Super Cute DIY Crayon Costumes

I'm going to go back in time a bit with this post, but I wanted to share the cute (if I do say so myself!) costumes I made for the girls to wear to their Halloween celebration at daycare last year.

I wish I could claim credit for this wonderful idea, but I can't. I stole the idea got my inspiration from the October 2009 issue of Parents magazine (see online article/instructions HERE).



Courtesy Parents.com



{I won't repeat the instructions seen at the link above as they are already nicely detailed, but I will note that I adjusted my measurements a bit to fit my girls better. Boogey was only 1.5 at the time so hers really needed to be compressed and made smaller.}

 

First I bought matching shirts and pants from Old Navy (on sale, of course!). Then I went to Michaels where I got 2 sheets (8.5 x 11, I think) of black self-adhesive felt and one package of black self-stick felt letters (I think I bought 2" letters).  

I ended up having to improvise a bit with my letters since I didn't have quite enough to make all of my words (and I certainly wasn't going to pay for 2 packs of letters! I'm cheap frugal, remember?? LOL). For example, I turned the "Z" sideways to make the "N" for "pink". And I used an upside down "V" and a piece of extra felt to make an "A". And a number zero was substituted as an "O".

I also didn't bother to make the hats - I knew they would NEVER stay on my toddler girls so didn't want to waste my time or the supplies.

Once again, this was pre-blogdom, so I don't have any photos of the process {SORRY!!}, but here they are posing the final product.

SweetPea and Boogey 2009

Boogey was "Pink"

SweetPea was "Magenta"

(I couldn't resist posting this one - could she BE any cuter??)

And the bonus of the whole thing... the next day, I simply peeled off all the felt and was able to use the shirts and pants as a regular outfit!

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Linking this project up to the CSI Project's DIY Halloween Costumes Challenge