Don’t pay through the nose for one of those fancy-pants Barack Obama masks they’re hawking at that inauguration of his. You can make your own out of a few simple household items! And I’ll show you how!
YOU WILL NEED:
- Plain sheet of A4 paper
- Felt-tip pens
- A length of string
- A pair of scissors
- Inauguration hat
I didn’t have most of those things, so I used the back of a bank statement, a biro and some masking tape.
STEP ONE:
First you must carefully tear out the eye-holes on your plain sheet of A4 paper. If you don’t, Obama will be blind and might bump into Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany!
When you are finished, you can test your eye-holes by placing the A4 sheet of paper up to your face and looking through the eye-holes with your eyes (through the holes). Can you see? Then it is working.
STEP TWO:
Next you must draw on Obama’s smiling face using your felt-tip pens. If you just have a biro like me you might have to go over it lots of times otherwise you won’t be able to see Obama’s smile properly unless you looked really closely, and that would be a terrible shame. Obama’s smile must be seen from far, far away. So go hog wild!
Haha, you can see your Obama mask is already starting to take shape. But you’re not done yet!
STEP THREE:
Remember this is a mask, so you have to attach it to your face. You can use the string and put some holes in the mask or something, but you can also use masking tape around your head a few times. Make sure it is tight enough so that the mask doesn’t fall away and reveal your true identity.
Nice and tight!
STEP FOUR:
Just pop the ceremonial inauguration hat on your head and hey presto, you’re an unnerving facsimile of the new president of the United States of America. If somebody asks if you are really Barack Obama, it is illegal to say yes, but it’s also illegal to arrest the president. So you’re safe no matter what.
STEP FIVE:
If you want to go even one step further, you can cut a hole in the mouth so you can talk out of the mask.
Even Barack’s own mother would be fooled!
STEP SIX:
You can even eat out of the mouth-hole.
STEP SEVEN:
Have fuuuuunnnnn! :)
http://blog.escapedmonkey.co.uk/img/obamamask/tongue2.jpg
That one makes you look like a bad guy out of Manhunt.
I’d vote for that! Why is Obama eating a watermelon though? Surely he can eat anything he wants now he’s president! Except broccoli, as George Bush senior banned Presidents from eating that.
I made a similar mask to keep the rain off back in 2007; little did I know I was creating the next Resident of the Untied Tates! http://www.flickr.com/photos/23161197@N00/1310308781/