Flower Power Halloween Costume
- Paper-cone coffee filters
- Tempera paint
- Paintbrush
- Scissors
- Green paper tablecloths
- Safety pins
- Elastic headband
- Bee pin (optional)
- Slip-on shoes (preferably yellow)
- Black electrical tape
- Googly eyes
- Chenille stems
- Black pom-poms
- Hot-glue gun and glue sticks
- Clear packing tape
- Bubble Wrap
- Paint coffee filters in various colors; let dry.
- Trim filters to 3- to 4-inch circles and layer three together; pinch each set of filters at the center to make a flower.
- Cut leaf shapes from tablecloths using the photo as a guide. Place two leaves (one of each size) underneath a flower. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to make more flowers and leaves.
- Push a safety pin through the flower centers and leaves to secure them and use the pins to attach flowers around the shirt neckline and on the headband.
- Attach a bee pin to one of the flowers on the neckline if desired.
- For each shoe: Make parallel stripes, about 1/2 inch apart, on the sides of a shoe with black tape. Adhere two googly eyes to the toe. Bend a 6-inch piece of chenille stem in half to make antennae and tape about 1/2 inch above the eyes. Hot-glue a pom-pom to each end of the chenille stem.
- Cut two 4-inch-long teardrop shapes from Bubble Wrap; tape them to the inside of the shoe for wings.
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