“Home Couture” DIY Spiderweb Witch Halloween Costume

18 Oct 2011
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October 18, 2011 Katja Presnal

“Home Couture” DIY Spiderweb Witch Halloween Costume

designer witch costume, DIY witch costume for Halloween, witch costume for tween girl I’m not a big fan of the most Halloween costumes sold at the stores for the tweens and teens. Most of them are inappropriate, and every single dress is too short or suggestive. My daughter is 11 years old, and she has a very classy style, but since everyone else is dressing up in these short skirts (and what I would call more like “sexy witches” style than anything else), she also drew a picture of her own Halloween costume design that included short skirt and even high heels. home made halloween costume for tween girl, diy halloween costume Since we couldn’t find anything in the stores that would be fun, fashionable and appropriate for our tween, I was set to design a “home couture” Halloween costume for my daughter that incorporated the witch and spiderweb designs from her drawings. DIY halloween costume supplies, target, walmart, hanes SUPPLIES: Hanes Youth ComfortBlend EcoSmart® Crewneck Sweatshirt in Black icon ($7.99) Freaky Fabric for decorating Acrylic jewels Elmer’s All Purpose Glue Decorative plastic bat Decorative plastic spiders (100 in a bag) 2 Felt Table Runners from Target Velcro additional items to make the outfit: black leggings icon, witch broom & witch headband/hat (hers are from Target) boots (she is wearing UMI boots in the pictures) I also want to spray paint the broom black before Halloween but we didn’t get to do it yet.. SPIDERWEB SKIRT FROM TABLE RUNNERS 1. Measure your little witches waist to make the skirt in the right size. We made ours for 28″ waist. You will need to make three cuts in each of the two table table runners as pictured below. We made each cut about 4 1/2″ wide on the top and 9″ deep. How to calculate the correct size: (Table runner size – 1/2 waist – 2)/3 if you are using two table runners. Basically you will need to minus how many inches the waist is from the table runner width plus add a few inches for sewing and you will be able to get the correct size for the skirt. Hanes Halloween costume 2. Sew all of the cuts together and the two table runners together from the back side. Leave the other end open. 3. Sew the velcro on the other end of the skirt. Ideally buy black velcro, but I used white one and just sewed a black packing for it from an old black t-shirt. 4. Finish the skirt by gluing plastic spiders and acrylic jewels on it. spiders, spiderweb, spidergirl Halloween costume tutorial SPIDERWEB TOP FROM HANES SWEATSHIRT Buy the Hanes Youth ComfortBlend EcoSmart® Crewneck Sweatshirt icon 1. Wash & dry the freaky spiderweb fabric if you bought it from home decorating section. It will probably rip more and be even more authentic looking after that and it will be safer to wear without all the chemicals in it. 2. Ask your trick-or-treater to “wear” the freaky spiderweb fabric as a “poncho” length wise, in way that her will come through of one of the wholes in it and the long ends of the fabric cover her arms. Cut the hole larger if needed for her head and form sleeves from the ends of the fabric. Attached the “sleeves” with a few pins and remove the “poncho” before sewing the sleeves with a sewing machine. Make sure that the sleeves are wide enough so the sweater will fit under it. It’s OK if they are too wide. 3. Ask your model to wear the Hanes sweatshirt and then the spiderweb poncho (that looks more like a bolero now) on the top of it and start gluing the web into the shirt. Remember to use fabric or all purpose glue that will dry clear. I used a lot of glue because after washing the web it was pretty much falling apart. Let dry at least for two hours before adding additional decorations. 4. After the glue in the web has entirely dried add the plastic bat on the shoulder with by sewing it it (I also used glue to attach it well), and glue spiders and acrylic jewelry on the top as wished. halloween costume tutorial, how to make a witch costume for a tween girl The best about this DIY Halloween witch costume is that it is truly unique, and while I wouldn’t call it haute couture, it truly is home couture and custom made for Isabella. We had a lot of fun creating it together, and the end result combines the trendy look kids like but it still covers up and is appropriate for a child. I think you could create a costume for an adult using the same idea, and next I am trying to find a felt table runner with snowflakes to try to use this idea for a snow princess costume for my other daughter. Subscribe to Skimbaco Lifestyle RSS feed and get our newsletter! Hanes.com , , , ,

Katja Presnal

Katja Presnal shows how to live Nordic inspired life to the fullest and plan your dream life. Katja owns Presnal5 strategic marketing intelligence agency and wants to help marketing professionals to combine a dream career and dream life via freelance work. Katja is an award-winning marketing strategist, and a well-known speaker. Katja has lived in five different countries, and seven states in the USA. Her three children were all born in different countries within three years. When not working or jet-setting the world, Katja is at home cooking big family dinners. She has been featured in NY Times, Glamour, Redbook, Fodor's, Forbes and Woman's Day magazines among many other national and international publications and written for MTV3 and Lifetime TV networks.

Comments (22)

  2. Lori

    Love it! Especially love the skirt! I cannot believe those are table runners and man! I want them!!!

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  7. LF

    This looks awesome. I’m also impressed with her drawing, everything looks great! :) You and Matt are so artsy, I missed out on the creative gene. :)

  14. Shana D

    Oh it came out great! I love all the little details you added on like the sparkles & spiders on the skirt.
    I am not looking forward to finding costumes for my daughter in her tween years. Even now some costumes for her age (she’s 4) are inappropriate.

  15. Gena

    I can’t stand the costumes available even for our little ones. I love the way you did this!! Great job!!

  20. Leigh Powell Hines

    I love this idea!! I am with you – so many of the costumes for that age are way too risque. Thanks for showing us how to make something that our girls will feel fashionable in but is still age appropriate!

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