Superman costume
Difficulty: Hard
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Parental supervision is recommended
Your little hero will look super at Halloween with this Superman costume. This craft makes a fun play outfit for kids even if it isn't Halloween.
What you'll need:
- Royal blue sweatpants and sweatshirt
- Pencil
- Pen or fabric pen or pencil
- Ruler
- Paper
- Scissors
- Safety pins
- Red fabric or felt (by the yard)
- Yellow fabric or felt
- Velcro
- Snow boots
- Sewing machine and matching thread
How to make it:
- Create a Superman emblem (see photo) on paper using the pencil and ruler.
- Cut out the emblem.
- Trace the emblem twice on red fabric or felt. Cut out both emblems. Note: Second emblem is for use on the cape.
- Iron-on Wonder-Under to backside of emblems. Let cool.
- Remove paper backing.
- Iron-on to yellow fabric or felt. Let cool.
- Cut around outside of emblems.
- I appliqued around edges for durability.
- I safety pinned the emblem to his sweatshirt so he could use the shirt after Halloween and I could save the "S" for a future child without putting size limitations on the costume.
Cape: My first thought when doing the cape was to make it long. I did this so that he could continue to use it when he got older. He was three in the photo and now at almost six it still fits well.
Note: There's a tie around the collar of the cape. YES collar. I put a 2 inch collar so that the cape would stay up on his shoulders and not sag and hang from his throat. If I had it to do over I would extend the collar into the ties and use Velcro. That way if someone pulled on the back of the cape and it would come apart easily and not choke anyone. We've had no problems in that area though.
- Cut out a piece of red fabric or felt to use for the cape. Make the fabric to fit from the outside edge of the shoulder to the opposite edge of the shoulder and to the length desired. Be sure to add the 2" collar.
- Sew the second emblem on the cape.
- Sew Velcro on the ties of the cape.
Snow Boots:
- I took his snow boots and laid them on red fabric. I traced about 3/4 of an inch away and about 3 inches taller.
- Cut out 4 of this pattern.
- Match two pieces together and sew the sides only.
- I clipped the curves (very important) and then put them over the boot, folding the extended top down into the inside of the boot once it was on his foot.
