The front bumper is pretty straight forward. Learn from me and make sure the opening is big enough to fit their head but not big enough that their shoulders would fit through too. I later added more foam pieces to the opening to make it smaller. *Learn from my mistakes* I made the opening way too big and his whole body would come right through the opening. I also scored several lines on top of the hood so that it would be easier to bend into a curve. On the last side at the back of the hood, I only scored underneath the board so that it would create a flap that could open up and out. I only cut all the way through on the front three sides. I made the opening about 3 or 4 inches in on all sides. Next, you’ll need to cut an opening into the hood. The front part of the hood comes to a point (although if it were straight across, it wouldn’t be a big deal). As far as the width, I just put the board up against my son and made sure it was wider than him and he had a little space on either side. I matched the length of the hood to the length of the hood that I had already made on my front side panel. To avoid this, for the length of the hood, you want to make it maybe 2.5 or 3 times the depth of the child’s body so that there’s room, but not too much room. I later cut off the front of the hood to fix my mistake. *Learn from my mistakes* I initially made the length of the hood way too long and the costume flopped all around my son’s shoulders. I found that it’s so much harder to work with the curved pieces. It would have been so much easier and it would have looked fine. Now that I’m done, I wish I had the sense to just cut it straight down at an angle. The hood is curved so the front of the panel is curved. I knew I wanted to cut it down later as much as possible because the front side panels will end up sticking out behind the child when he’s standing up and I didn’t want it protruding too much. I used the entire length of my foam board at first. I did one side first and then used that one to trace the second. You can use round tap lights, coasters, anything at all that’s heavy enough.) Here I’ll point out all the pieces of the car and label each piece so it will make more sense going forward. Ultimately, this YouTube video from a channel called “I Am Bentley” is the one I based my costume off of. I watched a ton of videos and looked at a lot of pictures of transforming costumes. I feel this step is really important so you don’t get confused along the way. Understand all the pieces, how the costume moves, which pieces are permanently connected, which pieces swing, and which pieces should not be connected at all. To start off, I think you should definitely familiarize yourself with the costume. DIY Converting Transformers Bumblebee Costumeįirst thing’s first, let’s take a look at my completed DIY Converting Transformers Bumblebee Costume. So this is going to be less of a tutorial and more of a guide if you want to make a DIY converting Transformers Bumblebee costume of your own. I did make the costume on the fly and eyeballed everything so there are no measurements. I’m happy to report that my attempt ended up looking pretty decent. Recently my son has been obsessed with Bumblebee from Transformers and while there’s always the option of buying the transforming Bumblebee costume, I decided to attempt to make the costume for him. I’ve been seeing a few DIY converting Transformers Bumblebee costumes around the internet for a while now.
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