Turn Ordinary Sweats into Extraordinary Costumes!

Costumes are outright expensive. When you have little ones, you can easily spend $40 a child on their costumes. Why? The costumes at stores are normally cheaply made and are only worn that one night. Even if you are a crafty person, you can easily turn a pair of sweats into a great costume.

Grapes

Buy an all purple sweat suit.  Pin on tons of purple balloons with small safety pins.  Be careful not to puncture the balloons when attaching them.  Finish off the ensemble with a brown cap.  You can also cut leaf patterns out of green felt and attach to the cap for a complete outfit.

Crayon

Choose any color crayon you would like.  Buy sweats in that color.  Attach a wrapper made of paper, craft foam or felt.  To form a hat, find a like-colored plastic planter (or paint one to match).  The face can also be painted to match the crayon color.  Very cute!

Domino

Take all black sweats and place a piece of white duct tape around the waist.  This will be the middle portion of the domino.  Pin white circles made of either thick paper, craft foam or felt to create the amount of dots you would like.  Black shoes and a black painted face finish off the complete outfit.

Care Bear:

Take a pair of sweats, with a hooded sweat shirt to match your favorite Care Bear.  Add ears made of matching felt to the sweatshirt hood.   Using felt or white fabric, create a white circle and decorate with your Care Bear symbol.  To complete the look, add mittens in a matching color.  If you want to be a little more creative, follow this tutorial by Craftster user TravTrav.

Dalmatian

Use a white hooded sweatsuit and pin black felt spots all over.  Add felt ears to the hood, tail on the pants along with a dog collar and your ready to go.

There are lots of ideas for a simple sweatsuit.  Most any animal or round fruits or vegetable can be easily made with just a few alterations.  Buy some sweats, get some felt and you are able to create most anything you can imagine.