t-shirt.
- Safety: Round all cardboard corners with the scissors so nobody gets poked in a crowd.
- Optional pro finish: the sushi person leans toward the soy bottle in every photo.
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Common questions
How do you keep the cardboard bottle from folding?
Use double-wall cardboard from a shipping box, not a cereal box, and keep the bottle under 2 feet tall.
What if the paint is still tacky at party time?
Paint the bottle first and let it dry while you build the sushi. Dark paint needs a full hour on cardboard.
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