DIY Rock Candy Costume

1. Cut your cardboard tube to the desired size. Ours was about 8".
2. Paint your cardboard tube and foam ball tan to look like wood. It's ok to leave some "streaks" to give it a more realistic look! Let dry.
3. While it's drying, put together all your boxes. It's super easy, just fold 'em up!
2. Stuff about 10 small and 4 large boxes with a piece of iridescent mylar. This adds some dimension to the dress!
3. Try your dress on and use safety pins to mark a general outline of where you want the boxes to fall. We narrowed ours around the shoulder and then made it wider to swing around my hip a bit at the bottom.
4. Take the dress off and put something in the center of it (between the front and back) like scrap cardboard. Heat up your hot glue gun!
5. Start gluing on your boxes. Anchor the dress with several of the large ones, placed sporadically across the dress. Then begin filling in with the smaller ones, using primarily ones that don't have mylar inside but evenly distributing the mylar-filled ones in between.
6. You can try the dress on a couple times as you go as it will look a little different on (if it's a stretchy dress) then when it's flat. Then continue building and layering the boxes until you have the look you want!
7. To finish the hat, glue the painted sphere to the top of the cardboard tube.
8. Glue the bottom of the cardboard tube to the headband. You may need to bobby pin or clip the headband to your head to keep it in place while wearing!