8 truly easy D.I.Y. Halloween costumes for lazy people
In the midst of your Halloween merriment, your costume is likely to get either destroyed or abandoned. So why do more than you need to?
These D.I.Y. Halloween costumes require, at most, the skills of a precocious 6-year-old with access to a glue gun.
We've ranked them in difficulty from 1-3: 1 meaning the least smart kid in your kindergarten class, 3 meaning valedictorian of your elementary school. Have at it.
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1. Flower
Difficulty: 2
How-to: Cut stiff felt into petals and attach to a soft headband using a hot glue gun.
2. Avocado
Difficulty: 1
How-to: Trace and cut the shape of an avocado out of soft green felt. Use brown felt for the pit, and attach to a t-shirt with safety pins.
3. Cactus
Difficulty: 1
How-to: Glue small one-inch lengths of silver pipe cleaner to a green sweatshirt.
4. Pencil
Difficulty: 3
How-to: Cut a circle and a rectangle out of pink felt. Working slowly, use a hot glue gun to attach one edge of the rectangular piece to the circular piece until it resembles the shape of a pillbox hat. Attach silver pipe cleaner to the base of the hat and attach string to hold the hat in place on the wearer's head.
Draw lines on a yellow t-shirt.
5. Desk plant
Difficulty: 2
How-to: Wrap a plastic headband in green pipe cleaner until covered entirely. Cut leaves from stiff green felt and decorate with marker. Glue to green pipe cleaner stems. Wrap bases of stems around headband until secure.
6. Pizza
Difficulty: 1
How-to: Cut yellow poster board into the shape of a pizza. Use a glue stick to attach a length of brown paper crust and red paper pepperonis to the top of the slice. Attach length of ribbon to top corners of pizza.
7. Tea
Difficulty: 2
How-to: Dip the bottom half of a white t-shirt in a pot of black tea and hang to dry.
Cut the shape of a tea bag tag from stiff felt. Trace and cut tea leaves and letters from stiff green felt. Attach with craft glue and staple to a length of string. Attach string to plastic headband.
8. Hamster
Difficulty: 3
How-to: Cut the ears from brown and pink felt, leaving extra fabric at the base of each piece. Fold the base of each ear under a thin plastic headband. Secure by gluing the bases to the backs of each ear.
For nose: Cut a square of brown fabric and use hot glue to attach to the edges of a small circular piece of pink felt. Secure a length of elastic string to both sides of the nose.
