Woodland Owl Halloween Costume
How about making an easy Woodland Owl Halloween Costume for those kids needing a fun costume? Being an owl is a hoot!
Servings: 1 Costume
Cost: $20
Equipment
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
- Straight pins
- Sewing machine
Ingredients
- 1 Solid brown sweat pant (size of grandchild)
- 1 Solid brown shirt or turtleneck (size of grandchild)
- 1 yard Brown fabric for cape
- 2 packages Brown double wide seam binding tape for cape edges
- 4 inches Velcro for cape
- 12 inches Black ½ inch elastic for cape
- Brown sewing thread
- 12 10×12” sheets of felt in dark brown
- 10 10×12″ sheets of felt in tan
- 10 10×12″ sheets of felt in pink (or other color if preferred)
- 1 10×12" sheet of felt in orange
- 1 Brown or black head band
- 2 Plastic drinking straws
- Hot glue
Instructions
- For the owl “breast feathers”, cut 4 inch scalloped edged strips from the brown, tan and pink felt. Overlap them and either hot glue them together as shown or sew them together if you prefer.
- They need to be a size that will cover the tummy area of the child like a breast plate.
- Make a “Bird Wing Cape” out of brown fabric according to the instructions found here: https://welcometonanas.com/sew-super-kid-cape-dress-up-halloween/.
- 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.
- 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 and then sew them down.
- 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.
- Cut the elastic into two 6 inch pieces. Sew one 6 inch piece of elastic to the inside of each “wing” of the cape by zig zagging well on each end of the elastic.
- 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.
- Hot glue on two large round white eyes (could use a jar lid for a pattern). Hot glue on two quarter sized black circles for pupils. Hot glue on a triangle cut from the orange felt for the beak.
- Open the owl mask up and cut two plastic drinking straws to fit up the face and into the ear section. Hot glue the straws in place.
- Fold the owl face in half again, hot gluing it together.
- Hot glue the face to the top of the headband.
- Add tan 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 the the lashes to the tops of the eyes.