DIY: Halloween Clown Costume

Sharing you my DIY Halloween Costume that Jashley wore on our company Halloween Party last Month.

Materials:
tulle (I used around 2.5 yards of tulle or 0.5 yard per color)
elastic/garter
ribbons
pompoms/buttons
bow-tie
plain sando/shirt
scissor
glue gun & glue sticks
sewing stuffs
colorful stripped tights

Procedure:
For the tutu skirt.
1. Measure waist. Make your elastic into loop and sew the overlap ends (subtract 2-3 inches smaller as the elastic will stretch)
2. Cut your tulle into strip. The length should be twice of your desired skirt length. The number of pieces of these strips will depend how full you want your skirt.

3. Put the elastic onto something that can hold it nicely for you.

4. Fold the tulle strips in half, put the folded end of the strip under the elastic, open the folded end, then slip up the other end through it to make a slipknot. Repeat the process until the entire elastic band is covered with tulle. Make sure that the knots were tight by pulling them, so it won't look lumpy on waist.

For the top.
1. Get a plain shirt/sando. In my case since I don't want to spend much money on this project, I just used whatever plain top available on my daughter's closet.

2. Sew a row of brightly colored buttons or pompoms. Better if you have large ones but since I only have small pompoms, what I did was make a tulle flower first then used the pompoms as a center ornament for the flower to make it look bigger.
3. Sew a length of ribbon on each front side of the top. These ribbons represents the suspenders of  the clown pants.
4. Sew a bow-tie under the chin area of the top. In my case since I don't have a bow-tie, I made it using the scrap tulle from the tutu skirt, you can use other fabric if you have one.

For the bottom I just bought a colorful stripped tights that she wore under her tutu skirt. For the shoes, clown shoes are usually big and over-sized but since I don't want to spend much for this costume we just settled on whatever shoes she have that will look fine on her outfit.

So there you go that was my DIY clown costume for my little cutie clown here. This is so easy that I managed to make this a night before the event.

By the way I DIY'ed also her colorful hair clips. You just need to cut a few strip of ribbon of the same length, fold them in half and glue their ends, take 1 folded strip of ribbon put a small blob of glue on the ends, layer your next folded strip slightly over the initial strip. Continue the entire way around your flower. For the embelishment I used an old ribbon from one of her broken hair clips and glued it at the center of the flower. Then attached a clip under the flower. Easy peasy.

Till next DIY. =)