by Maria Donnelly
“Where’s Waldo?”
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At Halloween City the Waldo costume is $39.99
Materials: white long sleeve shirt, white hat, glasses (preferably round), red pom pom and red sharpie or red fabric/felt
- Either draw lines with red sharpie or cut red strips of fabric/felt and sew them to the shirt and hat.
- Sew or glue a red pom pom to the top of the hat.
- Put on your glasses
- Bam! Where’s Waldo?
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Hot Dog
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At Halloween City the hot dog costume is $34.99
Materials: red and tan fabric (optional: dark red and yellow fabric)
- Cut both the tan and the red fabric to body length.
- Wrap tan sheet around your body.
- Cut the fabric at the inside of your shoulder bone on each side.
- Cut the long sides of the tan sheet to a rounded shape.
- Cut the red fabric to the length between your shoulders.
- Place the red sheet inside the tan and sew along the edge.
- Try on the costume and cut hole into the tan fabric for your head.
- Optional: Cut wavy strips of the dark red and yellow fabric and sew it to the red fabric.
- Now you are a hot diggity dog.
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Religious Figures
Nun
At Halloween City the nun costume is $24.99
Materials: white headband, two large black sheets and small white sheet
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- To create the dress, fold one of the black sheets in half and cut to the length of your body from shoulders down.
- Cut a hole in the center of that sheet for your head.
- Place the sheet over your head and using chalk or pins mark the area below your arms.
- Sew down the long sides, but not the area from the fold to the pin or mark.
- Create sleeves using second black sheet. Wrap it loosely around your arm marking overlapping area and wrist area.
- Cut the extra sheet off and repeat for second arm.
- Cut a rectangle using the extra black fabric and glue or sew to the white headband.
- Cut a rounded rectangle on the white sheet slightly larger than the shoulder to shoulder measurement.
- On the rounded rectangle cut a hole the size of your head close to one of the edges.
- Next thing you know you are holy.
Monk
At Halloween City monk costume is $34.99
Materials: two large brown sheets and a rope.
- Use steps 1-6 from the nun costume with the brown fabric to make the dress.
- Cut two pillow case size rounded rectangle from the extra fabric and then a hole in the middle of one rectangle
- Sew 3 sides of the uncut rectangle to the inside of the hole of the other rectangle.
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Chicken
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Homemade by junior Elaine Kerr
Materials: jumper, padding, felt, feathers, and a hood
from an animal pattern
- Sew padding to the jumper
- Cut a felt board into a wing style and loosely glue feathers on top.
- Sew elastic to the wings so that arms can go through the elastic
- Sew felt eyes on the hood
- Sew beak in between the eyes
- Add details that you feel look like a chicken
- Then next thing you know you are laying eggs
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Domo
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Homemade by junior Elaine Kerr
Materials: Cardboard box, brown fuzzy fabric, Styrofoam, felt,
and spray paint
- Cut two arm holes and a square in the front of the cardboard box
- Cover a cardboard box with brown fuzzy fabric,
- Cut a big hole for the mouth attached and Styrofoam tongue, and white felt teeth on it
- Cut two black felt circles and attach them to the top of the box
- Spray paint a big red block on the Styrofoam and cut a hole in it
- Cut two brown sleeves and stuff them with paper as arms then sew them on the box in the arm slots
- Put on the costume and time travel back to your childhood
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