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S'mores Couples Costume

by Aleene's |

Item # 352041920P31
Beginner Varies

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:

  • Aleene's Quick Dry Fabric Fusion
  • Aleene's Tacky Glue
  • Poster board or light weight cardstock for campfire
  • Assorted brown patterned fabrics
  • Brown paper
  • Stiff felt in campfire colors
  • Tulle in fire colors
  • White & gray acrylic paint
  • Paintbrush
  • Orange ribbon to go around waist
  • Orange T-shirt & shorts
  • Scissors
  • For S'mores: two squares of cardboard cut to desired size for costume & two cut for s'mores headband
  • Foam squares
  • Brown fabric for chocolate
  • Black or brown marker
  • Large white pom pom for headband
  • Headband
  • Craft knife
  • White T-shirt & shorts

DIRECTIONS:

    For best results, please read all instructions before beginning project. Refer to photo for color and design placement.
    For Campfire:
  1. Cut cardstock into strips and roll into tubes for logs. Secure edges with Aleene's Tacky Glue. Allow to dry.
  2. Tear brown fabrics into strips to wrap around tubes and use Aleene's Quick Dry Fabric Fusion to adhere strips to tubes. Allow to dry.
  3. Use Aleene's Quick Dry Fabric Fusion to adhere logs to each other to create a "wood pile".
  4. Cut flame shapes from stiff felt and adhere to logs with Aleene's Quick Dry Fabric Fusion.
  5. Cut tufts of tulle and adhere to logs.
  6. Crumple balls of brown paper and paint with white and gray paint to create "rocks". Adhere to logs.
  7. Adhere a strip of ribbon to the back of campfire long enough to go around waist and tie.

    8. For S'more:
  8. Use craft knife to cut out waist opening of first large square of cardboard, adding a perpendicular cut from edge of opening to edge of board so that board can be slipped around waist. Use Aleene's Tacky Glue to attach foam squares to board, trimming excess from waist opening.
  9. Drape brown fabric over foam squares and secure with Aleene's Tacky Glue to create "chocolate".
  10. Use marker to create graham cracker texture on second large board.
  11. Cut out neck opening, adding a perpendicular cut from edge of neck opening to edge of board so board can be slipped over the head.
  12. Use marker to create graham cracker texture on small cardboard squares.
  13. Use Aleene's Tacky Glue to glue large white pompom between the two small squares to create a "s'more".
  14. Attach s'more to headband.

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