Can’t Stop This Feeling by Justin Timberlake is a song that’s been on repeat in our home all summer. Now with the anticipation of the movie Trolls {in theaters November 4), the song is being played even louder while simultaneously having a dance party! We’re so excited about the movie. Jessica’s kids wanted to be Poppy and Branch, two characters from the movie Trolls. Today she’s telling us how she made one Poppy costume and two Branch no-sew DIY Halloween costumes. You still have one week to make this costume before Halloween – you can do it!
Materials:
- Felt, 23 green sheets {about .25 cents each), 1 light green sheet, 3 white sheets
- White acrylic paint, Plaid Crafts
- Peel-n-Stick permanent fabric fuse tape {this worked well for me, but Hello Wonderful made amazing felt costumes with a hot glue gun, so that’s an option, too}
- khaki pants, cut like shorts
- Turquoise sweatshirt, Wal-Mart
- Pink pants and long sleeve shirt, Wal-Mart
- Pink glitter boots, The Children’s Place
- Grey long underwear, Costco
- Troll wigs, Wal-Mart or Amazon
- Black spray paint
- Vests, Carters
- Velcro
- Faux flowers
- Scissors {good for fabric}
Directions:
Branch Costume
Cut out felt leaves. I used a leaf cut out as my template, and then I cut, cut and cut some more.
Add Peel-n-Stick to the back of the leaves, and begin to layer the leaves on the vest, from the bottom-up.
Cut the khaki pants to be shorts.
Cut green felt squares and rectangles to place on shorts to look like patches.
For Branch, I needed a black wig, but couldn’t find one, so I spray painted a purple wig black.
The grey clothes underneath not only keep the kids warm, but it’s the color of the Trolls skin. Win-win!
Poppy Costume
Cut the sleeves off a turquoise sweatshirt. I used the Peel-n-Stick tape to ‘hem’ the cut seams.
Cut petals with white felt. I used a cut-out petal, similar to the leaf vest process. Add Peel-n-Stick to the back of the petals and add the petals to the bottom of the dress to match Poppy’s design.
Paint the bottom of Poppy’s dress to look like the real thing. I free-handed the design on the bottom.
Use scraps from the sweatshirt sleeves to make Poppy’s headband. I used the Peel-n-Stick tape to make the headband edges more seamless.
Paint faux flowers turquoise and hot glue them to the headband. Cut small felt petals to glue behind the flowers.
Poppy’s dress has a little wrap around the neck, so I used the hood of the sweatshirt to wrap around the neck. To keep it in place, I added a small strip of velcro to the hood and sweatshirt.
GIMME’ MORE!
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