How to Make Cat Halloween Costumes

An easy to make cat costume for kids and to make with your kids.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Cardboard
• Construction paper (to match color of turtleneck, leggings or leotard)
• Plastic headband
• Pencil (to draw cat ear patterns with)
• Scissors
• Tacky glue
• Socks
• Large safety pins
• Craft paint or markers, optional
• Face paints
• turtleneck
• leggings

1. Start with the ears by drawing triangle shapes about 3 inches tall and 2 inches wide on the cardboard. Cut out the ears. Cover with felt using hot glue. If you use dark brown or black as your turtleneck and legging color then you can use a basic tortoiseshell or black headband. If not, then cover the headband with the same color felt as your cat ears. Glue the ears to the headband.

2. The cat tail can be made by using a long piece of fabric rolled into a long tube and filled with stuffing and the hot glued at the seam and one end then attaching the tail with Velcro. You can use a safety pin but you may find that Velocro is safer and you can find some that is non sewing. If you don't have any material then take a knee sock or a man's thigh sock and fill that with stuffing.

3. For the body, use a leotard with leggings or a turtleneck with matching sweat pants or skinny pants. You can also use sweat pants and matching sweat shirts and using fabric paints described in the tips below have a unique, cute costume. Add socks with little black cats and/or cute sneakers.

Tips & Warnings

• You can make the cat even more fun by using a bright colored leotard and then painting your child's face with matching colors, like in the picture. Check out my other ehow article to get the recipe for making the face paint.
• You can even add a fun tutu for a dancing cat. For older kids, add glitter to the cats ears and turtleneck by spraying crafter's glue on to the cardboard ears and/or turtleneck or leotard and sprinkling with glitter.
• Another idea is if you child is wearing a sweatshirt for the cat costume is to take some fabric paints or paint pens and draw a picture of a fish or mouse or write on the shirt sayings like meow.

[gardenwife]

on 10/27/2009 I love the idea of using bright colors instead of natural cat fur colors.

[pianistic]

on 9/26/2007 Thanks for the feedback.

[WeeSandy]

on 9/24/2007 Nice article!