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Tag Archives: Halloween costumes

Easy DIY No-Sew Parrot Costume

10 / 2 / 18

Easy DIY No Sew Parrot Costume | Mama Papa Bubba

You know what I’m really good at?  I’m really good at doing different kinds of creative projects and activities with the kids, photographing them, and then never ever getting around to sharing them here.  Like REALLY good.  I’ve got hundreds of projects photographed and waiting to be written up from years previous… There just aren’t enough hours in the day.  {Sidenote: Can you believe that for the first 5 years of Miss G’s life, I published a blog post every nearly every single day?!  SOOO crazy.  Though most of those years were during a time when blogging meant sharing photos and words…  There was no need to worry about SEO, pinnable images, amazon links, or getting people to your site via social media, so I guess it makes sense that I’m lucky to get a couple of post up a week nowadays.}  Anyways, my goal is to make time to share some of those projects from years past and the first is this easy DIY no-sew parrot costume.  

Easy No-Sew Parrot Costume{this post contains affiliate links}

I mean, how cute is this little parrot of mine??  This was actually Sam’s very first Halloween costume and because it’s actually a parrot cape, he was able to wear it while being worn in the Ergo, which I absolutely loved.  I just popped him in the carrier and then put the hood on his head, flattened the cape out over the Ergo like you would a blanket, and loosely tied the ribbon around his little neck.  It was perfect.

Easy No-Sew Parrot Costume

How did our littlest bubba become a parrot for Halloween?  Well, it all started with this pirate princess costume for Miss G…  Her first ever purchased costume.  She fell in love with it while shopping at Costco and I’ve always said that I’ll make her costumes for as long as she’s happy to have me make them, so…  As much as it sort of killed me to buy one after years of getting to make something from scratch, a store-bought costume it was.

Easy No-Sew Parrot Costume

And of course every little pirate princess needs a parrot, right? {One that was happy to let his mama make his costume, thankfully.}

Easy No-Sew Parrot Costume

Everything required for this little getup?  An old red cape we had in our dress up station {though you can find these inexpensively on Amazon and even dollar stores sometimes}, cheap craft store felt, and a glue gun.  Seriously, that’s it.

Easy No-Sew Parrot Costume

Don’t they make the sweetest little pair?

 

For a detailed parrot costume tutorial, pop over to CBC Parents and check out our Easy No-Sew DIY Parrot Costume post.

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5 Years, 6 Halloweens…

11 / 1 / 1511 / 1 / 15

Halloween Through the Years  2015

How this is even possible is beyond me, but here we are, 5 years and 6 Halloweens later…

 

2010 – Baby G the jack-o-lantern

2011 – Gracen the little blue owl

2012 – Miss G the brown fox

2013 – Super Girl Gracen

2014 – Gracen the mermaid

2015 – Wonder Woman Grae

 

 

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Paper Bag Princess Costume

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While Halloween may be over for most, today Miss G and I celebrated once again with the wonderful mamas and munchkins of our play school co-op.  Now, while she very easily could have worn the mermaid costume I made just a couple of days back, I couldn’t help but make Grae another one…  A paper bag princess costume based on one of my favourite Robert Munsch books, The Paper Bag Princess!

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Halloween Through the Years…

11 / 1 / 1311 / 3 / 13

Halloween Through the Years | Mama Papa Bubba

Ummm…  How on Earth did this happen??

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Dress-Up Centre

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Dress Up CentreA long while ago, while we were home in the Okanagan for Thanksgiving, I mentioned a wooden dress-up station I’d seen on Pinterest.  Grandma Charlotte asked for me to send her the link, and before we knew it, a surprise wooden dress-up station was brought down to the coast for Grae (spoiled little lady!)

IMG 5791Gracen’s Poppop built it for her (adding a very useful top shelf), and though it still needs a little sanding and a few coats of paint, we put it to use as soon as it arrived and it’s been in Gracen’s room ever since (we’ll get to the painting…eventually…)  

IMG 5792To add to the few Halloween things we had and the hats we’d bought from IKEA, Grandma Charlotte collected all kinds of dress up goodies and put them together in a huge costume collection as one of Grae’s Christmas presents. 

IMG 5794She now has everything from one piece numbers, to tutus, boas, wings, hats, glasses, bandanas, and crowns.

IMG 5781Needless to say, dressing up has been a popular activity in our house for a long while now…  Not to mention that I love all of the pretend play and role play it encourages.  

IMG 5802Although it’s not currently the right time of year, if you’re planning on starting a tickle trunk for your little one, I’d highly recommend shopping in the few days just after Halloween.  I got this cute little fleece robot costume at the beginning of Novemeber for $1.82 when costumes were 90% off (seriously, in the words of Brad, it was costing me more NOT to buy it ☺).

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