Bring this budget - friendly elephant costume DIY project to life for your footling one this fast one - or - cover season !
Adam Albright
If you ’ve been brainstorming Halloween costume thought that will keep your little one lovesome and look centre - meltingly adorable — without break the bank — this elephant costume DIY project ticks all the boxwood . All you need is a white-haired sweatsuit and some matching felt . Each slice can be hot - paste instead of sewn , making the homemade costume even more approachable . And with temperature often parky by the ending of October , this animal - themed sweatsuit will help keep your kid warm while they collect candy .
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How to Make an Elephant Costume for Halloween
With a few affordable supplies and these well-to-do - to - follow command , completing your own elephant costume DIY project will be a cinch . You should be able to complete the costume in under an hr with no sewing necessary if you pick out to expend hot mucilage alternatively . Freehand the ears and toe or utilise our liberal printable template as a scout .
Opt for a traditional all - gray face , or customise the elephant costume with your preferent colored and patterned palpate — pink for the ears would be an lovely nod to Dumbo !
Make the Ears
The first step of this elephant costume DIY project is to blow up , mark , and decipher the patterns for the ears onto paper . snub them out , then apply the spike patterns as a usher to shorten 2 outer ears from lightsome gray felt and 2 inner ears from white felt . Topstitch or paste an inner ear to each taboo ear with the straight edges aligned and reversing one Seth .
Fold the top of each ear down 2 inches . Align the folded straight edges and pin them in spot . thole each ear 2 in from the edge of the sweatshirt hood with the turn up edge at the top and the white intimate ear facing frontward . Topstitch or glue each ear along the uncoiled sharpness , overhear the fold edge in the line .
Make the Toes
reduce 6 great toes and 6 small toes from the white sense . Hot glue 3 large toe to the bottom front ahem of each sweat pants leg and 3 small toe around the hem of each sweatshirt sleeve .
Make the Trunk
Cut a composition board paper towel tube to 9 column inch long . Pinch together one end and gum it closed .
reduce a 6x13 - inch piece of light gray feel . Lay the tube on the gray felt so the open tube remnant is aligned with the shortsighted end of the felt . Wrap the felt around the tube and red-hot glue it in spot , puzzle out tardily to make furrow as you go .
At the flattened end of the electron tube , glue the felt together to form a flap that will insert inside the sweatshirt neck opening . Apply a line of red-hot glue around the sharpness of the open electron tube end and press it into a spell of dark gray felt . allow the mucilage teetotal , then cut the excess feel around the tube ending .
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Attach the Trunk and Accessorize
run up or glue the flap destruction of the elephant trunk inside the front neckline of the sweatshirt . Hot glue a man of Circus Peanuts confect to the dark grey felt at the end of the trunk for an adorable finish touch modality to this elephant costume DIY undertaking .
Other Easy-to-Make Animal Costumes for Kids
If your kiddo is less than enthuse about being an elephant for Halloween , we have ready to hand footmark - by - step instructions for a few other animal - prompt DIY costume . For small fry who wish the spookiness of the time of year , this homemade wolf costumecould be a large option . Far more creepy - crawly isthis glitch costumecrafted from composition board corner . This bird costumeis a more capricious choice for the little animal fan in your life-time . Each option is easy to make , budget - well-disposed , and a special manner to make decline memories with your kids .
