How To Make Charlie Brown Ghost Costume

When my daughter wanted a ghost Halloween costume, I jumped at the run a risk to DIY a classic homemade white bed canvass ghost costume.

Only, I had to call back virtually how she would see backside bed sheets that are acting like ghost ponchos without the head hole. I didn't want to only make holes in my DIY ghost costume. You'd run across the face inside.

And then, the idea came to me to use screen material. The aforementioned thing that keeps the bugs from flying into your house.

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The costume ended up beingness a great hit. It may be a Halloween costume just it usually makes an advent well before Halloween night. We're talking late September. And it isn't entirely put away until Thanksgiving.

It seems similar at that place are endless costume ideas for kids to cull from. And, if you are planning on going to a Halloween store, y'all can even buy inflatable costumes. But for us DIYers, it's all about scoring supplies at thrift stores and finding creative costume ideas just about anywhere nosotros look.

If you are searching for a spooky costume that doesn't take a lot of time nor lots of materials to brand, this is the perfect DIY Halloween costume.

Forget the mess of white face paint or the challenge of making a ghost tutu clothes combo.

Still, this ghost outfit takes the get-go-place awards for an easy DIY costume. Martha Stewart would be proud.

Here's how I made my traditional ghost costume:

Ghost Costume Materials & Tutorial

You will need:

• • An old white bedsheet or several white sheets in case you make a mistake (mine was a full size fitted sheet. I cut the edges off leaving raw edges)
  • Some screen material (mine came from an old screen just whatever hardware shop volition have it)
  • The ghost eyes and mouth downloadable template at the bottom of this post
  • Black thread
  • Pair of scissors
  • Sewing machine, sewing needle or glue (fabric or hot glue and hot mucilage gun)

The size of the white bed sheet needed will depend on the size of your kids. A queen or king size sheet will work best for taller kids or adults. That means this costume even works in the category of women's costumes.

Make sure you're happy with how far the bed sheet hangs before you kickoff cutting. Of course, you can merely get white fabric from a material store if y'all don't have white sheets you can cut for this scary ghost costume.

Cut the eyes and oral fissure template and pin them onto the screen material. You volition need 4 of the eyes and 2 of the rima oris otherwise people will be able to see the piffling face up behind the mask. I but folded the screen fabric in 4ths so I would merely accept to cut once.

Choose where the face should be. Usually somewhere in the middle of the canvas.

You tin can try placing the sheet over your child's head and noting with a black marking where the eyes and mouth should be to ensure good placement. Position two pieces of screen material on top of each other for each of the optics and the mouth.

Here the eye holes are 1 inch apart, simply you may want to measure your little goblin's face before you get-go sewing.

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You lot might think that the side by side stride would be to cutting out the holes. But if y'all do that the sail will deform equally yous stitch the screen and you'll terminate up with a wrinkly ghost. We tin can't have that now!  So, run up the eyes and the mouth on the sheet Get-go.

A satin stitch works great. I did it with a tight zig-zag stitch on the sewing machine but this step can also be done by paw.

To make this an easy no sew together projection, just use fabric glue or hot mucilage around the edges of the circles.

And so plow the sail around to the back and cutting out the sheet cloth to create an opening for each middle and oral fissure.

Hither you lot have information technology. An ooky, spooky ghost costume that your kids will want to wear to the breakfast table.

Put it on and have a great time with this ghostly look!

If the weather is chillier on Halloween night, but put on a white long-sleeved shirt and other warmer articles of wear nether the white fabric.

Nosotros didn't accept a problem with the sheet shifting on my girl's heads, but if you're afraid the sheet might autumn off when your kids run, just use prophylactic pins (or stitch) to secure a white knit cap to the inside of the sheet at the tiptop.

If you are looking to create complementary costumes for other kids or the whole family, hither are some not bad ideas:

• A pac-human costume
• Pac-homo ghost
• Ghostbuster costumes
• The Ghost of Christmas Past from A Christmas Ballad
• Boy and girl ghosts. For a girl ghost, just add a hair bow to the top.
• A friendly ghost costume. Just cut the mouth into a smiling rather than a circumvolve.
• The Peanuts' ghost costumes from It's the Groovy Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
• A reversed ghost with black material and white holes

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Delight note that this thought is not suitable for a baby costume. If yous liked this Halloween costume, check out my other creations, similar the jellyfish costume, bat costume, and butterfly costume.

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