This chicken costume is sure to bring attention, and a few giggles, when a child dons it at a Halloween party or for trick-or-treating. It can be a bit time consuming to glue on all the feathers, but its look will be far superior to the typical Halloween shop fleece chicken costumes that make a child look like she’s plucked poultry.
Instructions
1. Put the sweat pants on the child. Pull the leg up of the sweat pants and tuck it under so that the elastic bottom is above your knee. This is how the child will wear it for the costume.
2. Cut four circles out of the felt, three to four inches in diameter. Fold them in half and mark the fold line on one side. Lay them on the hood of the sweater, fold lines facing up and lined up. The circles should go down the center seam, right where the top of the head would be. Overlap the circles very slightly.
3. Sew them down the fold lines, attaching them to the hood, with one straight line of stitches down the seam (or center) of the hood. When done sewing, fold each side of the circles upward so that they point straight up off the top of the hood and the two sides of the circle come together. Glue them together with a hot glue gun or fabric glue. This is the chicken’s “crown.”
4. Using your hot glue gun again, glue the feathers on the sweat pants and hooded sweatshirt. Start at the bottom of the sweat pants, around where they turn under when you tuck the elastic up over your knee. Keep gluing feathers around the entire bottom of both legs. Layer the next row an inch or so above the first row. Work up to just under the waistband of the sweat pants. Then glue feathers to the sweat shirt, starting at the cuffs and bottom, working your way up the hood to the crown. Glue the few extra-large feathers to the bottom back of the hooded sweat shirt, right about at the lower back area. These should be pointing straight up and sticking out.
5. Take the tennis shoes. If they are white, use a bright yellow permanent marker to color them yellow. At the front of the tennis shoe, use your black marker to make a narrow “V” shape, going from the middle of the instep with two lines radiating out down over the toes. Fill the inside of the “V” with black coloring. This will vaguely resemble a chicken’s clawed foot. Alternately, you could get more realistic looking chicken’s feet at a costume shop.
6. To assemble your costume, put on the yellow tights first. Carefully put on the feathered sweat pants and hooded sweatshirt on the child. If it is cool out, a jacket or heavy sweater can be worn under the sweatshirt. This will work in your favor by making your little chicken look plump. Before pulling up the hood, place the orange party hat on the child’s head, except instead of it pointing up off the top of the scalp like at a birthday party, the rubber band should go around the back of his head and over the ears, and the cardboard point over the child’s nose, mouth and chin. This is the beak. Using a hole puncher, punch two air holes on the top part that rests near the face. Decorate it if you like using your black marker to outline the nostrils and a line for where it would open if it could. Put on the hood and draw the string so it fits snugly around the child’s face. Put on the gloves and the shoes, and your little chick is ready.
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