Halloween: DIY Guardians of the Galaxy Costumes

We are Groot! This Halloween, we dressed up as characters from the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Yondu, Gamora & Groot! (Why Yondo, not Star Lord? Cuz Yondu is easily the more well developed character with more depth!)

Apart from a whole lot of face & body paint and dramatic make up, here is how I went about the crafty DIY bits:

Groot:

For the Mask, I used this very helpful tutorial. 

1. I cut out the mouth and eyes from a mask 
2. Glued craft sticks over the forehead 
3. Glued straws one by one vertically over the mask
4. Glued some green mossy stuff (from pipe cleaners) on the top of the mask
5. Finally, glued cheap brown glasses on the eyes of the mask
6. For the Groot body, I simply hot glued a crap load of brown paper on one of his old, never to be used again track suit. 

Yondo’s headfin:

1. I first make a rough one with rough paper to get the shape right (every head is different!) 
2. then finally used a material that was something between a cardboard sheet (I couldn’t find one thick enough) and styrofoam (you can’t paint over). Needed a pen knife/exacto knife to carve the shape out. I glued 4 head fins together to get the required thickness.
3. I cut out various shapes to glue on the sides to get the look
4. Finally, I painted it all over with rich metallic red paint. 
5. I used eyelash glue to keep it glued over my husbands head! 

I did the DIY stuff ahead of time, only to leave the face & body painting to be done that evening. We felt like movie stars with everyone taking our pictures!! Yes all parents who'd come with their kids to trick or treat and random people on the street on our way to the Halloween party asking us to pose with them! 

All in all, good fun!

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