How to Make Quick & Easy Superhero Costumes
Many kids dream of being a superhero with superpowers. Ask any group of young children and they will quickly rattle off a list of superpowers they could use to make the world a better place. Halloween provides an excellent opportunity to allow your child, or your own inner child, to become a superhero for the night. With a few inexpensive items you can make your own unique superhero costume and save the world from villains.
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Things You'll Need
- Long-sleeved T-shirt
- Leggings or pajama pants
- Fabric
- Scissors
- Needle and thread
- Fabric paint
- Adult socks
- Belt
- Superhero tools (optional)
- Scarf (optional)
- Cardboard
- Sticker dots
- Tape
Instructions
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Take a plain, long-sleeved T-shirt and pair of pajama bottoms or leggings. Coordinate the colors to make your superhero's persona, such as black for a nighttime hero or yellow for a sun-charged heroine. Draw your hero’s emblem on the front of the shirt and decorate it with fabric paints, fabric glitter, gem stones or other decorative items. The shirt will ride over the pants or leggings for a girl and inside the pants for a boy.
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Add designs with fabric paint to the legs of the pants or leggings. Suggestions include colorful jagged lightning designs, strange hieroglyphics or another design that has meaning to your superhero.
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Take a 10-by-18-inch piece of shiny material and sew it to the shirt at the shoulders and neck edge to serve as a cape. Add an emblem similar to the front of the shirt to the cape or create a completely different but complementary design.
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Use a pair of adult socks that will slip over the child’s shoes to make suitable boots for your superhero. Use fabric paint to add any designs to the boots. The boots will slide over the leggings or pants.
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Add a wide belt for your superhero. Tape or glue a large emblem over the buckle. Alternatively, use a wide scarf around the waist of a young girl and add the emblem to scarf with a few stitches on each side of the emblem. Tie the scarf in the back.
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Add tools for your superhero on the belt. Options include a short rubber dagger, a light saber, a wand or any other item that seems appropriate to the persona. Some items will slide into the belt and others may loop over the belt.
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Use 2.5-inch-wide pieces of cardboard to create gauntlets over the ends of the sleeve. Decorate with sticker dots for special weapons and wrist-controlled tools. Tape them in place.
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Tips & Warnings
Place plastic bags over your child's shoes to paint the socks. Leave them on the shoes until the paint is dry.
Sew the cape to the shirt so your child doesn't catch the cape on something or have it grabbed by another child and hurt his neck.
References
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