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  • From "Ask DIY Decorating & Crafts"
    episode DADD-209


    Q: (from Alicia in Greenville, MD): My kids love to play dress up. I’m not a sewer and going out and buying new costumes all the time is getting expensive. Is there an easier way to create fun costumes that will keep them entertained, but not cost me a fortune?

    A: (from DIY crafts expert Debbie Stapley): It’s so important to allow your children to let their imaginations run free. Playing dress up and putting on costumes is a great way for kids to really expand their minds and it helps their creativity. Here is an idea that is a little different. It doesn’t involve sewing or a glue gun. All that is needed can be found in a hardware store. Yes, a hardware store!

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    Steps:

    1. To create a medieval knight costume, all that is needed can be found in a hardware store. Plumbing supplies, flexible dryer ducts, seat covers, are all at your fingertips.

    2. To create a mask, a painters head sock works perfectly if spray-painted silver.

    3. For a cape, take plumbing floaters, spray paint them black and attach them to a dowel. Next, take a heavy-duty plastic drop cloth, fold it over several times and then cut it in to strips. Lay the strips of plastic along the edge of the dowel and attach it with duct tape.

    4. To create shoes, trace the child’s shoe on to paper and then transfer that on to felt. Cut out the felt, attach a no-sew velcro and attach the felt around the shoes to create the medieval boots.

    5. This costume isn’t one that you can really completely assemble and place on a child. It’s something that will really need to be done one piece at a time.

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