A couple months ago, I stumbled upon what I thought was a terribly cute little chick Halloween costume for my little girl. I think the striped tights won me over. Anyway, when I brought it home to show them, I jokingly asked my son, “so do you want to be an egg for Halloween?” and he answered in the affirmative. I figured he’d forget about it a day later (or decide to be a bulldozer instead). Instead, he started asking me where his egg costume was. After a quick search told me I wasn’t going to find one, at least not easily, I decided it couldn’t be that difficult to make.
I always wanted to be the kind of mom who wasn’t afraid to tackle homemade costumes (among other homemade things), so I figured an egg wouldn’t be too hard to mess up, right? I started experimenting with an old t-shirt of my husbands, which ripped during the first try-on. I rummaged around and found some cream colored (we’ll call it eggshell) flannel in my scrap fabric pile, and it was exactly the right size. At least I thought it was, since I was making this thing up as I went.
I folded it in half, cut out a neck hole and arm holes and sewed the seam together. I then sewed in a band of elastic around the bottom hem to cinch it in, and to give it an egg-like shape. Turns out sewing in elastic is about half as hard as I thought it would be. I added a lining and stuffed it with some quilt batting, then sewed the lining shut. I found some bright yellow fabric in my scrap pile and made a round yolk on the tummy. Finally, I cut out a jagged star burst pattern for a hat, stuffed it with some more batting, added an elastic band and called it a day.
The most exciting thing is that when he tried it on, it didn’t look half bad. I mean, I wouldn’t try to make a costume business out of this or anything, but it isn’t unheard of that I try to tackle a project like this and end up with a total mess and nothing to show for it. It looked a little silly, but I loved it, and so did he. I’m sure it’ll be just a few years until he’s wanting to be a pirate-ninja-monster, so I’m embracing the egg.
Total cost: I had bought a new bag of batting for about $4, but then discovered I had some at home. So minus that expense, this whole thing ended up costing about $1.50 for the elastic since I used leftover fabric for everything else.
He loved the costume, and being the oldest, it looks like in our house the egg came first.
Happy Halloween!
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That is just too….. cute. And the look on his face is priceless. lol. Love the costume and can’t wait to see the chicken with him. Pictures must come soon! Remember your Raggedy Ann constume. One of my favorites of you!
Great job Kelli!!! He looks so proud and happy that he is an egg. Creating the home-made costumes is so much more fun. We always created James’. One of my favorite Halloween’s was when James wanted to be a dog. You may remember. I made the dog costume and he looked adorable. Andy came over that Halloween, so we had to create a costume for him. He dressed as a girl. We still laugh at the pictures and the good time they had trick-or-treating. Can’t wait to see the chicken and egg pictures.
From the look on Mason’s face – he is proud of your handiwork. He is a genuine egg!!! Sydney’s costume is also cute. I’m sure they were given lots of treats since no one wanted to be tricked by those two dangerous looking goblins!