Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Halloween: The Mater Project

Okay! I am so excited to post this! I've been working soooo hard on Landen's Halloween costume this year! And I must say, it turned out a lot better than I thought it would considering it's my first homemade costume!
So, Josh and I narrowed down the options to Landen's 3 favorite characters, and one of those would be his costume. The options were Goofy, Mater, or Santa. We decided originally on Goofy, and then realized it would take a lot more to make that costume than we realized. And then we decided that no one makes a Santa costume for a 20 month old (especially for Halloween). So, our last option was Mater.
At first I was very intimidated about this project! But then I found a couple of how-to's online, and decided that it actually might not be that hard to accomplish.
Please enjoy this visual journey through a simple diaper box's transformation into an adorable mater costume for my toddler! :)

I took this ordinary diaper box...
I seperated all the parts that were taped and glued. I turned the box inside-out, so that it still looked like a box, but the brown was on the outside and the Huggies part was on the inside. Next, I used Landen's Mater toy...
And I drew all of Mater's features onto the box as best I could. As soon as I was done drawing, I began to paint!




And last, but certainly not least, we added the "rust"!
We went to Salvation Army and bought a pair of brown suspenders ($1). Josh helped me attach them to the inside of the box, so that Mater fit right at Landen's chest and was supported by his shoulders. And just like that (a week later), Mater was complete! Our first homemade, custom-fit for a little boy Mater costume!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! :)

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