For my Halloween costume this year, I decided to be a Funky Butterfly. I sketched out a wing design and used it as a pattern. I took a normal cotton sheet and cut out the wing shapes, allowing four pieces for the top halves and four for the bottom halves. I then separated the wings … Read more
This was another throw-together-quickly costume. I spent nothing on it and used what I had on hand from making other costumes. Materials Needed – Wings: * Heavy-duty Wire (Mechanic?s Wire) * Zip Ties * 4 (13 Gallon) Garbage bags (Color of your choice) * Fabric Strip * Glitter Glue OR Spray Adhesive and loose glitter … Read more
The skirt of this Butterfly Ballerina Costume is several layers of tulle with some feather butterflies sewn on. The hair is 3 combs with butterflies hot glued to wire about 10 per comb. I sewed some more butterflies to a ribbon and made a finger loop at each end and then wrapped them around the … Read more
This is our Homemade Butterfly and Alien Costumes. My mom was an alien, a simple and fast costume: black tee shirt and pants. goofy horned hat. goofier sunglasses. a light up belt made of silver vinyl ribbon from the craft store and battery operated rice lights poked through from the back. It was clipped together … Read more
My daughter wanted a Pink Butterfly costume. I’ve never seen a pink butterfly so we decided to use our imaginations. The Butterfly costume was pretty easy to make. We purchased foam board for the wings, pink paints circle stickers and jewels to decorate it. We also purchased a pink hat and pipe cleaners for the … Read more
The dress for this butterfly costume was bought from someone who made it, I made the wings myself. I took a huge piece of cardboard and covered it in pink silky fabric with black lining and made a pattern with it. Then, I outlined the wings with battery operated Christmas lights. It lit up when … Read more
Our costume was conceived when a friend asked what Sadia (my daughter) was going to be dressed as for her first Halloween which was only 2 days away! Originally I thought maybe something pink since that’s my favorite color but my good friend had an even better idea: “How about a butterfly?” Instantly I agreed … Read more