AI-generated picture to show the idea. Yours will look handmade.

The Cactus in a Pot

A green cardboard cactus with two arms and drawn spines on your chest, a terracotta flowerpot round your waist, and a paper flower on your head. Spiky in spirit only.

TIME: 90 min
COST: about $12
SKILL: Some cutting

What you need

Green cardboard or card painted green
Orange-brown card for the pot
Black marker for spines
Pink paper for a flower
Rope for shoulder straps

How to make it

1
Draw a cactus with a tall body and two arms on the green card, big enough to cover your chest, and cut it out.
2
Draw spines with the marker, in little groups.
3
Cut a pot shape from the orange card with an open middle and straps so it hangs round your waist.
4
Add shoulder straps to the cactus and attach the pot below it.
5
Make a paper flower and fix it to a headband.

Make it better

Give people a hug, carefully.
Plant a real small cactus in your hand for the photo.

Questions

Can I sit down in it?

Make the pot from a flexible card ring so it can be lifted at the front.

Wear it in front of your own haunted CCTV

Upload four photos of your house and Cursed Cam turns them into a night-time security monitor where something is very wrong. Put it on the TV by the door.

Make my monitor See how it works