How to Make an Easy Vegetable Costume for Kids
It can be a struggle to get kids to eat their vegetables, but you may be able to inspire them to get in their five a day with the right costume; all you'll need are some simple items to create an easy and inexpensive vegetable costume your kids are sure to eat up. Involve your kids in the planning process by allowing them to help you select a vegetable as inspiration for the costume. As these are no-sew endeavors, your kids can help you with costume construction, too. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Green sweatsuit (sweatshirt portion can be hooded or unhooded)
- Green latex balloons
- Safety pins
- Face paint (optional)
- Oversize orange sweatshirt
- Scissors
- Hot glue
- Permanent marker
- Thin black headband
- Green pipe cleaners
- Orange turtleneck
- Orange leggings or tights
Instructions
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Peapod
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Inflate three green latex balloons manually and tie them off at the ends; these will be your peas. Set the inflated balloons aside.
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Lay a green sweatshirt out on a flat work surface. Pin the balloons in a vertical row down the middle of the shirt with safety pins.
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Put the sweatshirt and a pair of green sweatpants on your child. Paint his face with green face paint if desired.
Carrot
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Cut the sleeves off an oversize orange sweatshirt; the sweatshirt should be long enough on your child to reach his knees. Discard the sleeves.
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Cut the bottom of the sweatshirt so that it resembles a "V". Gather the raw edges and fold them in. Hot glue the edges back together.
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Draw black lines around the entire sweatshirt with a permanent marker to create the ribbed look of a carrot.
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Twist the ends of several green pipe cleaners around a thin black headband to resemble the carrot greens.
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Put an orange turtleneck and leggings or tights on your child and then slip the sweatshirt on over the top. Put on the headband last. Paint your child's face orange with face paint if desired.
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