I just discovered this costume that I loved and that I could join in the selection of homemade costumes with balloons, although this is something more elaborate. It's about making a kind of houseboat thanks to lots of helium balloons.
It is a somewhat cumbersome costume, so I would recommend it for children from four years. We need very little material to do it, maybe the most complicated thing is to get the helium balloons but we give other alternative solutions. These are the steps to follow to make this original "Up" costume, our own flying house.
We remove the base and the top covers of a square box that will make a basket and decorate it by painting it with colored boxes. The one in the image acts as a grid basket by painting each square alternately of the same light-dark colors.
The box has to make four holes through which we will pass the "braces" to hold on the child's shoulders.
The "roof" is done by joining four rods from the corners of the box, and between them on top with a cardboard edge. We will not properly roof, so as not to carry more weight to the costume.
To these cardboard edges that make the roof we join the helium balloons as seen in the photograph, at different heights.
It occurs to me that if we do not have the possibility to buy or swell the balloons with helium, they could get hooked with rigid sticks, in the way that they usually give as a gift to the children in some establishments and that they immediately end up hooked to the shopping cart or of the baby. We also place them at different heights. Balloons directly attached to the roof would also work.
Finally, if we want to complete this walking globe, we can attach four bags or paper-filled bags to the bottom corners of the basket-box, so that they act as "counterweight".
I hope this original flying home costume or made with balloons I encourage you to create a costume for your children at Carnival.
