Halloween Cat Mask

Step 1

Steps:

1. Place a store-bought plastic mask onto a piece of foam from a waffle mattress pad. Trace the outline of the mask on the foam with a permanent black marker.

Step 2

2. Sketch the eyes, nose, and mouth and face patterns on the foam.

Step 3

3. Cut out the foam pieces. Sculpt each piece with scissors before gluing onto the plastic mask.

Step 4

4. Glue the sculpted pieces on the mask with fabric glue.

Step 5

5. With a soldering iron or wood burner, burn scroll and line patterns onto the foam. Wear a dust mask or respirator.

Steps 6-8

6. Coat the mask with spray adhesive.

7. Sponge on liquid latex with a scrap piece of foam. Wait for it to dry.

8. Coat the Halloween mask with spray adhesive again.

Step 9

9. Wear a dust mask. Place the mask in a cardboard box. Spray paint the entire piece black. Allow to dry.

Steps 11-12

10. Mist the Halloween cat mask with gold spray paint.

11. Apply purple, pink and silver metallic fingernail polish to add highlights to the eyes, mouth and cheeks.

12. Spray a gloss sealer all over the mask.

Steps 13-14

13. Remove the existing elastic strap from the mask.

14. Staple white elastic to each side.

Steps 15-17

15. Tie a ribbon on one side, where the elastic is attached. The other side is tied when it is put on to wear. This is a decorative element to cover the elastic strap.

16. Cut felt to fit inside the cat mask for comfort.

17. Glue felt on the inside of the mask for a nice finished look for your Halloween cat mask.

Halloween Cat Mask designed by Lyn Marie Neuenfeldt from Milwaukee, Wis.

Ever since Lyn Marie’s grandfather took her to see a horror movie at the age of 5, monsters and monster masks have fascinated her. One time, she tried to cast a plaster mask on her brother, but he ended up in the emergency room with doctors removing the plaster from his face. She now happily works as a special effects artist in Milwaukee, specializing in monsters.

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