Snack Time

First thing was to cut arm holes and an opening for her head. I then placed another box inside that leaving enough room for her to stand. I measured and centered the front to figure out where to put the front of the vending machine window, leave enough room on one side for the buttons and coin slot and leave enough room at the bottom for the drawer. I took contact paper and covered the outside of the box. I then used mirrored poster board and lined the inside of the box. ALso put a push on night light in the top of box to light up the inside

To make the racks to hold the candy I used small square wooden dowels. I hot glued them to the side of the box measuring up from the bottom to get it even on both sides. I then laid another piece of the wooden dowel across the front and back, hot gluing it in place making a support rack to hold the rotary piece. I did this for all three rows.

For the rotary parts that hold the candy I used a plastic slinky, stretched it out, cut it and hot glued it to another piece of wooden dowel. I then hot glued each rotary piece centering it on the rack pieces that were already hot glued inside the box. For the candy I had to use the "Fun Size" bars. I carefully cut open each package and ate the candy inside (this was the best part of making this costume). Then I filled each candy wrapper with cotton balls Then tape the wrappers shut. Hot glue the stuffed candy wrappers inside the slinky slots. On the front of each slinky row I used key tags and put a Letter - Number for each row.

I then measured the opening of the front window and went to the local hardware store and got the cheapest piece of plastic for the front of the window. We used velcro to attach the plexiglass to the box for the window this made it easier to work on,
For the drawer where the candy should fall I took a piece of solid black craft foam; the word "push" was also cut from the craft foam and glued on. The word "snacks" was also cut from craft foam and glued across the top.

Now you have to make the side where the buttons are. I first glued on a large piece of black craft foam. For the number / letter buttons I found very sturdy craft Styrofoam which I cut into the desired button size. I then used a black sharpie to write letters / numbers on each button then glue them on in order. I put the letters on the top and numbers on the bottom. At the top of the buttons I glued another small piece of craft foam in a contrasting color. I then cut a slot for the coins to be deposited and labeled it as such "EXACT AMOUNT 50$". People even gave her money for a special treat. we cut a small black plastic container like from a frozen weight watchers chocolate chip cookie dough sundae and glued it to the change return