America's HobKnob Life: How to make a Foxy Costume from FNAF! (Part One)

Well, I'm making Obe Wan a Foxy costume and I decided if he wanted to pick one of the most difficult costumes on the planet then he can help!

How to make a FOXY Costume from Five Nights at Freddys.

Step One: Watch as many YouTube videos as I can to figure out exactly what a "FOXY" is!

Step Two: Look at 100+ images on Google of what a "FOXY" is!

Step Three: Look at 10 year old who wants to be this "FOXY" and tell him he is crazy! :)

Step Four: Go to JoAnn's Fabric and buy 2 yards of dark red fleece, 1 yard of a lighter red fleece and 1.5 yards of 1" foam. Bring a 40% off coupon as the foam is pricey! Buy canvas mats to make Foxy's head. I already had embroidery thread, but if you don't buy this and some needles. You will be sewing by hand to make the mask! I assume everyone owns a glue gun and lots of glue, but if not, pick this up too!

Step Five: Go to a Lumber Store and buy two Springs for Foxy's ears.

Step Five.5: To save money you can buy some of these supplies at Wal-Mart too. I went there and bought two candle tea lights with LED lights and batteries. I also bought foam balls to make the eyeballs. You will need 1/2 yard of black felt. Craft paint in yellow, white, gold and black and paint brushes to paint this on! (I had all of this at my house, but I'm a crafter.)

Step Six: Start the process of drinking---a lot....

Step Seven: Measure your person's head. Cut 1.5" strips to make the mask. Sew them together as shown. This was true trial and error. It required a lot of yelling at the ten year old to come here and try this on again. I'm sure there is a more precise way, but at this point I was a few drinks in....hA!!

Step Eight: Warm up glue gun and have LOTS of glue ready! You will now take the glue gun and pieces of foam and start filling in the gaps. If you have gloves warm them. I burnt the heck outta my hands doing this only to have my hubby come along with T-vex gloves and help. Jerk. (More drinks needed....)

Step Nine: Cut out the eyeball wholes and put in your candle lights. You can glue these in as well. Make sure they work prior to inserting them in the eyes. We painted around the balls once we had shoved the candle lights into the foam.

Step Ten: Start covering the head with fleece. This is difficult. There is no easy way to describe this process. Cut and cover was our method. Make sure you make the muzzle a different shade than the head. Some versions used pink, orange and different shades of red. Use black felt to cover around the eyelids, make the eye patch, make dots for his muzzle and the nose. You will have to use your best judgement on these little gems as well. DID I mention I was drinking? Oh yeah, and I was drinking for about 3 days because this is how long it took.

Step Eleven: Making the ears was pretty simple. Yep. I had those babies done after I completed the foam around the canvas. I had hot glue from my left hand to my right and strings of glue everywhere. You know what I'm talking about. Stupid hot glue strings. I did sew these inside out and then slide them on like a pillow case. It worked wonders! I glued the springs in and set them aside. I also glued black felt into the middle of them to give them definition.

I thought about slip covering the side hairs, but decided it would be easier to cover them as apart of th mask. I did sew the hairs on the top of his head and stuffed them with foam.

Step Twelve: The jaw/teeth. So I did the slip cover thing again for the lower jaw. I cut two pieces of foam, glued them together and covered them with fleece. I used heavy gauge wire to attach it to the top of the mask. I made teeth from Duck tape! I painted them white and gold to match Foxy. The 10 year old did NOT want blood on the teeth as he claims he is cleaned up after he murders the children. (Take long drag on alcoholic beverage.)

I inserted the teeth from the bottom up and added another layer of Duck Tape to the lower half. You can't see it as it is on the inside of the slip cover. Worked out pretty well. (I hope this makes sense. I am sober at this point....)

Step Thirteen: Sew the eye patch--I used a piece of cardboard. I sewed two pieces of black felt together like a slip cover again. Flipped it inside out and covered up the cardboard. I tacked it on by hand in the two corners so it can be flipped open and closed. As luck would have it the tea light under the patch started going wonky. Perfectly creepy! I couldn't have planned for that any better.

I blued pieces of black felt to cover up the seams of my red fleece. I did the same thing on the top as I did on the bottom. I made more Duck tape teeth, put them through the wholes I snipped and then reenforced them all with Duck tape. Glued this on the upper half and it worked like a charm.