Post #5769 by Tiki-bot on Tue, Aug 13, 2002 12:43 PM

There are four moai costumes in the art-pit at my old office. They are made of cardboard with craft paper (like heavy brown shipping paper) fastened all over the surface to simulate stone. If you are handy at all with a blade and hot glue gun, you could make one in less than a day.

You can use foam-core board or regular old cardboard to build up the basic shape. If you can't get large pieces, like from appliance boxes, you can overlap and glue several pieces together. You don't have to worry about it having sharp corners or being pretty cuz you will cover the whole thing with craft paper.

Get a bunch of big sheets of craft paper and crumple it up, then loosely flatten it back out. The creases and surface irregularities look a lot like stone. Then simply hot glue it all over your moai-shaped box. Be sure to keep some areas of the paper crumpled up and popped-out from the surface a little so the surface is uneven. Use the paper to round off the corners so they look more like stone. Then get some dark spray paint and spray the low spots on the paper so the shadows are more defined. Be sure to build in a drink-holder on the inside and maybe even a vent in the top, preferrably with a little battery powered fan for cooling.

Hope this helps.