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How to do it right, with cosplay weapons and shield


My kids love to cosplay and what it appears that they love just as much, is to use cosplay weapons outside when they play.  It is great to give them something that I only wished I had when I was a kid.  I know that when I was their age, I used an old black hoodie and took some cardboard triangles, folded them in the center, along a line with the point, and then taped them onto the top of my hood.  I then had an old fabric mask, like the one the Lone Ranger has, and put that on.  While it may not have been right on, I can remember now, still, the image I saw when I looked at my reflection in the neighbor's glass sliding door.  I looked like Batman.  For a kid, at least for me, I felt like Batman, I felt indestructible.  I remembered how I jumped up on our playhouse and swingset and imagined that I was climbing to the bad guy or jumping down to the next fight and how fearsome I must have looked.  Was I cosplaying or just pretending or are they the same?

I want my kids to have the same experience and when my wife and I shut off the TV and tell them to go outside and play, and after they are done shooting themselves a million times with Nerf guns, they get bored.  So, they came in and wanted to find something to play with and I sent them outside with a foam hammer and shield.  This made them tired, so it was good.  The hammer was just a rectangle of EVA floor tile foam hot glued together around a large card board tube.  The shield though, was a bit different.





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