craftgrrl | More Halloween costume fun (Reply)

My youngest went as superman, my oldest wanted to go as a pirate. He even made me a picture diagram of what he wanted:

six year old rendition of "piyirit"

The shirt and pants were his that he was outgrowing, so he said it was ok to cut them. The vest is an old black fleece vest of mine. The ring pom fringe I had on hang to sew on the bottom, and I made the eyepatch and the crossbones from fleece and stitched them on. The hook is actually a plastic hanger poked through a plastic red cup. I just covered it all in duct tape, then tin foil for the hook and painted the duct tape black for the rest of it. Same with the sword - it's two pieces of cardboard duct taped together, tin foil for the blade and painted black for the handle. The only things we bought were the bandanas. He loved it!

I was quite pleased that it came out to his specifications