Making Halloween Costumes

I actually made my kid's costumes this year! I am quiet proud!


My little girl has never worn the costumes we have purchased, so my plan this year was to make her costume more like clothes than a costume. She wanted to be a tiger, so I purchased the ears and tail and made the rest. Using a pair of her brothers old black jeans, I sewed some marabou to the bottoms to make them girly. Then I used an orange t-shirt, cut slates in it to resemble tiger stripes, sewed marabou onto the bottom, and put a black shirt on underneath. She looked pretty cute!

For my son, he wanted to be Curious George. I dyed some old pants and a new white shirt brown and found a great brown ski cap at Walmart that had a bill. With some felt and glue, he had a great Curious George face. We added in a balloon at the last minute and Dad went as The Man With the Yellow Hat. Too cute!

Making the Curious George costume and using a t-shirt to make the tiger costume made these pretty low fuss costumes. And it was nice to have something original. I will do it again next year.