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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