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 We love Halloween around here. Mostly because it allows us to be super creative and silly. Each year we think of a new theme and make our costumes around that theme. This has become one of our favorite family traditions. It allows us to tackle new challenges and make lasting memories together. It's hard to believe we have 10+ years of DIY Halloween costumes under our belt and we're still going strong. 

This year for Halloween we picked a Mythical Chacater theme, which includes a dragon, gnome, and unicorn.

Here is the DIY tutorial on how to make a fairy costume.

Dress

Materials:

• Green tulle/lace fabric
• Green knit stretch fabric
• White organza fabric
• Green satin ribbon
• Flower petals
• Large leaves
• 1-inch Elastic band

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Instructions:

I made this dress with 3 layers, green lace on top, then green knit underneath. The third layer is white organza, only under the skirt portion of the dress.

The dress is a simple tube dress. To make it:

• Measure the circumference of your child's body and add 5 inches extra for seam allowance and gathering
• Measure the length from armpit to the desired bottom of the dress
• This will give you a rectangular measurement
• Use that measurement to cut the green lace/tulle fabric

I wanted the second layer to be longer than the first, so I added 3 inches to the length.

• Cut the rectangular piece from your Green knit stretch fabric

• Using scissors, hand cut a scallop edge on both pieces of fabric. The fabrics I chose do not fray so I did not worry about hemming them.

• The White organza fabric will be the same width as the dress. to measure the length measure distance from the waist to the desired end of the dress. Double this length. It will be folded in half and made into a pocket to hold Flower petals.
• Cut, fold in half and sew sides closed.

• Fill with flower petals. This is a great job for little helpers.

• Once all the flower petals are in, sew the top closed.

• Sew to the waistline of the green knit fabric.

• Pin 2 pieces of green fabric together.

It will look like this.

• Sew around both sides and top seam.
• Once finished, sew the side seams together - creating your tube dress.

• Fold top of the dress down 1.5 inches.
• Pin and sew closed, leaving a 2-inch opening.

• Cut Elastic band to the circumference of your child's body + 1-inch seam allowance.
• Using safety pins, thread elastic band through the opening.
• Sew elastic together.
• Sew opening of dress closed.

• Cut Green satin ribbon for shoulder straps.
• Sew to top of the dress.

Belt

Materials:

• Green satin ribbon
• Flower petals
• Large leaves
• Hot glue gun

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• Cut the desired length of belt out of Green satin ribbon

• Hot glue a series of large leaves and Flower petals to the center of the belt, leaving the sides for tying.

Headband

Materials:

• Green ribbon
• Rafia ribbon
• Artificial flowers
• Hot glue gun

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Instructions:

• Cut 2 Green ribbons and 2 Rafia ribbon to the desired length of your headband. Consider extra length for tying.
• Tie a knot on one end and braid loosely. Tie a knot to finish.
• Hot glue artificial flowers 1-2 inches apart.

Wand

Materials:

• Wooden dowel
• Pink and green thin ribbon
• Gold wide ribbon
• Poly-Fil
• Star confetti
• Pink & White felt

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Instructions:

• Cut two stars out of your Pink & White felt
• Sew or glue together, leaving a 1-inch opening.

• Fill with Poly-Fil. Perfect job for little fingered helpers.

• Hot glue Star confetti to starts. Since these were super tiny, using a toothpicks helps from getting burned from the hot glue gun.

• Wrap your Wooden dowel with Gold wide ribbon, hot gluing as you go.

• Tie 2 long pieces of Pink and green thin ribbon to the top.

• Insert into the opening of the start and hot glue shut.

Add some inexpensive wings from the dollar store and this fairy is officially ready for Halloween. 

This costume was 1 of 4 mythical character themed costumes we made for our family this year. Check out tutorials for the dragon, gnome, and unicorn costumes.

Did you know we make our costumes every year?! See all our past Halloween costumes for more fun ideas.

For extra help making your costumes, see the video tutorials on our YouTube channel.

I hope this inspires you to #CREATEmore and make lasting memories for your family. I would love to hear your thoughts, comments, questions in the comments section below.

If you make your own version we'd love to see! Tag #IZZAROOcostumes for a chance to be featured on our website.

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