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Alligator
“My kid is obsessed with alligators. How do I put this costume together?”
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Has instructions
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No-sew
Products you’ll need (2)
Materials
- One green kids outfit
- Green baseball cap
- Styrofoam ball
- Green felt
- Yellow felt
- Black felt
- Lime green felt
- Green cardstock
- White craft foam
- Orange pipe cleaners
Tools
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun
- Xacto knife
Instructions
- Create the headpiece:
- Cut a styrofoam ball in half for the eyes and cover each in yellow felt.
- Glue black eyes and green eyelids to each eye.
- Glue the eyes to the baseball cap.
- Cut a long snout from green cardstock and glue it to the cap bill.
- Cut nostrils from black felt and glue them to the snout.
- Cut and glue white craft foam teeth to the underside of the snout.
- Create the body:
- Cut a poncho from the green felt that is below the belly in the front, and has a long tail in the back.
- Cut a neck opening at the center top with a slit in the back. Use safety pins to secure the back.
- Cut an oval belly from lime green felt and glue it to the front of the poncho.
- Glue orange pipe cleaners across the belly.
- Cut and glue two long lime green felt scales along the back of the poncho.