Taylor36

I’m hoping someone can advise me about sewing robot costumes for myself and my children...

I love Halloween! And my son wants all of us to be robots. But my youngest is one, and I might need to pick her up, so I can’t just spray paint boxes for the three of us. I’d like to sew them costumes they can keep and use for dress up play, but I’m stumped about how to make the costumes stiff enough to be robot-like shapes, but still flexible enough to be able to pick up my daughter. The owner of my local fabric shop suggested using thick interfacing, but she wasn’t sure how that would hold up to washing. I don’t necessarily need us all to be rectangle shapes, but I do want to be machine-looking.

Does anyone have any ideas for me?

Thanks for reading! :-)