Quick & Easy Halloween Costumes
With
Halloween quickly approaching, it’s that time of year when costumes are on the
minds of young and old alike. Not quite
seeing what you want in the stores or looking for something just a little bit
different? Here are some great ideas that can be for girls or boys that are
quick and easy to create, and the best part- takes no sewing!
Meatballs
and Spaghetti
1. Cut
a hole for the head in the center of a red-checkered tablecloth (or
1.25 yards of 45-inch-wide red-checkered fabric) so that it can be
worn like a poncho.
2. Cut 1/2 skein
off-white yarn into spaghetti-length pieces. With a hot-glue
gun, glue them in swirls and bunches to a large, sturdy paper plate.
3. Paint 8 small
Styrofoam balls with brown acrylic paint to resemble
meatballs. Let dry, then glue 4 or 5 balls to top of spaghetti. Mix brown
and red acrylic paint to make a tomato-sauce color; drip that
over meatballs and spaghetti. Smear a little on the side of a small pot.
4. Glue the plate to the
front of the tablecloth.
5. Glue remaining meatballs
to tablecloth where you like.
Glue some strands of yarn to pot
"hat." Tie under chin if needed to keep pot on head.
Weather
Person Costume
All you need is:
a cardboard box, large helium balloon, dowels, fabric glue, burlap, batting,
rope, jute twine, an extra-large needle, foam weather stripping, tape, and, if
you want, a toy barometer, a lab coat, a clipboard, and binoculars
Lucky Duck Costume
This happy-go-ducky Halloween outfit is so simple
your kids can help make it. Hot-glue or hand-stitch yellow feather boa pieces
onto the sleeves of a yellow hoodie. Attach another 5-inch-long piece of boa to
the point of the hood. Finish the costume with yellow gloves, yellow
sweatpants, and yellow rubber boots.
Jack & the Beanstalk Costume
Bring a favorite storybook
character to life. Cut two pieces of burlap fabric for a tunic (use your
child's shirt as a sizing template). Stitch together the pieces and fray the
edges. Use iron-on letters to spell "Jack" on the costume's chest.
For the beanstalk, cut the legs and feet from a pair of green tights. Stuff the
legs with batting and stitch the ends together. Poke chenille-stem vines into
the stalk and twist to secure in place. Cut bean shapes from crafts foam and hot-glue
onto the stalk. Pin the stalk onto the tunic.
Octopus Baby Costume
This adorable sea creature is made
from three pairs of kid tights. A little stuffing and felt furniture pads (for
suction cups) make the octopus arms. Baby's actual legs peek out from among the
six stuffed ones to complete the eight appendages.
Dog Costume
Go for best-in-show with this easy
dog costume. Spray-paint brown spots onto a gray hooded sweatshirt and
sweatpants. Using our photo as a guide, cut out two identical tail pieces from
brown felt and sew together, leaving one end open. Stuff the tail with
fiberfill and whipstitch the tail to the seat of the sweatpants. Cut two floppy
ears from brown felt and whipstitch to the hood of the sweatshirt.
Scaly Serpent Costume
Turn a hooded sweat suit into a
scaly dragon. Cut fangs, horns, and eyeballs from white and green crafts foam,
and hot-glue them to the hood. Cut less-than-perfect circles from green crafts
foam and smaller circles from shimmery green fabric. Hot-glue foam and fabric
circles together to create scales, and glue them onto the sweat suit, shoes,
and trick-or-treat bag. Glue foam fangs inside the top of the treat bag
Banana Split Costume
Treat yourself to a tasty banana
split costume. Start by stitching two crafts-foam triangles to the top of
yellow pants. Top the peels with ice cream made by hot-gluing strips of quilt
batting around a white sweatshirt. For sprinkles, use hot-glue to add pink and
green chenille stems and pom-poms. Cover a foam ball with red modeling clay and
insert a red chenille stem in the top for a cherry. Glue the cherry to a white
hat covered with more batting and sprinkles.
Mac and Cheese
Start by saving cardboard paper
towel and toilet paper rolls to make this clever costume. No time to save cardboard rolls-just yellow
tag board or yellow construction paper.
Paint the cardboard paper towel and toilet paper rolls to a yellow rain
jacket. To make “the bowl” take a
laundry basket and cover it with blue butcher paper or blue cardboard.
Looking for more quick and easy to
make costume ideas that won’t break the bank? Come back next week for Part 2!
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As a non-sewing mom, THANK YOU! These costumes are adorable and sew (haha) flippin easy!
ReplyDeleteOMG...these are so stinkin' cute and I am ALL about no sew. Thanks Gayle!!
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