My eldest has a wild imagination. He also has and enormous amount of faith in my abilities to make anything. He really loves snakes. His favorite is the King Cobra. It came as no surprise to me when he asked to be one for Halloween. I got searching on the web for a pre-made costume and came up with nothing. Then I went searching for a pattern or some idea of how to make a snake costume and I came up with nothing still. I headed to JoAnns with a vague idea of what I was going to do and came back with some sparkly, stretchy, scaly, fabric and a pattern for a kangaroo costume. Obviously I had to make many changes to the pattern. The hood was the trickyest part. I made it once and wasn't happy with it. I wanted the cobra flaps to not look like monkey ears. I took it apart and used some plastic and some wadding/batting to line them and give them structure. I used felt for the eyes, teeth and tounge.
Mr M. was plenty happy with it, so I was happy too. I think this might be anouther costume that I will have him wear for years.
Wow Solviej! You are so creative and talented! I could not do that! Amazing! Yes, that boy does have quite the immagination and alot of faith in his mum!
ReplyDeletehey there, I'm wondering if you had a pattern to use for the snake hood? I do costumes for a dance studio and we are doing jungle book in a few weeks and I'm just at a lost for the snake. Could you email me at sapphirestacy77@yahoo.com please?
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