Graphical pattern detailing how to do a nose

Noses can also be made of pleather or leather. The pleather can be cut and sewn, then stuffed. Hot glue is also used to hold the material in place. Pleather and leather noses can also just be folded.

Noses can also be made out of fimo or sculpey clay that's been moulded and baked to the correct form. For my nose, I used some sculpey clay. After taking it out of the package and playing with it for a bit, I squashed it flat with a jar; honestly, anything can do. You could use a rolling pin, or a mug…

After squashing it into a patty about 1/4“-3/8” thick, I “cut out” (scoring it with a plastic knife) a piece just right for the size of the nose. Then I folded the nose into a good shape, held it up to the head, made sure of it and adjusted it… And then I baked it! Voila, instant nose that can be painted with acrylic to just the right shade. It's hollow, which made baking really really quick.

Some people like to form it into a nose that's solid and bake from there, the process is quite similar: mold it into the shape of a nose just as you would any kind of clay, and bake it.

Sculpey and fimo can be found cheaply at almost every hobby/craft store. The one I go to, AC MOORE, sells all different kinds of sculpey in little packages. You don't even need very much- I got a set of ten paw claws and a nose out of one little package with quite a bit to spare. It's a very versatile material.

From LatinVixen and Ryngs, on using tooldip/plastidip on noses;
I found two online (though you can find it at Home Depot or Lowes):
http://www.plastidip.com/consumer/products.html
http://www.homaxproducts.com/catalog/rubberizeit.html

Colors: blue, red, yellow, green, black, white, and clear Price: about $7-8 for a 14.5oz can.

Apparently, it's VERY easy to do:
1. Cut out foam to size/shape of nose/beak
2. OPEN WINDOWS, good ventilation for this stuff
3. Poor some dip into cheap plastic tupperware cup
4. Dip foam into liquid (or spray it on foam), let dry right side up. (you can attach a piece of string/fishing wire to bottom for easy pull out of the liquid)
5. Continue dipping/spraying until look/thickness is what you want (5 or 6 layers)
6. Attach to costume head

Example of the tool dip nose

You might be able mix these to get different shades/colors, but if you get the correct type of spray paint, you can easily spray the black or white tool dipped nose any color you want.