How to Make a Halloween Costume
Supplies and Tools
- Picture of child’s dream costume
- Felt (of appropriate color(s)
- Sewing machine
- Scissors
- Shoelaces
- Timtex
- Liquid Paper (correction fluid)
- Aleen’s Craft Glue
The Halloween costume, except for some decoration, which are drying, is finished. The Darling Child is happy and I didn’t have to buy anything except 2 yards of black felt. I like using felt for Halloween costumes, because the raw edges don’t ravel. You can also just cut it off, glue things to it and cut strange shapes out of it with no problem. The costumes are a bit fragile and don’t usually last long. You can see the cloak that I made by looking at this picture from Wikipedia.
I didn’t have any white paint, so I used Liquid Paper to create the whorls on the red emblem the Darling Child needed.
I only had enough red to make five of the emblems, so we had to place them carefully for maximum effect.
It is kind of fun to make the Halloween costumes – to make a child’s Halloween dream come true. It is also fun to kind of figure out how to make something work with what you have on hand. I always buy enough felt to get through the main part of the project, but inevitably, I don’t think farther than that. One costume I made needed a fat tail that stood up. I used a paint stirrer to keep it stiff enough. That was before I knew about Timtex.
Liquid paper, how clever! At first I thought you had come up with some kind of exotic new material, then I finally realized that you are just very resourceful.