Awhile back, I saw an idea online for making a homemade chicken costume and thought it was totally adorable. At first, I just dismissed it as way too much work and kept browsing for other Halloween costume ideas for Miles. Nothing else really caught my eye and I kept thinking about how cute that little chicken costume was, so I went back and looked at it again and discovered it wasn't nearly as hard to make as I had thought it would be and decided that Miles would indeed be a little chicken for Halloween!
I went out and bought some white 24 month onesies (2 sizes bigger than he's in now), 3 white feather boas (4 would've been ideal, but those things are expensive!!), a child's swim cap, some red soft foam board, a bag of stuffing, and some red flannel scraps. First, I safety-pinned 2 1/2 boas to one of the onesies and tried my best to evenly distribute the feathers. After I was happy with how it looked, I turned the onesie inside out and hot glued all the safety pins shut so they couldn't pop open and stab Miles. Then, I turned it back right-side out and put a second onesie inside and safety-pinned and hot glued the bottoms together, so that when I put some stuffing in between them it would stay put. That's it for the body! For the cap, I started by drawing a freehand chicken comb on the red flannel, cutting it out, and hand-stitching around 3 edges. I turned it inside out so the stitches were hidden, put a little stuffing inside, pinned it to the top of the swim cap, and then sewed it in place. After that was done, I took the 1/2 boa that was left and hand-stitched that in a few places to the cap so that the feathers were evenly distributed there also. Cap - done! We had some red leggings already and I cut out some chicken feet from the red foam board to use as shoe covers. The feet looked cute, but weren't very practical for a newly walking baby, so those got ditched pretty early on!
Miles' Halloween costume was the source of much (mostly good-natured) mocking from Bill, as he didn't really see the point of the spending the time or money on it. I heard "Is this costume for Miles or for Mommy?" many times while I was working! I figure this'll be the only Halloween I get to dress Miles however I want without input from him, so I'm going to take advantage!!
So, here's some pictures of the final product from Annette's Boo Party:
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| Happy little chicken! |
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He left a trail of feathers everywhere he went, so we
didn't have to worry about losing him! |
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| Enjoying his prize from the Pick a Pumpkin game. |
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| Splashing in the water was fun! |
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| Momma and the chicken boy |
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| Daddy and the chicken boy |
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