Create an iPod Nano Halloween Costume

With far more than one hundred million iPods offered given that 2002, Apple continues to thrill songs junkies with standard updates to the most common mp3 player in the planet. With the release of the Nano, buyers have been handled to a more compact, slimmer system in an remarkable array of shades. With its smooth layout and straightforward handle panel, iPod the Nano is straightforward to develop as a Halloween costume.

Points You are going to Want

Foam core board, one sheet coloured, one sheet silver-gray Poster board, one sheet white, 1 sheet silver-gray Black electrical tape Extensive suggestion black long lasting marker Craft knife 2-sided tape Velcro with adhesive backing #2 Pencil Gray-coloured pencil Duct tape Grosgrain ribbon, one-one/2 inches Vast, 3 yards Glue gun

The iPod

Acquire foam core board in the acceptable iPod Nano coloration. Decide on from black, white, sizzling pink, lime green, red and teal.

Measure the iPod Nano and determine proportionate measurements, relying on the need dimensions of the completed costume. Minimize 1 rectangle of the coloured foam core board for the front and 1 identical-dimension rectangle of silver foam core board for the back of the costume.

Draw all around the corners of the foam core board to round them off. Use the craft knife to score along the pencil markings repeatedly, reducing all the way by way of the foam core board.

Attach the "management wheel" to the front of the iPod with 2-sided tape. Middle it in the room under the viewing display screen.

Specifics

Draw off the room of the viewing display on the upper 50 percent of the front panel of the costume. Reduce a piece of silver poster board to serve as the display and attach it to the front panel by outlining it with black electrical tape.

Use the lid of a significant pot and draw a circle on the white poster board. Draw a 2nd circle in the very first 1 to generate the iPod handle wheel. Reduce out the circle and eliminate the Middle. Use black poster board for the black iPod manage wheel.

Print the phrase "menu" with the gray pencil at the leading Middle of the manage wheel. Draw the "rewind," "forward" and "pause" symbols at the nine:00, 3:00 and six:00 positions, respectively.

Trace the Apple logo and enlarge it. Reduce the logo and the letters "i, P, o, and d" from the white poster board. Affix the Apple logo with "iPod" beneath to the Middle of the rear panel with 2-sided tape.

Assemble the Costume

Inquire somebody to assist match the costume to the wearer. Collect the ribbon, duct tape and scissors.

Lower 2 36-inch lengths of ribbon. Maintain the front of the costume up to the wearer and mark the in of the panel for the place of the ribbons that sit more than the shoulders.

Lay the panel encounter down on a table. Area the ribbons on the within of the panel and safe in area with lengths of duct tape.

Have the wearer Maintain the front of the costume in area. Deliver the loose ends of the ribbons about the shoulders. Mark the within of the back panel as to the area of the ribbons.

Find the ribbons somewhat nearer jointly on the back panel than they are on the front panel. Protected the ribbons to the within of the back panel with lengths of duct tape.

Snip the remaining length of ribbon into 2 eighteen-inch items. Attach a ribbon to possibly side of the inside of back panel of the costume. Glue a piece of Velcro to the corresponding area on the inside of of the front panel.

Suit the costume. Trim the side ribbons to match easily. Glue Velcro to the end of the ribbon at possibly side and safe it to the Velcro at the front panel.