I never really liked Halloween until I started making costumes for the kids. This year, the hot glue gun was my best friend and allowed me to make everyone's costumes really quickly. The boys decided on a skeleton and Elmo, respectively, a couple of months ago. They never wavered in their decisions.
Carson and I had fun looking up diagrams of the skeletal system and cutting the bones out of felt. Then I just hot glued them onto the same pants and shirt he wore for his costume last year! (So the total cost was about $2 for the felt.) He learned the names of the bones, and he LOVED having his face painted.
I was at Goodwill (in Tacoma, Washington of all places) and was looking around for a red shirt and pants to make Everett's costume. I found this Elmo outfit for 6 bucks! It is way too big for him, so I cut off half the legs and made one of them into the hat. Ping pong balls are the eyes, and the nose I just made out of orange felt. I didn't plan on painting his face, but after seeing Carson he just couldn't live without it.
Happy Halloween!!
Carson and I had fun looking up diagrams of the skeletal system and cutting the bones out of felt. Then I just hot glued them onto the same pants and shirt he wore for his costume last year! (So the total cost was about $2 for the felt.) He learned the names of the bones, and he LOVED having his face painted.
I was at Goodwill (in Tacoma, Washington of all places) and was looking around for a red shirt and pants to make Everett's costume. I found this Elmo outfit for 6 bucks! It is way too big for him, so I cut off half the legs and made one of them into the hat. Ping pong balls are the eyes, and the nose I just made out of orange felt. I didn't plan on painting his face, but after seeing Carson he just couldn't live without it.
And oh, sweet Faye, how I love having a GIRL!!! The idea for the costume came from here. I decided to make the whole thing a part of the onesie instead of a separate piece. So I just cut and sewed the feather shapes out of turquoise felt, adding some batting and the stick part of the peacock feathers in sandwiched in the middle. I used the same felt to hot glue the feathers on the front of the onesie. I ended up just using straight pins to attach the feathers to the back of the onesie. It was way too thick to sew. I had a safety piece of sandwiched felt on the inside of the onesie so she couldn't get poked. I hot glued all the peacock feathers to the back of the felt feathers. I found the sequin fabric last-minute and added it on with hot glue, of course! For the orange tights, I just happened to have white tights and RIT dye on hand!! I tried to come up with a cool headpiece but decided she would just rip it off anyway, so in 5 seconds I made this little clip. Isn't she ADORABLE?!?!?!?!?! (Also, I did take pictures of the process of making the peacock costume, if anyone wants a tutorial.)
Happy Halloween!!
6 comments:
Those are great costumes! And I especially love Faye's!
Love the costumes! I'm so impressed by your craftiness!
That peacock is to die for!! Nice job. It's so, so darling.
faye is now my computer background at work.
SOOOOOO cute! How funny, Haven is a peacock too! Faye's costume is much cuter though...Haven's was a $2 end of season purchase last year. Maybe I'll copy Faye's for Ellery next year? Really really cute...
I had NO idea you made Everett's costume!!!! It TOTALLY looked store bought. Props to you on that one and way to make the skeleton making an anatomy class along the way!
Of course you know I thought Faye had the cutest baby costume by far!
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