How To Make A Football Helmet Out Of Cardboard

Milk Jug Football Helmet

Learn how to brand a DIY milk jug football helmet for your adjacent football political party. This pattern is easy to customize for your favorite team. These are great football decorations for a playoff or Super Bowl Party!

I idea of the idea to brand a milk jug football game helmet for an indoor tailgate party. I looked at all of the details of the official NFL helmets and created my decorative version. I like the manner that it turned out it resembles a cross between the erstwhile school leather helmets of the early on NFL years and the current helmet we know today. I brand these for Super Bowl gathering just it would also be fun to make for a kid'south birthday party.

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You can also make ii helmets to bear witness the match up! Here are another team helmets I made.

Panthers vs. Ravens

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I thought of the idea to make a milk jug football helmet for an indoor tailgate party. I looked at all of the details of the official NFL helmets and created my own decorative version. I really like the manner that it turned out it resembles a cross between the erstwhile school leather helmets of the early NFL years and the current helmet we know today. I make these for Super Bowl gathering merely it would besides be fun to make for a kid'due south altogether party.

Materials

One Empty Milk Jug (washed and stale I know that seems obvious merely you never know)
Metallic Acrylic Paint from the craft stores to lucifer your teams colors (information technology costs around a dollar)
6 pipe cleaners (they may be chosen Chenille Stems)
Duct Tape (in the colour of your teams face guard)
Cream Brush
Arts and crafts Glue
Mucilage Gun
Logo printouts
White paper

How to Brand a DIY Milk Jug Football Helmet

pattern

Draw the football helmet on the the milk jug as shown above.When choosing a milk jug, don't brand the aforementioned error I did by using a white plastic jug or you will have to paint the inside as well. Instead, use a translucent plastic jug and then the colour on the exterior of the helmet will bear witness through to the inside.
Cut out the helmet shape with scissors.

paint

Paint the helmet with acrylic paint and a foam brush. It will accept 2-3 coats to give it a solid base depending on what color you utilise.I usually spray pigment plastic for a flawless finish but you can also apply some acrylic paint instead. Observe that I used a white milk jug and so I had to pigment the within as well.

strips

Paint two strips of white newspaper in the the accent color and attach them to the pinnacle of the helmet with craft glue. Yous may also use a colored slice of lightweight paper.

twist

To make the face up baby-sit, twist two pieces of piping cleaner together.
Cut a strip of duct tape and lay the twisted pipe cleaner on the edge, giving it well-nigh ane/4 inch extra at the end. But cut manageable pieces of duct record…I used about a 6 inch strip.

duct-tape

Scroll the pipe cleaner onto the duct record to form a nice wrapped tube. Continue to this method until the entire piece is covered making sure to overlap the edges of each additional slice of duct tape.

faceguard

Curve the covered pipe cleaner so it resembles the shape of the faceguard. Fold the ends in and glue to give it a end await.
For the top function of the face guard, you will need a longer length. Twist two pieces of piping cleaner together at the ends and then twist them together and cover the piece with duct tape as directed above.

faceguard1

faceguard2

Attached the confront guard with a hot glue gun. Attach the height part first. It volition be longer than you need and so cutting it to size. Be careful not to burn your fingers.

riddell

Add accent pieces to finish the helmet. I printed out the Riddell logo.

flag

Added the American flag for an extra special touch.
And of form you need the team logo. I added a white circle for an ear hole. Ship me pictures of your completed helmet. I would honey to meet which NFL helmet you created and I will post it on my web log.