Homemade Caterpillar Halloween Costume Idea
Metamorphosize your little larvae with this cute getup.
Submitted by
Erin
Erin
Think your baby can't get any cuter? Guess again! This Halloween costume idea will make your babe adorably buggy!
- 1 infant gown sleeper (I used pink, but green, blue or yellow would also work great)
- 6 pieces of 12-inch felt (in various colors)
- 5 styrofoam balls
- Hot glue gun & sticks
- 8 feet of 1/2 inch ribbon
- Rick-rack
- Infant hat (a matching color to the sleeper)
- 2 pipe cleaners
- 10 pom-pom balls
Dab a bit of glue in the center of one square of felt. Carefully place a styrofoam ball in the glue. Using more glue, wrap the felt around the ball until the ball is covered. Trim any extra felt. There will be a gap in the coverage but that's OK. Repeat until all five balls are covered. Set balls aside.
Trim the corners off of the remaining piece of felt so it looks like an oval. Carefully glue rick-rack around the edge.
Place the sleeper back-side down on the counter. Glue the rick-rack trimmed oval to the front of the gown sleeper. Let cool.
Place the sleeper front-side down on the counter.
Cut the ribbon into four 2-foot sections. Glue a pom-pom ball onto each end. Lay the ribbons across the gown sleeper at even intervals. Glue down with a dot of glue in the center.
Carefully glue the five felt-covered balls onto the back of the gown sleeper, letting the ribbons hang down on each side. Let cool.
Glue a pom-pom ball onto the top of two pipe cleaners. Glue the pipe cleaners onto the infant hat and curl so that they look like antenae.
- Here's another creative idea for Halloween! Get creative with your colors! Make a blue-and-green themed caterpillar or a bright rainbow-colored caterpillar.
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