Being a father of two younger children (9 and 11), I have made more than a few movies starring the kids. We made one in particular called “School time Superheroes”. The kids played superheroes that saved the other school kids from an evil villain (played by me). We created the characters, made the sets and all the costumes. We went to thrift stores to find material for costumes and capes, the ray gun and my evil villain DR’s lab-coat. Discount stores had the rest of the materials we needed. All together it cost around $25.00. It was our summer project to help keep the kids busy and have some fun.

Schooltime Superheroes

We designed the masks and cut them out of thick construction paper. We used rubber bands stapled on the sides for the straps. For the capes we found some curtains at the thrift store that were the size and colors we needed.  The tops already had a curtain rod pocket sewed on so we threaded some long shoe laces through it for the neck tie. We then cut it to length and hemmed it using a hot glue gun. Perfect.

Superheroes flying 1

 

Superheroes flying 2

 

 

 

 

 

For their costumes we used old t-shirts and cut out their superhero initials out of tape and put it on the shirts. We also found the right color matching sneakers on sale at a department store. My costume was a white Dr’s lab coat. The local thrift store had one in my size!

The sets were made from old cardboard boxes, some tin foil and lots of tape and glue. We made our robot “Beep” out of a shoe box, four toilet paper rolls, tin foil and tape. He came out really quite good and became the hit of the movie.

Beep the robot and set

My evil Dr’s ray-gun was made from a broken drill gun, a plastic laundry soap bottle and a door stop. All glued together and painted silver. Pretty impressive ray-gun if I do say so myself.

Dr.Dumb Dumb and ray-gun

Hope this inspires.

Have Fun.