Toddler Halloween Costumes Using Sleeper Pajamas

How to Make Infant's Bee, Fairy, Dragon or Mouse Costumes

© Mary Welling-Bonney

Sep 10, 2008

One-piece sleepers are a terrific resource for making costumes. With a little extra touch they can be turned into an array of characters to please any child.

Bee

• Use a yellow sleeper.
• Decorate with black adhesive tape.
• Adhere electrical tape stripes around the legs and body.

1. You can wrap tape into a cone shape to make a stinger.
2. Make two more cone shapes and tape them to a headband for antennae.

• Use a pink sleeper.
• Purchase a yard of netting.
• Get some heavy -weight wire

1. Cut netting in half the long way. Gather it up with needle and thread and stitch it to the waist of the sleeper.
2. Bend wire into the shape of a wing. Make two.
3. Cover the wire with old panty hose. Tie them together with the hose. Cut away excess hosery.
4. Stitch the wings to the sleeper back.

• Use a green sleeper.
• Purchase a half yard of green fleece.
• You will need about 8 felt squares.

1. Cut the fleece into a three-foot long triangle. You will have two long and one short side to your triangle. Stitch up the long sides and stuff. Stitch the whole piece to the seat of the sleeper.
2. Out of the felt, cut four 8", four 7", four 6" and four 5" triangles. Sew or hot glue two sides of two of the 8" triangles together.
3. Repeat for each set of triangles. You will have a total of eight triangles graduated in size.
4. Stuff each triangle with a piece of cardboard. Sew or hot glue onto the back of the sleeper and down the tail going from largest triangle to smallest.

• Use a pink sleeper.
• Purchase a quarter yard of gray felt and a pink felt square.
• You will also need a 16th of a yard of black felt.

1. Fold the gray felt in half and cut an oval. This piece will lie centered on the tummy of the sleeper running up and down.
2. Baste one side onto the sleeper tummy.
3. On the other side add adhesive backed velcro to the sleeper and the felt. This will allow access to the zipper.
4. Cut four ears out of the felt. Use the scraps of gray to make a center for each ear.
5. Attach the ears to a headband.
6. Stitch or glue the black felt into a long pointed tail. You can stitch or safety pin this to the seat of the sleeper.
7. Draw a little mouse nose and whiskers using makeup.

mouse

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