This year, are you stumped on a really cute and a really creative costume to make for your kids? Well I have got four fun options for you to have two things in common. One they're made of built and two there no sew, hooray! I'm going to show you how to make a turtle, a gingerbread cookie, a zebra and a ladybug.
First step lets get started on our turtle. I have two circles of green film. Now the way I decided on the size for this is you get the hoodie according to your kid size are smaller belt circle needs to be about the size of the back of the hoodie. You want your larger circle to have about a three-inch border out and that’s because you're going to glue big circle to little circle and it’s going to make your turtle shell back.
We are going to start by hot glue gunning at four points, here, here, here and here and set it down. Then I'm going to do the same thing here. Just get those four points and now you have your four points going. And so from here it’s going to make it easier for you to go along the edge and kind of gather it and glue it down except for one. You’d leave one little hole open and once that’s open, then you would come in and we are going to start putting our octagon on our shell.
We made a larger octagon out of a lime green color and then made a smaller octagon out of a darker green color so that when you stack them on top of each other, it looks like a little turtle shell part. So once you have that base layer of your little turtle shells on then you would bring in the pillow stuffing and you would stuff the shell, finish gluing up your little edge you would finish going all the way around, all the way to the top to get our turtle shell. I'm just going to safety pin it on, the big jumbo style safety pins, stick on the each put it on your turtleback and pin it right on.
So it’s already looking cute, but we’ve got a couple other little finishing touches we are going to do. You want to give your little turtle a belly so we just use a piece of tent filth, another little touch that I love is to give your turtle some eyes. Cut some pieces of lime green filth, about this big. You want to kind of put them down on the brand of the hoodie and add some googly eyes the way it puts on his little hoodie his got his little eyes, his little puffy shell on the back they're really cute really easy costume.
You could tweak the color in the shape of your puff to make some other fun costumes like a ladybug.
Another fun filth costume idea is to make a gingerbread cookie. Now this actually uses a whole lot of filth because this costume is head to toe. I went to the fabric store and bought some brown filth and then you want to lay your kid down on the filth and you're going to trace them with either, you know fabric pencil or marker, just go all the way around, you know leaving some extra around there legs and around there arms and especially around there heads so they looked kind of cookieish.
And so you want to cut out two of these. This is actually two pieces of filth sandwiched together. I went all the way up to edges with the hot glue gun. Now on the front piece of your filth you want to be sure to cut off a circle and that’s where our little head is going to pop out. On the back here we need to leave a space for them to jump into their costume, we just hot glue gunned and some hook and loop tape and I actually just used the hook side because your filth will stick right to it. Then go back over it with some white craft paint, fabric paint and just add little trimmings on there you know like you would put icing on a gingerbread cookie to make it more realistic. We added some friend little red buttons and we also—so this one is for a little girl, added a friend little pearl necklace but you could tweak this design any which way you wanted to make it also work for a little boy.
Another option using the same concept is to cut an outline out with white filth and then come in and use pieces of black filth to make this into a zebra costume. It’s so cute and then you just add little ears on top and he is ready for safari. Now all these costumes are really easy to make and really inexpensive so if I tear it up, you don’t even have to worry about it and they are going to be a hit at Halloween and more importantly your going to be their Halloween hero.
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