Woodland Deer Halloween Costume

How to Make a Woodland Deer Halloween Costume

A woodland deer or fawn is a fun and simple costume for Halloween. A deer Halloween costume can work for a boy or a girl, just adapt the head piece.

This deer Halloween costume will take a few stitches of hand sewing if you would like to save the clothing used as the base of the costume. If you don’t care, you could hot glue the felt pieces directly onto the clothing.

I used 8 ½ x 11” felt pieces (it only takes 3 pieces of each). You will start with an all brown outfit in your kiddo's size. The shoes can be anything, but black would be great (to look like hooves).

Cut white felt tummy and back spots

Use one piece of the white felt and round the corners to make an oval. Using a double thread and a running stitch around the outside of the oval, sew this onto the front of the brown shirt.

Cut a series of about 12-13 circles that are a variety of sizes 1-2” in diameter. Sew these in a random pattern on the back of the brown shirt.

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Make a deer tail and hooves

Cut a heart shape of white felt about 4-5” tall. Cut a second heart of brown felt slightly smaller than the first. Sew this onto the bottom of the back of the brown shirt, sew through both layers of felt. This is the tail.

Cut 1 ½-2” strips of black felt to use around the cuffs of the brown shirt sleeves and around the cuffs of the pants. Hand sew these on. These are hooves in case you were wondering!

Create Deer ears

The headpiece for the deer Halloween costume is made using a brown headband OR a brown ball cap (or a ball cap you have painted brown with acrylic paint). Our deer costume was made with a headband.

To make the ears, fold one piece of brown felt in half, hamburger style. Cut an ear about 5” tall and about 21/2” wide WITHOUT cutting off the folded edge. Wrap one ear around the headband about 2” from the center and then hot glue the two pieces of the ear together. Repeat with the second ear 2” the other direction from center. Hot glue. Cut two pieces of white felt that are slightly smaller than the ear and glue one to the front of each felt ear.

How to make deer antlers

Find two branches from the yard that are about 6-7” inches tall and forked/branched to look like antlers. Working with one at a time, place a large circle of hot glue on the top of the headband and hold the antler in it till it cools. Add more hot glue to the base and hold till it cools. Repeat until the antler feels sturdy. Then repeat with the second antler.

A couple flowers can be glued to the base of the antlers for a girl, for a boy a bit of floral moss or leave plain.

A second option is to use the brown hat to mount the ears and antlers. Hot glue each ear so that the felt won’t open up into two flaps. Then glue the two ears to the left and right side of the brim of the hat.

Hot glue the antlers to the front of the hat, between the ears. You can still add the flowers onto the brim of the hat if you want.

Note: You will want to remove the headband/ball cap with antlers when getting into the car!!

More Halloween Costumes for Kids and Adults

On the lookout for more Halloween costume ideas? Check out the list below! You can make all of these at home and can adapt the ideas for both kids and adults.

Enjoy!

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