SUP---ER GROVER!!!
This year for Halloween, I wanted to do something different for my costume. At the beginning of October, I got invited to a Superhero/Supervillain party, and being the silly guy I am, tried to think of an unconventional superhero that no one else would think of. That's when I was struck by a flash from my past.... I would be Super Grover!
I didn't want to have to make too much stuff for this costume, so I found some blue coveralls at Walmart to take care of the blue body, but I still needed to make the Super Grover logo, the cape, and the helmet. For the logo and cape, I contacted my personal seamstress who has helped me on past projects.
Sup-er Katie!
I designed and cut out the logo in felt, then she sewed the pieces together, made the cape, and sewed pieces of Velcro onto my coveralls so that the logo could be easily attached and removed.
After the fabric stuff was done, I made the helmet out of paper mache. Using a balloon as the form, I built up a couple layers of glue-soaked paper. To match a the look of Super Grover's helmet, I used some drawer pulls for the top and sides of the helmet (Super Grover's alter-ego is a doorknob salesman, and drawer pulls kinda look like doorknobs). A couple coats of aluminum-colored spray paint, and I had a pretty good match.
The costume turned out so well, that I won the best male costume at the Baylor Swing Dance Society's Halloween Dance.
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