I fixed them around me and my costume was set. Cut a piece from the top of the box, made slits through the middle and adjusted around my waist,( this is what holds the animals so they don’t fall through the box) got inside the box and had my husband hand me the stuffed animals. The wig I ordered online from a costume store. I made my bozo outfit, again, from items found at the thrift store.

I put aluminum foil on the back of the box to look like mirror. I bent thin wire to make my claw and hung that from the top, put a telephone cord hanging off of that to make it appear as the claw looks in an actual machine. Everything else on the box are pictures I printed on the computer and glued on the box. I glued the toggle onto the top of the small box. I found stuffed animals and a game that had the toggle on it a the thrift store for next to nothing. I glued a third small box on the front for the coin and toggle part. I zip tied small PVC pipe inside to make it sturdy and to use as handle inside so that I could lift it and be able to walk around. I painted them red and cut out the window area and duct taped clear vinyl to the inside. It was made out of 2 cardboard packing boxes from Lowes. I saw a claw machine as I entered Big Lots one day… then decided then that it would be my costume.

Captain claw costume