There is a kid about size 2T-3T who needs a costume. I have lots of cloth and can sew, but I need ideas. I have never met him, so I don’t know what he would specifically like. I was thinking a cute animal costume, like the puppy dog costume I made for my son last year. The little kid is black, so some things are right out, like the cute little racoon costume I considered for about a half second until my brain kicked in and reminded me of unpleasant slang. I could also do something like a clown. I won’t do any licensed characters for various reasons. I have solid rainbow colors of broad cloth, some purple velvet, some felt in gray, brown and white. I have some purple and yellow cotton check, some denim, some rainbow stripe broad cloth, some white fleece, and much much more. I want to get it done today and surprise the mom with it. As soon as I settle on an idea, I can start sewing.
I found some purple fleece and green scale pattern cotton. I am thinking maybe a purple and green dragon? Does that sound good?
LOVE the idea of a little dragon! We’ll want pics, of colurse!
Capes are easy – purple velvet cape and he’s a king. White fleece collar = ermine?
Google for images to the words “anne geddes”.
Thank you for the suggestion, but now I am thinking about the Anne Geddes Karma Sutra :eek:!
Lots of good ideas here :dubious:
I watched that one yesterday. I really liked the robot anti prancing costume.
I just read that thread and now I’m wondering what the babies hung by meat hooks looks like. I mean, it links to another picture because apparently you can’t link to actual pics or something. The pic it links to is creepy, though! They all look like aborted fetus babies.
My wife made our son a Frankenstein costume when he was 2.
A piece of foam carved so it sat on his head a few inches high and was flat on top.
Then she covered it with green felt and extended the felt to cover his neck and fasten under his chin. She added black felt for the hair and made some neck bolts with shiny silver fabric.
A tattered black jacket with shoulder pads and tattered pants completed it.
My wife made pirate costumes last year (3.5 yo daughter, 3.5yo nephew, and 2.5yo niece), this year (4.5yo daughter) she’s doing “Little Bo Peep”, but Bo Peep won’t work for a little boy (I assume).
Pirates are fun, and straight forward. Trousers, shirt, vest, and “do rag.”
well, the Frankenstein’s monster sounds cute, but I don’t have green felt. I did have yellow and i used it for the dragon belly.
I am now working on the wings. I almost forgot the wings!
Ok, costume is delivered. Curtis won’t be the only boy at his pre-school not in a costume. His mom seems very nice.
How did you get him to keep the head covering on? My nephews rip off any hat that is placed on their heads.
Put the kid, whole, in a brown burlap sack.
Cut holes for eyes, arms & legs.
Cover his ass end with aluminum foil, glued to the burlap.
Write Product Of Idaho across the front, in thick black marker.
BAM!
You got a baked potato costume.
OMG!! That is freakin’ adorable! You need to do this professionally! Seriously… that is better than costumes I see for sale. Any pics with the wings??
It is better than most you see for sale. It serged all the seams so there are no roughor raw edges. It should be washable. My son still wears the puppy dog hood I made him last year for play. I would be willing to make costumes professionally.
Other Halloween sewing for this year:
She made it so it fit on more like a winter hat that fastens under the chin face fully exposed. He was used to wearing hats in the winter so he didn’t mind it.