The boys sweet-talked us into $65 worth of materials plus $35 shipping for a costume project. All I knew was that they were making armor from foam based on a video they saw on Youtube.The foam arrived a couple of weeks later in a box that said, ¨We sell mats!¨
Sure enough, it was a box of foam mats like you would find in a nursery school.
While they waited for the slow, overpriced shipping, they made paper models, so that they did not waste the foam.
Tristan is gluing some nylon webbing onto the knee guard.
He is also improvising with the locking edge of the mat to make an awesome scary spine.
The heart of the project is that you hit this foam with a heat gun and then bend it.
When it cools, it holds its shape.
I am amazed. I am glad Troy has hot glue and a heat gun!
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