My niece is in kindergarten and at her school the kindergartners all dress up like robots and have a robot parade. I don’t know how it fits into the curriculum, but I jumped at the chance to help brainstorm some ideas. Really helps the creative juices to start flowing in preparation of Halloween. This is a 5 year old girl we are working with, so we were going for a fairy, princess, fashion robot. I mean why wouldn’t you? Right?

My part was mostly in the planning and supply gathering, so I thought I’d show some pictures and talk about a few of the more interesting elements.

Supply List:

• 2 Roasting pans – Dollar Tree – these taper in a little on both ends, which I think helps with arm mobility. I don’t know if it did or not, but sounds about right
• 2 purple beaded necklaces – Dollar Tree
• 1 Fiber Optic doodad – Dollar Tree. I about squealed in delight when I saw the fiber optics in the hardware aisle at Dollar Tree.
• Glow necklaces and bracelets – Dollar Tree
• An empty milk jug
• Battery operated light strand
• Monogram ‘S’ – Joanns
• Fairy Wings – on hand, dollar tree, or make some
• Pom-poms for earrings and embellishment

Robot Body

• Painted the front purple
• Inserted the light strands by poking holes
• Spray painted the monogram silver
• embellished with the beaded necklace around the S
• The front and back of the body are attached with the glow stick necklaces.
• On the back the fairy wings are strung through the roasting pan with holes.
• The wings were spray painted purple
• There are more beads embellishing the wing junction

The Head

• We cut the bottom of a milk jug and spray painted it silver.
• The batteries for the fiber optics are under the jug and a hole was cut to let the fiber optics come out.
• The jug is attached to a headband (I believe) to make it wearable.
• The mask was spray painted silver
• Beads were added to the mask and around the milk jug

The Shoes

• The shoes ended up being too small, but they are cute and I wanted to show them
• Painted silver shoes
• beads across the strap
• a pom pom on the toes for cuteness

Tutu
I ended up sewing a tutu-type skirt with some purple metallic tulle that my sister had on hand.

Here are a few of the other robots, if you are wanting some inspiration.

I do love the princess robot and that cutie on the far right. On her back she had a sticker that says I love Wall-e. Too cute.

If you need more specifics, or have any questions, let me know. Lets have this Halloween be the year of the robot! Sounds like a blast!