This year we needed the costumes a full week before Halloween for a friend’s Halloween themed birthday party. I guess it’s now a Halloween tradition, and I’d hate to break that tradition so I guess I will continue to complete costumes late the night before we need them.

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The top is a little tight to get on, I may have to add a zipper if she wants this to remain part of her dress-ups, so I choose to just use some fabric painton the pants (we need to have the stretch and movement in the pants). Each project begins with a passion for true quality–embroidered patches, faux fur cut with care, and hand-selected fabrics that are as durable as they are comfortable. The outfit may not give your child any real lava superpowers, but it will certainly make her feel ready to face off against any bad guy who threatens the Planet of Drool. To make the “lava” really look like it was on fire, I also added a single string of gold sequin ribbon right down the middle. This year the hubby and I have decidedto reuse Halloween costumes from years past since I was running out of time and we couldn’t decide on something for us to dress up as to match the kids costumes.

So when I couldn’t convince them to pick something else to be for Halloween (I even tried my darnedest to get my 4 year old daughter to be ANY princess), I decided to just go for it and make them the costumes they wanted. And my son is insisting that he needs arm cuffsfor his costume, I told him I would try to make some before Halloween.With this Lavagirl Girls Costume, your child will have step into the role of the fiery-tempered hero from the Miramax film, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D. So I had her put on the sweatsuit and used my fabric marking pen to mark out the general design (referring to a picture on my phone frequently). Just use a measuring tape to get an idea of how much you would need to wrap around their bodies with extra room to allow for movement. It saves me so much time, especially when I am layering different cuts of fabric to get 3 dimensional elementsto the costume.

There’s just something about a homemade costume, something full of love, and a little frustration, that makes the holiday more fun.I guess the kids could wear any of their dress-ups, but they might as well get to wear this year’s costume as many times as they can, right? I used 2 layers of felt glued together, the open shark mouth was cut out of the top layer, then I layered design elements on top with another layer of felt. This was a pretty decent costume, my daughter wore it 2 days in a row, by the end of the first day the back of it (where she sits down mostly so the backside) was a little worn like the material wasnt very strong or good quality, (knapping) only down part. These costumes needed extra textures and 3D things coming off them, so I used my Halloween favsof felt, cardboard, hot glue and fabric glue! Between work, school, grandparents, and the birthday party we will have an entire week of Halloween fun!