How To: make your own iPod Halloween costumes

Is $40 is a little steep for your iPod to be fashionable this Halloween? Yeah, probably. When I grew up moms or grandmas made all the costumes (except for those creepy William Shatner masks). So why not craft yerself a little iPod costume? Let's face it, dre ing up an iPod i 't that hard. I used a marker, a ti ue, and my iPod dock to create the lovely e emble you see here.

I also discovered the little hats that come with Mr. Potato heads fit my 4G iPods! I don't have a 5G, so YMMV. I've included complete i tructio for the ghost outfit, plus a pic of my iPod as R2D2 after the jump. Feel free to share your own creatio !

For the ghost costume, you're go a need a marker, ti ue (or other malleable white material, a Kleenex just ha ened to be handy-- I use it to wipe my Mighty Mouse's nose). I peeled the ti ue ply so it was bigger, and covered the entire iPod. Then, I sort of pushed down a bit, to form the paper to the iPod. Making note of the screen area, I removed the ti ue, drew the face, and re-a lied. Voila! I don't have any handy, but it would seem a dry erase marker could be used to draw directly on the iPod. Given past experience with dry erase though, don't leave it on there too long! (And TUAW a umes no re o ibility for your now-discolored iPod).

And here's the pic of our fun little droid iPod... Wouldn't an R2D2 iPod be great?