How to Make a Simple Hungry Caterpillar Costume

• Green Baby Swaddler: I think the green one in the set is the one I own. I didn’t want to make or buy something
• Red fleece
• Yellow fleece or felt
• Purple fleece or felt
• Green fleece or felt
• Hot glue gun
• Tiny bit of fiberfill (probably optional)

To begin, I decided to use a green baby swaddler for the body of the costume, seeing it was something I already owned. There was no reason to make this project more complicated. You could certainly sew something easily too or just use a green blanket to wrap around baby. It’s October in Maryland so by October 31 the evening might be pretty chilly. I liked the idea of using the swaddler over his clothes to keep him warm. With my luck, it’ll be 80 degrees and he’ll be sweltering though. Maryland is so inconsistent. 

With the body of the costume already “made,” all I needed to do was make a hat. I used a baby hat that we owned to help me create a pattern for this hat, although I enlarged it a bit because my sons have bigger heads. Make sure to trace the hat but also add a seam allowance.

My hat was two pieces so I cut two pieces of red fleece.

I cut out some ovals for the eyes with yellow and green felt and fleece (whatever I had on hand). I did a little piece of scrap green for the nose (which isn’t really clear in the book). I used a hot glue gun to place all of the pieces on one piece of the red hat.

If I did it again, I’d put the eyes closer together.

For the antennas, I used purple felt. Sewed the pieces right sides together, turned right sides out, stuffed with a bit of fiberfil. You could probably skip that if you wanted. The felt by itself was fairly stiff.

Once filled, I put one piece of my hand right sides up, put the antennas on top, then placed the second hat piece right sides down. Pin.

Sew the curve.

Flip it right sides out. I attempted to hem the edges, but I didn’t like the look so I seam ripped then just cut the fabric the right size. It worked well and I like the clean edge to it. 

Make sure to check out the complete mommy and baby costume which will be posted in a few days!

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