Halloween Costume, continued

	Remember how I had all the flaps tucked under one another? Now I've trimmed off the tucked-under parts.
	Tape it together.
	Tape it from underneath, too.
Okay, now I'm done prepping the box and ready to sticker it. Glusman has replied my e-mail asking him how he built his cube costume, and he gives me some good pointers. I realized the black art tape I'd bought was too thin in proportion to the size of each sticker. Also, I did some calculations on the 48-pack of construction paper I'd bought. There were either four or five sheets of each color needed. However, I could only cut two whole stickers from each sheet (as Glusman pointed out, for a professional look, you don't want the paper edges of the sticker squares showing). But each side needed about 9 stickers (minus the holes), so for those colors for which there was only four sheets, I'd be short a sheet. So I needed more construction paper as well. Glusman said he'd used electrical tape, so I went online to find some place I could get it. Surprisingly, Staples doesn't carry electrical tape! But fortunately Walgreens does! So off to Walgreens I go.
	Construction paper: $5, tape: $4 each, glue: $4, total cost (with tax): $18. Final cost of Rubik's Cube costume: about $50.
	Red side laid out.
	Red side glued and taped.
I tried Elmer's Glue, the "Perfect Glue" I bought, and double-sided tape, and discovered double-side tape worked best. Elmer's Glue left wrinkles in the paper. "Perfect Glue" worked well, but after gluing one sticker, like a quarter of the tube was gone. Actually, whatever adhesive you use, you really don't need very much because the construction paper naturally clings pretty well to the cardboard.
	Green side laid out.
	Green side taped.
	Blue side cut and laid out.
	Blue side taped.
	White side finished. It's printer paper!
	One thing you don't want to do is mess up the color scheme. Make sure you reference a cube if you're not sure where the colors are located relative to one another.
	Christmas!
	Yellow side completed - cube costume complete!
So, when deciding how many rolls of electrical tape to buy, I did a little calculation. For each side, I needed four vertical strips of 20" and four horizontal strips of 20". Thus, 5 sides x 8 x 20" = 800", which is about 22 yards. Of course, along the edges, the vertical and horizontal strips of two adjacent sides overlap, so I actually overcounted the length of electrical tape needed. However, each roll was 12.5 yards, so even taking the overlap into consideration and the stretchiness of the tape, I knew I'd still need a little more than one roll, so I got two just to be safe. I ended up using around 1.25 rolls. The only thing left was to wait for Halloween to begin! See facebook for my Halloween pictures!

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