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Easy Animal Costumes for Infants and Up
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Puppy
brown, tan, gray, black or white hooded sweatsuit
Fabric circles in a contrasting color (i.e. white suit, brown spots,
etc.)
2 sheets of felt in color matching sweatsuit
scissors
double sided tape
2 pairs of socks in color matching sweatsuit
dog collar or belt cut to size (optional)
Using small pieces of double sided tape, attach
fabric circles to sweatsuit in various different areas. Cut two floppy
ears from 1 sheet of the felt and either hand sew or hot glue onto the
hood. Keep in mind that hand sewing will make the ears easily removable
so you can reuse the sweatsuit after Halloween! Cut a long tail from the
second sheet of felt and attach to the back of the pants with a safety
pin. Have child wear one pair of socks on her hands and one pair on her
feet. Top off with a dog collar or a belt cut short to serve as a
collar.
Cat
gold, brown, tan, black, gray or white hooded sweatsuit
faux fur in color matching sweatsuit
fabric glue
felt in color matching sweatsuit
plastic headband
scissors
2 pairs of socks in color matching sweatsuit
dog collar or belt cut to size (optional)
If desired, use black marker to draw stripes on sweatsuit. Cut two
triangles for ears and hot glue to the headband. Cut a small oval shape
from the faux fur for the tummy area and adhere that with fabric glue.
Next make cuffs and a collar. Use the cuffs on the sweatshirt as a guide
for how wide and long you need to cut the faux fur strips. Attach the
strips to the sweatshirt using fabric glue. Cut a long tail from the
remaining felt and attach to the back of the pants with a safety pin.
Have child wear one pair of socks on her hands and one pair on her feet.
Top off with a dog collar or a belt cut short to serve as a collar.
Spider/Bug
black hooded sweatsuit
2 pairs of black socks
4 pair of black tube socks, nylon or polyester
cotton batting
Stuff the tube socks with cotton batting to make the spider's legs. Sew
or pin the eight legs to the sides of the black outfit. Have child wear
one pair of black socks on his hands and one pair on his feet.
Note for infants: When your baby crawls, the legs flop up and down on
the ground, making it look like a spider crawling across the floor.
Adorable!
Variation: To make a bug costume, use a green or brown (or any color you
like) sweatsuit and coordinating socks.
Spider Web
black hooded sweatsuit
white fabric paint, squeeze bottle
medium sized fuzzy spider
black plastic headband
hot glue
small plastic spiders
With white fabric paint in a squeeze bottle, paint a big spider web on
the front and back of the black sweatsuit. Paint a few smaller ones on
the pants. Hot glue the fuzzy spider to the plastic headband, allow to
dry. With two or three stitches, hand sew small plastic spiders to the
webs, don't forget the ones on the legs!
Tiger
yellow hooded sweatsuit
black or brown fabric paint
yellow felt
2 pairs of black socks
Paint black or brown stripes on the sweatsuit. For the ears, cut two
triangles from felt. Either hand sew or hot glue onto the hood. Keep in
mind that hand sewing will make the ears easily removable so you can
reuse the sweatsuit after Halloween! Cut a long tail from the remaining
felt and attach to the back of the pants with a safety pin. Have child
wear one pair of black socks on his hands and one pair on his feet.
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