An Olympic Skeeball Halloween

After moving to Baltimore, I formed a Skeeball team with a group of friends after seeing a flyer in a bar.  Yes, Skeeball, that arcade game found at Chuckie Cheese where you roll wooden balls up a ramp to get into tiered point rings.  It gets pretty competitive, and I am proud to say that Team Skeepin It Real is the undefeated Fells Point Champion.  My team became good friends with another team, 3 Skeets to the Wind shout out! and it just so happened that we would be playing each other in Skeeball on Halloween night.

We wanted to have some kind of competitive themed costumes, and ended up with Summer Olympics versus Winter Olympics (props to Kelly!).  Each person dressed up as a different Olympic event in either summer sports or winter sports.  It was awesome because it was relatively easy to pull together and you could put as much or as little creativity into it. 

As an obviously expert crafter (uh huh..), I volunteered to put a few props together:  Olympic Torch, Olympic Rings Mask, and Gold Medals.  And they were all so easy to make and really pulled our two Skeeball teams into a cohesive unit - USA!  Plus, it's always so fun to go as a group costume.  This would also be a great themed party during the Olympic Season.

Olympic Torch:  
 Materials:  Brown Construction Paper, Hot Glue Gun, Tissue Paper
Shape the construction paper into a cone, and glue.  Insert in tissue paper to look like fire and fluff.

Olympic Ring Mask:
Materials:  Pipe Cleaners, Hot Glue Gun

Step One:
Cut the pipe cleaners in half.  Then, shape all pieces into linking circles, using a google image as a guide to the Olympic Rings layout, and wrap the ends so the shape will stay.  

  

Step Two:
Hot glue the circles into the Olympic Rings set up.  This was the most painful step as I burned my fingers a million times!  If you do ever get hot glue on your skin DO NOT try to get it off immediately.  Let it dry and then you can peel it off painlessly.  

Step Three:
Hot glue a pipe cleaner to the side, and you have an Olympic Masquerade!

Gold Medals:
Materials:  Ribbon, Construction Paper, Aluminum Foil, Hot Glue Gun, Gold Spray Paint (optional if you're not and winner and "going for the gold")

 Step One:
Cut construction paper into circles.  I folded each paper twice, so you get four circles per sheet.

Step Two:
Cover the circles with aluminum foil.  I added just a touch of hot glue to make sure it stayed.   

Step Three:
Spray paint both sides of the aluminum foil gold.  Let dry for about an hour total. 


Step Four:
Cut ribbons in a color of your choice.  Hot glue the ribbon to the medal, put around neck, and now you're a gold medalist!

The Finished Product:
Although it may be a bit difficult to see the props in the below pictures, it was so fun to make these and see them bring displayed at this Halloween's Skeeball Olympics!  Happy Halloween!