My oldest daughter (3) wanted to be a pirate for Halloween, so I dressed my younger child (7 months) up as her parrot. Gleaning ideas from the other parrot costumes on this site, I went to work.
I began by scouting online auctions for red bunting. I wanted the arms to have optional hand-covers (in case of extra-cold weather) and a hood was required. I found the perfect candidate and won the auction (for only $3 and change!)
From there I purchased sheets of felt in red, yellow, green and blue at my local craft store. I cut two of each layer so that I’d have mirror copies for each side, but mostly free-handed the wings and tail feathers. I assembled the wings by using patch glue and then sewed them into the seam of the bunting. I did something similar for the tail.
For the eyes I used white felt, cut two together and used patch glue to adhere them to the hood. I topped them off with large googly eyes purchased at the craft store. Then I free-hand drew the beak on yellow felt, cut it out and sewed the pieces together. Once sewn, I turned them right-side out, stuffed it with batting and attached it to the hood.
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I am looking for a good-looking relatively simple bird costume, and this is one of the best I’ve seen!
this is the best bird costume I’ve seen so far… thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the idea, it’s too cool!