![]() ![]() ![]() Now look out and watch people get out of the way. You can stencil on some markings to indicate the owner of the traffic cone: Dept of Traffic, Utility Company, property of the BUG Company - Brooklyn Union Gas, etc. The tape piece would need to be somewhat arc shaped to fit correctly. Note that if you actually did use a tape to apply the band, it would not lie flat on the conical shape as you went around. I've got a batch of glass microbead sandblasting media that I might try to see if it is similar to the stuff they use to dust the freshly painted lines in the street. You can also glue and sprinkle some glitter on there later to increase the realism of your traffic cone. Since I don't have any real retroreflective tape, I freehanded two bands on the cone by painting the borders of the strips leaving an exposed strip of white. The concept was three-fold, started out a few years ago thinking about the movie Space Truckers, there were these robots in it with funny heads I liked. Traffic cones have an added strip or strips of retroreflective tape(tiny glass mirror beads are embedded in the paint) to increase visibility when lights shine on it, a safety feature especially useful when car headlights bounce off the traffic cone to warn the driver of something ahead. Safety Traffic Cone Costume was created using ordinary traffic cones. You can also apply a weathered look by drybrushing - dab just a drop of black and white paint on your brush, apply feather strokes to get graying and a weather worn look. It smeared some of the paint and I liked the weatherbeaten look to it. When touching up the black trim on the bottom, I used a rag to wipe up some errant paint and just wiped it all over the cone. I painted the bottom black to simulate the rubber base. The paint is a fluorescent school bus yellow that I added red to get the right color. I used acrylic paints for easy cleanup and knew that this would not really be exposed to the elements like a real traffic cone. ![]() Lastly, I found a CalTrans logo on the web, printed it out and glued it on the front of the costume for that extra bit of authenticity and recognizable.The cone was primed with white acrylic paint. Each time he wore the costume we had to tape him into it - the back seam area had an extra tape layer to make the subsequent layers of tape easily removable. And I cut a little bit of the cone away right under his chin so it wouldn’t stick him in the face. Unfortunately the poster board was not big enough to fashion a complete cone, so I did have to use some scrap poster board pieces at the bottom back to make the body wide enough to fit correctly.īoth hat and body pieces are completely covered on the inside with clear packing tape for added strength and pliability. The same general idea was used to create the body and even more trial and error to get it to fit over his shoulders and body. I used the hat as a template for cutting the holographic sticker paper border and a hole punch for attachment points for the ribbon. I began by making a template out of newspaper (using our actual cone as a form) for the hat, it took some trial and error (and some high school geometry/trigonometry) to get the fit right. I got the orange poster board (2 sheets), holographic sticker paper (4 sheets) and orange ribbon at the craft/fabric store and the orange onesie at Target (already had the grey construction PJs). FREE delivery Thu, Dec 14 on 35 of items shipped by Amazon. Dressed as a Ghostbuster and walking a dog named for a Stephen King character, Barbara Valcarcel suffered a real life bloody Halloween horror in upper Manhattan on Oct. I knew immediately that I would make a “dunce-like” hat for the top piece, the body piece would have arm holes and he’d wear an orange onesie. With Traffic Cone Halloween Costume Party Matching Couples T-Shirt. I wanted something relatively easy to make and upon seeing an actual traffic cone in our garage it dawned on me that here was my answer to a Homemade Traffic Cone Toddler Halloween Costume. My 4.5 year old son had decided to be a backhoe for Halloween, so I had to come up with a “sidekick” costume for my 11 month old.
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