The Cheshire cat is a character created by author Lewis Carroll and popularized by Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" film. While average cat costumes are easy to find in stores around Halloween, it can be difficult to find a Cheshire cat costume to purchase. Fortunately, it is easy to create a homemade Cheshire cat costume. With common crafting supplies and a lot of purple material, anybody can make a Cheshire cat costume in no time at all.
Cut out two triangles of dark purple felt that are each 3 inches tall in the middle and 2 inches wide at the base with scissors.
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Cut out two triangles of light purple felt that are each 2 inches tall in the middle and 1 inch wide at the base.
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Hot glue the light purple triangles to the middle of the dark purple triangles. Hot glue the dark purple triangles to the headband to form cat ears.
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Stuff a light purple sock with quilt batting and safety pin it closed. Cut out five strips of dark purple felt that are each 3 inches wide and 12 inches long.
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Hot glue the strips of dark purple felt around the stuffed sock, allowing 2 inches in between each of the felt pieces to create a striped pattern.
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Safety pin the sock to the seat of a light purple pair of pants to form a tail. Pair the pants with a light purple shirt.
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Cut strips out of the dark purple felt and hot glue them onto the shirt and pants to create horizontal stripes.
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Draw a small circle on the tip of the nose with dark purple eyeliner. Use the same eyeliner to draw three whiskers on each cheek. Widen the smile by drawing a curved line coming out from each corner of the mouth.
