Wednesday, October 27, 2010

DIY Super Mario Bros.



My five year old wanted to be Luigi for Halloween this year and my two year old conveniently doesn't know what Halloween even is yet, so I took the opportunity to cast him as Mario to match his brother. Sure, I could have gone the easy route and bought the pre-made costumes from Wal*Mart for $20, but it's been my experience that those costumes fall apart at the seams and get runs and snags all over them within a week, and kids love to dress up in their costumes all the time once Halloween is over. So I decided to do right by my boys and make them Super Mario Bros. costumes that will last until they outgrow them. I found most of the actual clothing on Amazon.com and the rest of the supplies at Michaels, which consisted of some felt, wooden discs (for the buttons, I spraypainted them yellow), a little bit of hot glue, and some industrial strength velcro to attach the buttons. There's no way these costumes are going to fall apart, and I think they look so much better than the store-bought ones anyway!

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  1. Love them! I actually wanted to buy the mario bros costumes (and the princess toadstool!!) they had at the local party store. Needless to say, Collin has become more opinionated than I expected and we still don't have costumes... oops. Your boys are going to totally rock those costumes!

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