How to Make a Taco Costume
If you want a memorable Halloween costume, consider dressing up as a taco. It may sound difficult, but you probably have most of the materials around your house. Make your own taco costume and you'll be the talk of the party.
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Things You'll Need
- Foam mattress pad
- Scissors
- Brown pants and shirt
- Green, yellow, red and black construction and crepe paper
- Glue
- Cotton
Instructions
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Buy a cheap foam mattress pad. Cut the corners of the square off so it resembles a rounded taco shell.
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Paint the mattress pad yellow. Draw little dark spots all over it so it looks like a taco shell.
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Wear dark clothes, like a brown leotard or brown pants and a brown shirt. You want it to look like the beef in a taco.
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Glue or tape pieces of green and yellow crepe or construction paper all over your dark colored clothing. This will be the lettuce and cheese.
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Make tomatoes by gluing crumpled balls of red construction paper to your costume.
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Add other ingredients, like olives, onions or jalapeños, by cutting out the shapes in different-colored construction paper. Don't worry if your olives don't look like olives, you're just going for the overall taco appearance.
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Buy some cotton and spread it evenly over the other ingredients of your costume so it looks like sour cream. You could even color some of the cotton green so it looks like guacamole.
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Tips & Warnings
If you want to look extra festive, wear a sombrero.
