Our younger son is working on a video at camp that features a knight and a dragon. We spent the Fourth of July making the knight’s helmet pictured here out of cardboard.
Fashioning compound curves out of corrugated materials proved way more challenging than I anticipated. I vaguely remember knocking out a cardboard “Captain Rex” Star Wars clone trooper helmet in an evening with time left over to draw the rest of the costume in Sharpie on white pajamas many years ago... So many years ago that my older son was young enough to develop a life threatening need for a clone trooper costume the night before Halloween...and apparently I was young and foolish enough to make him one.
I don’t remember that helmet being so challenging, but perhaps I was just not sleeping enough at the time to form accurate long term memories.
Or maybe this loss of helmet building skill is a symptom of progressive cognitive decline: losing one’s keys, poor word retrieval, and the “inability to fashion helmets out of flat materials”
In fact, I am a little sleep deprived right now. Can you tell?
My son is now telling me that we need to remake the helmet over the weekend as he has decided that it requires a more complicated design.
At least the dragon is two dimensional.
Here’s the previous helmet from way back in 2009
Maybe it was more impressive in my memory...
Maybe it was more impressive in my memory...
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