My Kids SCUBA Costumes for Halloween

[Archer_Pensacola]

A few weeks ago I asked for ideas of how to piece together SCUBA costumes for my two boys (4 & 8). The 4 year old won a prize for most original at his halloween party.

My 8 year old

My 4 year old (with untucked wetsuit)

Back of the costume

 

[mjh]

Very cute, all ready starting them down the DIR road...

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

real cute ideas, what was in the doubles before you converted them?

 

[larrandall]

Looks like painted 2 or 3 liter pop bottles. What an imaginative idea! Kudos to Archer Pensacola!

 

[Tamas]

Now that is cool! Very nicely done.

 

[RumBum]

Putting them on a rebreather was brilliant. Super cute!

 

[justleesa]

Good idea and well done they can dive vintage with us

 

[Archer_Pensacola]

For those wondering..... The "wetsuits" are just stretchy girl's clothes. My wife had to alter the pants cuz they were flared at the bottom. She also painted the DD flag on the fronts. The gear/backpacks are two 2-liter soda bottles, connected to PVC pipe and the knob/gauge in the middle is a half styrofoam ball. The air hoses are sections of corrugated pool hose and you can't see it but each has a snorkel mouthpiece glued into the middle for them to bite on. The weight belts are nylon webbing with two aluminum foil covered styrofoam blocks attached with velcro, and the backpacks are held on with nylon webbing straps. The masks are regular pool masks and the fins are cardboard (bad color though, they look like duck feet). Altogether they cost prob $15-20 worth of materials, including the used clothes from ebay.

 

[Derek S]

Well done! It's nice to see parents making original costumes again instead of just running out to wal-mart and plopping down cash for something unimaginitive that will be used and forgotten. Thanks for sharing. I have an 8 year-old and a 3 year-old that would have loved to done that!

 

[craborn]

i can not get the pics to come up. my wife and i want to see them could you email them to us please. arklatexscuba@yahoo.com thanks clay and tina