Wow- has it really been an entire year since I joined
Pinterest? As I sit here compiling
pictures for this guest post, I realize it really
has been a full year, since my idea to turn my daughter into a peacock for
Halloween originated from a pin I found last year. Pinterest has this uncanny ability to steal
all sense of time and reality from our lives, doesn’t it?
The idea came from fellow blogger Creatively Christy, and I have to give her props because her costume came out absolutely
adorable. So adorable that I knew I had
to redesign the costume with some twists of my own.
While I unfortunately don’t have all of the step by step
pictures of how I made the costume last year, I’ll do my best to explain the
steps I took along the way.
The items you’ll need for
this project are:
·
1 yard of metallic
sequined fabric in your color of choice
·
Half a yard of
sequined elstic ribbon
·
One large piece
of card board (one part cut in a 10x10 square) the remaining to be used for the
peacock feathers
·
Hot glue gun
·
Pillow stuffing
or batting
·
2-3 packages of small
decorative feathers (I couldn’t find the teal feathers that Christy used so I
chose to go bold and bright with lots of different colors)
·
6-8 long stemmed
large decorative feathers
·
6-8 long stemmed peacock feathers (I found mine at
Hobby Lobby)
·
1-2 shorter
smaller peacock feathers (for the head band)
·
Flashy tights or
leggings to go under the costume and keep your kiddo’s legs warm
·
A long sleeved
t-shirt/onesie and maybe a comfy jumper
to keep her warm
I began my costume planning
by choosing what Mackenzie would wear underneath her peacock gettup. While
Creatively Christy used a onesie and some tights for her daughter, my own
daughter was a year or two older and long past the onesie age. I used a long sleeve GAP turtle neck and a
GAP fleece jumper.
For her legs I bought X-Large knee highs from
the girl’s section in Target. These
actually worked perfect because they were large enough in the feet for me to
slip right over Mack’s tennis shoes.
Sure, there were holes worn through by the end of Trick or Treating, but
they worked their purpose for the evening. They went straight into the garbage
when we got home….along with all of the non chocolate halloween candy ;)
(Pictured above is the yard of sequined fabric, the
cardboard and the elastic ribbon)
I began the actual costume by creating the body. I covered the cardboard with the sequined
fabric and then used the hot gun for each of the sides, making sure to leave
one of the sides open…
I knew that I wanted to use the pillow batting to stuff inside
and make the body of the costume fuller.
After the batting was added, I used the hot glue gun to
close up that fourth side completely.
When the fourth side was close up, I measure Mackenzie’s
waist and hot glue the sequined elastic
ribbon to the back sides of the body of the bird. I made sure it was tight enough that it
wouldn’t be sliding down her belly while out for candy.
Next, I cut five individual
peacock feathers from the remainder of my cardboard and I began to cover them
with the remainder of the seaquin fabric (again leaving one side completely
open
Once I finished covering my cardboard, I again stuffed the
pillow batting inside to give the feather some extra body. I then glued the bottom shut. Repeat this for
each of the feathers and arrange them onto your covered cardboard. You will start to see the shape of your
peacock coming together.
Once I had finished attaching each of my covered cardboard
feathers (I’m only showing two in the pictures I’ve posted), I began to arrange
and glue on my decorative feathers.
After a LOT of hot glue and a LOT of feathers (include your
peacock feathers somewhere in there too), this is what I ended with.
The last step was to make
Mackenzie’s headband and I did this by repurposing an old stretchy pink band we
had and (again) hot gluing feathers around the crown.
I love how my little peacock turned out. And she did too. In fact, a year later, she still wears her
costume around the house when playing “dress up”.
And lastly, my favorite picture of Halloween night. Who can resist a little peacock and her
daddy? For this shot, every feather and burn of the hot glue gun was worth it
;)
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