A little cardboard and a smidge of craft foam will get you nice DIY Jack Sparrow compass replica, just perfect for leading you to your heart’s desire (which is of course the full Jack Sparrow costume, right?)

MATERIALS USED:
Corrugated cardboard (just use an old an box)
Scissors
Geometry compass
X-acto knife
Hot glue gun
1 sheet of cardstock
small piece of 3mm craft foam
Blow dryer or heat gun
Tennis ball (to mold foam over)
Pencil
1 sewing pin
Glue that will bond metal (I used Power-tac)
1 Large eye screw
1 small hinge
Metallic black paint 
Metallic gold paint
Blue metallic paint
Off-white or cream paint
Paintbrush
Piece of string
Compass template (I used this one)
1 Thumbtack

Had a few requests for a DIY Jack Sparrow costume tutorial so this is the first part of the costume, and the rest will be coming in sections over the next several weeks. It’s a little time consuming (mostly because you have to wait for paints and glues to dry), but other than that, fairly simple to make.

The entire base of my Jack Sparrow sparrow compass is just corrugated cardboard from an old box with a few of the details provided with craft foam. For the hinge and eyescrews you’ll have to use a glue that will adhere to metal, because hot glue won’t. But you can just use hot glue for most of the rest.

So good luck and drink up, me hearties, yo ho!

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Video tutorial by Amber Reifsteck, The Woodland Elf
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