A craft store is where Halloween ambitions begin, stocked with foam, paint and possibility. For a young Jenna Ortega, it was Hobby Lobby, where she bought the big block of styrofoam that — spray-painted grey and topped with a headband reading ‘rock’ — became her most famous childhood costume, as retold on Late Night with Seth Meyers in October 2026. The story has made the craft store aisle a place of pilgrimage for fans planning their own gloriously literal costumes.
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