Woodland Owl Halloween Costume

How to Make a Woodland Owl Halloween Costume

WHO wants to have some fun? How about making a Woodland Owl Halloween Costume for those kids of yours? Being an owl is a hoot! (Had to throw that in!)

But there's no need to feel left out, you can adapt this costume for any size child OR adult! It would make a cute matching family costume, wouldn't it?

Choose a Pair of Woodland Brown Pants & Shirt

Here is a great way to decorate a brown sleeper or pants and shirt for trick-or-treating or for dress up. There is a need for some machine sewing as well as some hot glue work.

Halloween costumes made from sleepers or sweat pants and shirts makes so much sense for so many reasons. Children find them easy to move around in, and they are so comfy. And, unless you get too carried away decorating them, it’s easy to get a coat over them for an especially cool evening!

 

Size Up for the growing child!

Check on what size your little grand is before starting. They shoot up so fast you know! Finding solid colored sleepers in the color you want may be tricky, so getting solid brown colored sweat pants and a solid brown colored shirt or turtle neck may be easier to locate. You may have a good option for purchasing such things close by, but for those of us that live in the boonies the internet is a great way to go. Mine were on the doorstep in three or four days, so convenient!

Create Owl Costume Tummy Feathers

For the owl “breast feathers”, cut 4 inch scalloped edged strips from brown, tan and pink felt. Overlap them until you have created a shape that will cover the tummy area of the child like a breast plate. You may either hot glue them together as shown, or pin and sew them together if you prefer.  This will be attached to the cape later.

How to Make an Owl Cape

Make a “Bird Wing Cape” out of brown fabric according to the instructions found here: Super Kid Cape Sewing Instructions. The cape should be as wide as your child’s arm span, so measure the child from knuckles to knuckles with arms stretched wide open and you'll have the measurement for the width of the cape.

Cut more 4 inch scalloped edged strips from the brown, tan and pink felt. Overlap them in the same way you did the breast feather piece until you cover the entire cape. Pin the strips to the cape, then sew them down.

Putting the Woodland Owl Costume together

Attach the “breast feather” piece you made earlier to the front neck of the cape by sewing Velcro pieces to each neck flap of the cape and to the top of the breast piece. You can then easily put the cape on the child by Velcro-ing (is that a word?) the cape’s neck flaps and then attaching the breast feather piece to the cape neck flaps. It works really slick!

Create the Owl Wings

Cut the elastic into two 6 inch pieces. Sew one 6 inch piece of elastic to the inside of each “wing” of the cape with a zig-zagging machine stitch on each end of the elastic. This allows the child to put their arms through the elastic, and causes the cape to become “wings” that move with the child’s arm movement.

How to Make a Woodland Owl Headpiece

Lastly, fashion the owl face headpiece. Fold one piece of the dark brown felt in half and cut the owl face shape out of both layers, leaving the folded edge on the bottom. Glue on two large round white eyes (you could use a jar lid for a pattern) and then two quarter sized black circles for pupils. A triangle cut from the orange felt is glued on for the beak.

No Floppy Owl Ears!

Open the owl mask up and cut two plastic drinking straws to fit across the face and up into the ear section. Hot glue them in place. Fold the owl face back in half again, hot gluing it together. This keeps the ears upright. No one wants floppy ears!

Now hot glue the face to the top of the headband.

Add eyelashes by cutting a one and ½ inch by 3 or 4 inch strip of tan felt for each eye and fringing it. Hot glue them to the tops of the eyes.

Choosing the Owl Costume Colors

If desired, you can use other colors of felt besides pink along with the tan and dark brown felt in your woodland owl Halloween costume. Perhaps blue or turquoise or peach…whatever you would like for your little owl!

Oh, and, you could enlarge this costume for an any sized child (even an adult) if you want!

Enjoy! "WHO" me? Yes, you!

Supplies for a Woodland Owl Costume:

• Solid brown sweat pant (size of grandchild)
• Solid brown shirt or turtleneck (size of grandchild)
• 1 yard brown fabric for cape
• 2 packages of brown double wide seam binding tape for cape edges
• 4 inches of Velcro for cape
• 12 inches of black ½ inch elastic for cape
• Brown sewing thread
• 12- 10x12” sheets of felt in dark brown
• 10- 10x12" sheets of felt in tan
• 10- 10x12" sheets of felt in pink (or other color if preferred)
• 1-10x12 inch sheet of orange felt
• Brown or black head band
• Two plastic drinking straws
• Hot glue gun and glue

More DIY Halloween Costumes

Looking for more Halloween costume idea inspiration? Check out these fun tutorials and patterns, all of which you can make yourself!

• DIY Animal Masks from Craft Foam
• Super Kid Cape
• DIY Buckskin Halloween Costume
• Woodland Deer Halloween Costume
• DIY Black Cat Halloween Costume

Enjoy!

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