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Banana

A DIY costume with lots of a-peel.

DIY time is about 20 minutes

  • Has instructions

  • No-sew

Materials

  • One yellow kids outfit
  • Yellow felt
  • Ivory felt
  • Brown felt
  • Cobalt blue felt
  • Yellow fabric paint
  • Fabric tape
  • Tools
  • Hot glue gun
  • Scissors

Instructions

Don’t let this Halloween slip through your fingers! Peel back your sleeves and get ready for some easy DIY costuming! Our Primary essentials are so soft and comfortable, your little one can go bananas trick or treating!

Create the banana hat

  • Measure the child’s head circumference and divide that number by four. Add a half an inch to this number to give a little room for gluing the pieces together, and this measurement will be the width of the bottom edge of each panel. Cut five matching elongated trapezoids from yellow felt and one from ivory felt.

  • Hot glue three yellow pieces and one ivory piece together along the long edges. 

  • Glue the fourth yellow piece over the bottom section of the ivory piece and let it flop down at an angle for the banana peel. Cut the top edge of the yellow piece to a rounded point. 

  • Glue a strip of brown felt around the top of the hat. 

    • Tip: You can also use a giant party hat like in our DIY Pencil costume, but cover it with white paper for a base.

Make the sticker

  • Cut an oval from blue felt. 

  • Use yellow fabric paint to paint a bunch of bananas, and write the word “Banana”, and then “#4011” underneath the bananas. (#4011 is the standard PLU number of bananas in grocery stores)

  • Attach this sticker to the front of the shirt with fabric tape.



Pro-Tips

  1. Have a baby that wants to be a banana? Create your own with a yellow baby outfit!
  2. Make a whole fruit salad this Halloween with our DIY Clementine Costume, DIY Fruit Salad Costume, DIY Grape Costume, DIY baby Pumpkin Halloween Costume, DIY baby Strawberry Costume, and DIY kid Strawberry costumes! Check out all our food DIY costumes for kids and baby.
  3. Get two costumes for the price of one (plus three reusable sunshine yellow Primary basics)! Our DIY kid Baby Shark costume is made with the same exact Primary clothing as our DIY Banana, and both costumes are created so that the clothes are fully re-wearable for Halloween and beyond!

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