How to Make a Police Officer Costume
During Halloween, police officer costumes are rather popular with men, women and children alike. While everyone has a slightly different take on this costume, there are certain elements that are usually the same, so that you can make a cop costume at home with a few articles of secondhand clothes and some basic craft supplies.
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Things You'll Need
- Dark blue T-shirt
- Dark blue pants
- Black shoes
- Black belt
- Black visor
- Gold fabric
- Dark blue fabric
- Fabric scissors
- Thread
- Sewing machine
- Cardboard
- Wooden dowel, 12 inches long
- Gold spray paint
- Black spray paint
- Black permanent marker
- Hot glue
Instructions
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Cut out three arrow-shaped pieces of gold fabric (each about 2 inches wide), and sew them in a row on the left sleeve of a blue T-shirt to indicate "rank."
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Cut out a piece of cardboard into the shape of a police badge or shield (one point at the bottom with three points at the top).
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Spray-paint the badge gold, and use a black permanent marker to write "Police" across the middle of it. Hot-glue this badge to the upper right-hand side of the T-shirt.
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Pair the shirt with a pair of dark blue pants, a black belt, and a pair of black shoes.
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To make the hat, cut out a circle of dark blue fabric 12 inches in diameter. Sew a gathering stitch around the entire circumference of the circle.
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Gather the fabric until the edge of the circle is just small enough to fit inside the visor.
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Glue the gathered edge of the circle to the inside of the black visor, and flatten the fabric down as much as possible.
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Spray-paint a 12-inch wooden dowel black, and carry it around as a nightstick.
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Tips & Warnings
For a woman's costume, you may substitute a short dark blue skirt instead of dark blue pants. You may also replace the T-shirt with a well-fitting button-up shirt.
For a child's costume, you may add some fun accessories such as a whistle or some toy handcuffs.
Dark blue jeans may be used instead of dress pants.
