A Monster Halloween
November 1, 2011
Here’s something I never do: wait until the last minute. But that’s what happened with my costume this year. I waited until the very last minute to decide on something and execute it. If this monster looks a little familiar, it’s because I was madly and heavily inspired by this post over at Fiskars. Here’s how I did mine:
- Bought hoodie in little boys’ section at Target ($12.99)
- Purchased ping pong ball set, Target ($1.50)
- Crocheted horns, stuffed ‘em, sewed ‘em on.
- Cut ears out of felt. Sewed them on.
- Sewed felt teeth to inside of hood.
- Used Sharpie to make pupils on ping pong balls. Glued pin backs to ping pongs. Pinned them to hood.
- Used fusible web to stick felt spots on. THIS DID NOT WORK WELL. By the end of the night, a lot of the spots had fallen off.
- Made a pair of aqua-colored Peasy Gloves.
- Painted my nails blue. I never paint my fingernails, and this felt pretty strange.
- Tied on yarn hair extensions.
So, for 15 bucks and about 4 hours of craft time, I have a monster hoodie. I wanted it to last beyond Halloween, and that’s why I glued pin backs to the ping pong balls – I didn’t know how they would hold up in the wash. I’ll have to sew the spots on better for future uses.
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How was your Halloween? What was your costume? Did you party it up with friends, or take your kids Trick-or-Treating? My favorite costumes were Disco Nicky and Elliot (of E.T.) Josh:
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freakin crazy!!!!!!! i wanna trick’n'treat with all of you.
It did turn out a little crazy . . . that’s why there’s not more photos!
What a GREAT costume! It’s so creative and colorful….Bravo!
Thanks! I liked it, but next year I won’t wait until the 11th hour, for sure.
That’s a pretty cute monster hoodie
I went to a Halloween party on sat. night and dressed up in a Renaissance dress! It was lots of fun and on Halloween I handed out goody bags to the little monsters that stopped by, we had about 20.
Looks like you had a fun Halloween
That sounds awesome — where did you find your costume? I actually searched online for a costume this year, and ALL I could find was “Sexy This” or “Sexy That,” which is not my style at all. It was frustrating.
Also, your punkins were awesome!
I had the same issue with the sexy costumes! I actually found mine a few years ago, it was really expensive so I’ve worn it several years hehee
I may even wear it to the renaissance fair this month! I can email you picture if you wanna see the headpiece. And thank you about the pumplis they took all day to make haha
This is the dress http://www.museumreplicas.com/p-599-lady-jane-dress.aspx
but its sold on multiple sites and I actually got mine on sale. And I made a flower head piece with ribbons and stuff to match it.
That’s a sweet get-up — you’ll definitely get a lot of use out of it!
ah my dog outfit didn’t make it -__-’
Technically, that was pre-halloween!