Athena's Shield

Make a shield that barely costs you anything and looks so much more authentic than anything bought in a store:)
This is so fun, so easy, and so inexpensive! I found a pizza pan at Wal-Mart for like $5, had some leftover sculpey clay, gold spray paint, and puffy paint lying around, so all in all I only had to pay $5 on this whole shield, and it looks SOOOO much better than anything I could have bought pre-made in a store. Now I totally forgot to add a handle and ended up using packing tape on the back, which I definitely do NOT recommend....i would recommend using some kind of rivets before you start all these steps.

My husband and I made our ENTIRE costumes....we spend WAY too much time on them haha but we loved them. I was Athena and he was Perseus. The rest of our costumes were mostly sewn or made out of fun foam that we painted:) We were definitely proud of them!