Tutorial: Tickle Monster Halloween costume

October 28, 2014 by Anne Weaver 1 Comment

Joy from XOXO Grandma shows how you can make a Tickle Monster costume for a small child. The Tickle Monster is a character in a child’s book. She brings it to life in this adorable Halloween costume. She adapted a hood pattern to give it the Tickle Monster’s crazy features. The jacket is just a basic jacket pattern made up in the same fabric as the hood. For the pants, she used a basic shorts pattern and added a Tickle Monster tail. She includes a free pattern for all the Tickle Monster hood additions and tail pieces. She’s also got a giveaway for a Tickle Monster book gift set, so be sure to enter that while you’re there

Click below to go to her tutorial:

Tickle Monster – A Giveaway, Costume Tutorial, and Free Pattern, by XOXO Grandma

[photo from XOXO Grandma]

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Looking for more DIY sewing patterns to make your own trick or treat bags for Halloween? Check these Sewing patterns out on Etsy. for other styles of Cany trick-or-treat bags, and these other articles we wrote featuring more ideas and free patterns trick-or-treat bags.

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joycandrian says
October 31, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Thank you for the link. Where this boy lives, Halloween was last night so excited to hear how he did.
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