How to Make a CatDog Costume
Adam and Eve. Beauty and the Beast. Bonnie and Clyde. Boring. If you're in search of an interesting and unusual couples' (or siblings') tandem costume for Halloween or a costume party, consider dressing up as the classic Nickelodeon cartoon character CatDog. Aired on Nickelodeon from 1998 to 2004, CatDog was sort of a Laurel and Hardy routine in the body of a cultured and cunning cat and a happy-go-lucky dog, joined together at the torso. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Two yellow hooded sweatshirts
- Two pairs of yellow leggings or sweatpants
- Yellow blanket
- Needle and thread or sewing machine
- Orange paint
- Two ping-pong balls
- Elastic string
- Scissors
- Blue paint
- Brown paint
- Yellow felt
- Glue
- Cardboard
- Two pairs of white sneakers
- Yellow paint
- Eyeliner
Instructions
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Paint large orange spots onto the blanket, the sweatshirts and the leggings. Allow to dry.
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Sew the blanket into a tube, with the spots facing out and the tube's openings approximately the size of the sweatshirts' backs.
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Sew each end of the fabric tube to the back of one of the sweatshirts.
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Cut a nose-sized hole out of each ping pong ball, and poke two additional smaller holes on either side of each one. Cut two lengths of elastic string large enough to secure these to a person's head, thread each one through the two small holes in one of the balls and paint one of the balls blue and the other brown. Allow to dry.
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Cut two long pear shapes -- floppy dog ears -- out of the yellow felt, and paint a few orange spots onto them.
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Cut four triangles out of the yellow felt and two triangles the same size and shape out of the cardboard. Glue a felt triangle to each side of each of the cardboard triangles. Allow to dry.
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Sew the cat ears from Step 6 onto one sweatshirt's hood, and the dog ears from Step 5 onto the other.
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Paint the sneakers yellow.
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Have each person put on the sweatshirts, leggings and sneakers. Put the blue nose on Dog and the brown nose on Cat. Draw whiskers on Cat's face with eyeliner.
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Tips & Warnings
If the leggings are elastic, wear them while painting the spots on.
For maximum accuracy and minimum practicality, cut off the arms of the sweatshirts and sew the holes closed. CatDog does, after all, only have four limbs.
