I know it's sorta late to post pics of the Halloween costume that Susanna and I made for our 7 year old kid-friend, but I finally gave up on getting him back in costume so that I could take the pictures I wanted, and decided that these are decent enough pics, considering that they actually EXIST.
He wanted to be the Dungeons and Dragons version of a black dragon. We used the fig I posted here as a model for making it.
My friend Susanna and I made this costume in one night, and truthfully, she made most of it. I was there the whole time, doing stuff she directed me to do, but she made it happen.
I made the horns from stuffing a couple of those stocking pantyhose that you buy in the little plastic bubble for 30 cents at WalMart. I put a wire inside the stuffed hose to give shape to the horns, and handstitched and gathered the thread for texture.
Susanna built the mask, which is actually a hat, on a ready-made small child's baseball hat. There is a snap on the material that hangs down from the hat, so he can snap it to cover his face, or un-snap if he's tired of covering up.
She mounted 2 big wires inside a tiny backpack, which she attached the dragon wings to. The wings were made from pleated contractor bags. I hand-stictched the pleats because we forgot to buy staples for the stapler. We dis-assembled a plastic "caveman" necklace and attached claws at the tips of wings with black duct tape.
The backpack was an easy way to fit the wings on him, and to make sure they would go on and off easily. It was also a great place for him to store his claw gloves when he was not using them.
We used black plastic fake fingernails as claws to attach to his gloves and to glue onto the cheap black sneakers we bought him to go with his costume. Oddly enough, he really liked the shoes and continued to wear them for several days after Halloween.
It was a quick job, but a very gratifying one. It was great to see a kid come home from school basking in the glow of how cool he looked all day. We love our kid-friend and hope we can make his costume again next year!
2 comments:
I want one! A seven-year-old to dress up, that is. :)
The costume is SO excellent. I'm blown away by how much he really looks like the figurine. You know you did a great job when the little guy keeps wearing his dragon shoes. :)
I hope you get to make his costume next year, too. I'd love to know what he picks. He's quite an edgy, cool kid if he wanted to be a D&D character.
doesn't look like a quick job to me!
wow!
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