Costumes are one of my favorite things to make. Especially if I get to be creative when I do it. My little miss always has some fun ideas for costumes. Last year she chose Astrid, from How to train your Dragon. I was super excited. Astrid is Sassy, Strong and smart. Just what I want my daughter to be! This is a great costume if you have a daughter and a son to make your dragon!
Disney Descendants Mal Coronation Dress
This little girl has my whole heart. She loves ruffles, crafting, sewing, playing with bugs and digging inthe dirt. SO when she said she wanted to be Mal from Disney’s Decendants for Halloween I rolled my eyes. Up until now she has let me pick her costumes. Some of my favorites are Rainbow Brite, Astrid from How to train your Dragon and Little Bo peep. But this year was a little different.
Orion Constellation Costume
A while back my son had to do a project in school about outer space. He had to dress up or create a project about space. Now my boys have always loved learning about space and space travel so this project was right up our alley. Instead of doing a project, we decided to do a costume. I came up with this super easy Orion constellation costume.
Paw Patrol Zuma Halloween Costume
I know Halloween is over but this Mom just didn’t get time to blog about it. So here we are 1 week later and just getting costumes on the blog. My preschooler is in love with the Paw Patrol, especially Zuma.
He along with every other 4 year old.
He is obsessed.
The action figures have a permanent place on the front living room coffee table. He and his sister play for hours together. So when he asked to be Zuma, his favorite rescue pup, From Nick Jr.’s Paw Patrol I said let’s do it. [Read more…]
Frozen Princess capes
I am so excited to be sharing with you a month of Disney with Rachel over at R&R Workshop. Today I am sharing a fun cape you can make for your little miss. I think every little girl loves the movie Frozen. So I decided to make a Anna and Elsa cape that little miss can use for play time, Dressup a day in Disneyland or just for fun.
Super Hero Dress Ups and Costume
A few months ago I hosted a yard sale for a Youth Fundraiser. One of the donations was a simple super hero cape made by a neighbor who had passed away. Her family were cleaning out the house and decided to donate the old dress ups. I was totally intrigues by the simplicity of these capes and just had to recreate them in an updated version. So I began figure out the designs I wanted and how I would put them together. So today I will share how I made the basic cape and over the next couple of weeks I will share the individual images I made for each super hero. So First up is Spiderman!
Sherlock Holmes Costume from The Benson Street
It’s Time for a Masquerade Ball! I am so excited to share with you an amazing line up of Bloggers sharing their talents.
Rainbow Brite Costume
One afternoon I decided to share some of my childhood with my Little Miss. We sat down together and turned on You Tube. I decided to show her Rainbow Brite. She fell in love, and had to watch every episode.
Later when I asked her what she wanted to be for Halloween and she said Rainbow Brite. And the search began for a Rainbow Brite costume.
Here is how I did it.
Royal Blue fabric
1/4 yard Rainbow fabric
White t shirt
Rainbow leg warmers 2 pair
yellow felt
I started by making a circle skirt and using a wide elastic from Joann’s for the waist band.
I used a basic peasant shirt pattern. Instead of peasant sleeves I made a stiff flutter sleeve.
For the belt I used red for the sides and a rainbow fabric for the center. Then added red suspender style straps. Add a big star and you are ready to go.
Add your leg warmers to her arms and legs and she is ready to trick or treat!
{No Sew} Snake Charmer Costume, How to
My second son defiantly beats to his own drum. For Halloween this year he wanted to be the “devil”. I was not totally comfy with his choice so I sent him back to the “thinking board”. After much deliberation I finally convinced him to be a Snake Charmer. He has a small collection of stuffed snakes he got from the zoo and he enjoys teasing his sister with them. This is by far the easiest costume. It only took and hour to put together! Here how I did it.
Supplies:
Tunic shirt
baggy pants
scarf with tassels ( Go buy yourself a new scarf and let your sone use it for the day. Its a win win!
