I’ve always loved Robot Santa from Futurama. He started out as a good guy, but his programming quickly discovered that everyone is on the naughty list. Since everyone is naughty, everyone must be punished! Well….except for Dr. Zoidberg. He’s a good boy.
This mask was very fun to make and I hope you like it!
Find the center of this strip. Tape on the face template.
Cut the pieces out of the face.
Wrap around your head to get a nice, comfortable fit.
Tape and glue the ends together.
Cut teeth out of cereal box cardboard. Glue into the mouth.
Cut the ears out of poster board. Roll into tubes. Add a ball to the end of each tube. The other end should be “closed” with a circle of cardboard.
Eyes:
Each eye should be a stack of 3 corrugated cardboard pieces. Glue these pieces together. Cover all the corrugation holes on the sides with masking tape. Glue 1 cereal box piece on top so it looks clean. Repeat for the other eye.
Paint everything in gray craft paint.
Paint the edges of the eyes and the ball part on the ears in gray mixed with black and purple.
Paint the nose in gray mixed with black, purple, and red.
Cut the lenses out of a mesh screen. Paint in orange. Glue to the eyes.
Hat
Wrap the top of the head in scrap corrugated cardboard. It should look like a headband.
Add scrap corrugated cardboard strips to the inside of the mask at the bottom…this just gives it some support.
Take wrapping paper, and make a cone.
Paint cone in red craft paint.
Hot glue the cone onto the top of the mask, right onto the corrugated cardboard headband.
Add a 2in wide long strip of poster board as the white fur part of the hat.
Spiky pom pom:
Cut out the cone template pieces.
Roll into cones. Glue closed with mod podge.
Add a very big dollop of hot glue to the inside of the cone and immediately press onto a ball.
Repeat until all 6 cones are added to the ball.
Coat the entire spiky ball in mod podge.
Beard
Cut mustache out of flimsy poster board.
Tape and glue mustache to the mask. Make sure it points down and all the glue is hidden underneath it.
Cut lower lip out of flimsy poster board.
Tape and glue lower lip to the mask. Make sure it points up. The glue should be at the bottom of it since this will be covered by the beard.
Cut out the 3 template pieces for the beard. Tape together. Tape onto the mask as a test fit. You will need to adjust this piece, namely cut down the “sideburns” of the beard. You may also need to reposition the center piece so the beard fits a little more snug against the mask.
Once you are happy with your paper test fit, take this piece off, tape onto flimsy poster board and cut out.
Tape and then glue the beard onto the mask. Make sure to round the corners of the sideburns so it looks nice.
Assembly
Using hot glue…
Glue on the eyes. Feel free to reference the “Eye Layout” in the template.
Glue on the ear missiles right above his mustache line.
Glue on the spiky pompom to the end of the hat.
Glue a piece of black fabric to the inside of the mouth to cover up the mouth hole.
