Kirby Halloween Costume

First, the inspiration. Second, the result:

Each one took about 3 hours to make and costed about $10 in glue and spray paint; we already had the acrylic paints, markers, and tape, and pilfered newspapers and grocery store flyers from the complex's mail room recycling.

Materials

• Yoga ball
• A few plastic bags (enough to cover the ball)
• Transparent school tape
• Liquid school glue
• Newspapers/grocery store flyers
• Water
• Bowl
• Spray paint (for main Kirby color)
• Acrylic paints (blue, black, and white for eyes, pink and red for mouth, and whichever color necessary for cheeks)
• Scissors
• (optional): paper for templates
• (optional): permanent marker for outlines

Instructions

1. Inflate a yoga ball to your desired size
2. Tear garbage bag seams to flatten them, and tape them to the outside of the yoga ball, except at the valve (leave that exposed). Make sure it isn't very strong tape, as we want it to come apart relatively easy later (school transparent tape works well)
3. Tear grocery store flyers/newspapers into strips. We found no more than 9-ish inches long and 3 wide worked well for us. Make sure you have a reasonable sized pile ready before continuing
4. Mix equal parts school glue and water in a bowl
5. One-by-one, dip torn strips into the glue-water mixture, remove excess mixture by pinching both sides with the length of your thumb and finger and running it down, then apply to the garbage bag-covered yoga ball. Repeat until the entire yoga ball is covered, except for the valve of the ball. Make sure to smooth down any bumps in the paper mache
6. Give the ball enough time to dry (we were able to do two layers in a single day when we had hot and dry weather)
7. Repeat steps 5-6 two more times for a total of three dry paper mache layers
8. Unplug the yoga ball and deflate. Since the plastic bags are probably a little taped to the ball, and the paper mache is stuck to the bags, the paper mache may try to deflate with the ball a little. You can put your arm inside the orb to unstick the bags from the yoga ball
9. Widen the hole around the valve with scissors so that it fits your waist. Create a whole on the other side with scissors large enough to fit your head
10. Spray paint the orb the colour of choice of your Kirby. We barely had enough in a single can to cover the smaller pink Kirby, and not enough to cover the larger yellow Kirby. Let dry
11. (optional) Apply another layer. Let dry
12. Paint on eyes, mouth, and cheeks. We found it easier to cut outlines for these out of paper, place them like we want on the orb using tape, then paint the outline, before removing the paper outlines and painting in the eyes, mouth, and cheeks
13. Trace outline of eyes and mouth with permanent marker (or paint)
14. (optional) Arm holes? We didn't add any, it just made it more entertaining when we tried to eat/drink/do anything at all
15. Enjoy!