(2) $1 store baskets
snake
$1 store whistle or flute
1.5 yards cheap cotton fabric
Most of his costume is pretty self explanatory For the snake basket I glues the 2 baskets together. I cut the bottom of the top basket off so the snake could go inside.I also glued a piece of ribbon around the basket seams and the top of the basket.
I use a 1 foot piece of fishing line and tied one end to the whistle and the other to the snake. When they play and move the flute the snake will move too.
For the Turban I watched a few you tube videos to learn how to wrap and tie it.
So that’s it. Super simple. If you ever need a quick costume you can’t go wrong with this one. Happy Halloween!
Venus Fly Trap Costume, How To..
Whip up your own Venus Fly trap costume for your little scientist or bug lover. I have 3 sons. The two oldest love science. We have grown all kinds of science experiments in our kitchen window. plants, trips, sea monkeys. You name it we have probably tried it. Their favorite was the meat eating plants. We loved to catch flies and feeding them to our Venus Fly Trap. It is amazing how the slightest of touch triggers there mouths to close. Then I saw a costume for a Venus fly trap online. It inspired me to make his costume.
So this year after seeing this costume on Chasing Fireflies.I just had to convince my son to be a Venus Fly Trap for Halloween.
The price was a little out of budget so I decided to make my own version. Here is how I did it.
Supply list:
Green knit
Green Fleece
Orange Knit
Orange Fleece
White felt
Red felt
2 wire hangers
2 pieces foam core from the dollar store.
I started by cutting 2 large pieces of Green felt and orange knit for the head. I cut mine in huge leaf shapes. About 2 feet long by 18 inches wide. This measurement may be larger or small depending on the size of the childs head.
Cut 20-25 triangles from the white felt in various sizes. These will be used for the teeth. Once cut lay your green fleece on the table. Lay your white teeth with the points facing into the middle of the head along one long edge of the head. Lay the orange fabric on top. Pin into place and stitch along the one long edge.
Repeat this step with the other pieces.
Stitch around the finished edge. Making a 1/2 inch pocket for adding your coat hangers.
Cut 2 large pieces of Peltex or TimTex. The same shape but slightly smaller than the leaf shape.
Slide the Peltex into the leaf shape in between the orange and green fabric. This will give head of the fly trap some shape. For the piece that will be the bottom cut a hole out of the center of the peltex for your childs head. Make it an inch or two larger than the head.
Slide the Peltex in between the fabrics.
Stitch around the inside of the hole to combine the top and bottom fabrics. cut the center of the circle out. Your child’s head should be able to fit through it. The fleece is stretchy. be sure not to cut your circle to big.
Sandwich your top and bottom together.
Make a French seam. Stitch around the outside edge. Flip inside out and stitch again around the finished edge. Be sure to leave one corner open for adding wire.
Stitch around the inside of the hole to combine the top and bottom fabrics. cut the center of the circle out. Your child’s head should be able to fit through it. The fleece is stretchy, be sure not to cut your circle to big.
To make the shirt I used a raglan style shirt my son has as a template. Cut it out and stitch shirt together.
I also used the orange knit to make a hood that attached to the shirt.
Cut 4 hood pieces.
Sew 2 together around the rounded edge. Do this for all pieces. Then with right sides together sew the two sections together. This makes it so you don’t have to finish seams.
Flip your hat right sides out and attache to your shirt at the neck line.
For the hands I cut 4 horseshoe shape gloves of each the orange and green fleece. lay the green fleece down add your teeth, and place the orange fleece on top. Stitch around the edge leaving the bottom flat edge open.
Sew your gloves onto the sleeves of the shirt.
I found a few flies at the dollar store. I also used strand of ivy from the dollar store.
For the pot I used foam core from the dollar store. I spray painted them and cut them the shape of a pot. I used my vinyl cutter and cut out my “feed me” sign. To secure the pot I added fabric loops on the inside and threaded a belt through it.
