How to Make a Turtle and Ladybug Costumes

Jennifer Perkins: This year are you stamping on a really cute and a really creative costume to make for you kids? I’m going to show you how to make a turtle and the lady bug. First step let’s get started on our turtle. I have two circles of green felt, now the way I decided on a size for this is you get the howdy according to your kiddo style. Our smaller felt circle needs to be about the size of the back of the howdy, you want your larger circle to have about a three inch border out and that’s because you are going to glue big circle to little circle and it’s going to make your turtle show back. We are going to start by hot glue gunning at four points here, here, here and here. And set it down and I’m going to do the same thing here. Just get those four points end and now you have your four points going. And so from here it’s going to be make it easier for you to go along the edge and kind of gather it and glue it down. Except for one, you leave one little hole open and while that’s open then you will come in and you will going to start put an octagon on our show. We made a larger octagon out of a line green color and they will need a smaller octagon out of the darker green color so that when you stock among top of each other it looks like a little turtle show part. So once you have that base layer of your little turtle shows on then you will bring in the pillow stuffing and you would stuff the show. Finish gluing up your little edge, you would finish going all the way around, all the away at the top to get your turtle show. This going to pin in on, the big jumbo stuff safety pins, stick it on the edge and put it on your turtle back and pin it right on. So, it’s already looking cute, we’ve got a couple of other little finishing touches we are going to do. You want to your little turtle a belly so we just use a piece of thin felt, another little touch that I love is to give your turtle some eyes. Cuts some pieces of line green felt about this big you want to kind of put in there in the green of the howdy and add some giggly outs away. Puts on this little howdy, it’s got a little eye has little poppy show on the back. They’re really cute, really easy costume. You could wick the color in the shape of your puff to make some other fun costumes like a little bug.