How To Make A Bluey Costume

Learn how to make a DIY Bingo costume with a sweatshirt and felt. Put it together with some simple accessories for a actually fun Halloween costume.

My kids love the Bluey show, and it's one of the only kid shows I can scout. I actually love watching it with my kids. I dearest the imagination, the music, and the beautiful art.

I have talked to several parents who as well love watching Bluey, and I realized that Bluey and Bingo could be a really popular Halloween costume this twelvemonth. I started planning the DIY Bluey and Bingo costumes, and my kids got and so excited to wear them!

The best part about these costumes is that all the pieces are piece of cake to find separately and sewing is only required for the sweatshirt. All of the pieces are going to be used by my kids this twelvemonth, and the sweatshirt will be played with as a clothes up or really worn as a sweatshirt throughout the wintertime. My girl has refused to take the sweatshirt off always since I finished information technology!

I was not planning on doing the eyebrows, only my husband kept encouraging me to add them. I'm and then glad I did since it'south the perfect, silly bear upon to the costume. I made a complimentary pattern for the pointed, standing ears that you tin can use for whatsoever animal costume, and information technology comes with a large and small size.

What is a PDF sewing pattern?

A PDF pattern is a sewing pattern designed on the computer and organized so that it can be printed on several letter of the alphabet or A4 size pieces of paper.

I love using PDF sewing patterns because if the design gets ruined or if my children or I changed sizes, I can ever print information technology again. It'll never be destroyed since I take a digital version!

How do you use a PDF sewing pattern?

Open the PDF on a estimator and click impress. When printing brand sure that the scaling is set to 100% or no scaling so that the design prints at the correct size.

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What fabric should I employ for the Bingo costume?

I chose a cotton fiber sweatshirt and leggings every bit a base of operations for this costume since we alive in an area that is cold at the finish of Oct. Whenever I plan costumes I have to program for extra warmth. If you alive somewhere warm you could utilise shorts and a t-shirt with a hood.

For the felt that I added to the sweatshirt, I chose a high quality wool felt since information technology's still easy to piece of work with merely can be washed. It is sturdy and holds upwardly well. I don't recommend using acrylic felt or craft felt because it'll await worn out after being washed once.

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DIY Bluey Costume

Supplies

Mustard sweatshirt (from Jiffy or Primary) and leggings (from Primary)
Wool felt in iii colors: off-white, mustard, and dark orangish – if yous use wool felt it can be left on the sweashirt and washed. Acrylic or arts and crafts felt volition be wrecked pretty chop-chop afterwards going through the washing machine
White canvas shoes
Off-white gloves
Free pointed ears sewing blueprint – get it at the end of the post behind the locked content box
Sewing tools
Sewing machine

Cut out two orange oval spots. Cutting out ane oval off-white spot. Cut out ii mustard slightly curved tails. Cutting out two off-white tail tips.

Cut out four orangish ear pieces and two mustard inner ear pieces.

Sew the off-white oval onto the front of the sweatshirt. I sewed right through the pocket, and it's no longer usable.

Sew one orange spot onto the back of the sweatshirt. Sew together one orange spont onto the back of the hood.

Sew the tail tips onto the ends of the ii tails.

Sew the ii tail pieces together into 1.

Pin and sew together the tail onto the back of the sweatshirt.

Place 2 of the ears together and sew the sides and up around the indicate.

Trim the points to reduce the bulk.

Hinge the lesser of the ears so that the seams are on top of each other. Sew beyond the lesser and exit a 1.5 inch hole.

Trim the points to reduce the bulk.

Plough the ears right side out. Poke out the corners.

turn right side out and poke out the corners

Constrict the seam allowance into the pigsty. Edgestitch across the bottom to close the hole.

Place the inner ear pieces on the ear and stitch them in place. Exist careful to not flatten the 3-D shape.

Trim any part of the inner ear that extends beneath the bottom of the ear.

Sew the ears onto the top of the hood.

Cut out two long rectangles from the fair felt. Roll upward the rectangles into two small tubes. Hand sew them then that the tube doesn't unroll anymore.