Crafty Critterz: Wizard Halloween Costume

Submitted by: gil with Carl

What you need:

• Black, brown and red pipe cleaners
• White fabric
• Markers
• Scissors
• Tape or glue
• String

What you do:

Cape:

1.     Use scissors to cut a square of white fabric about the size of your Webkinz back and shoulders.

2.     Color a letter of your choice in a bright color, and color the rest of the cape black.

3.     Cut a piece of string two times the length of your Webkinz neck.

4.     Fold the very top of the cape over the middle of the string and back to the cape so that there is about one centimeter of fabric folded over the string.  Use glue or tape to make it stay.

5.     Wrap the cape around your Webkinz neck and tie the string in a bow.

Glasses:

6.     Cut a black pipe cleaner in thirds.

7.     Carefully bend one third into an “O” shape.  Do the same with another third.

8.     Take the last third of pipe cleaner, loop it through one of the “O”s and twist it around the “O”.

9.     Using the other end of the pipe cleaner that you just put through the “O,” loop it through the other one and twist it around that “O.”

10.  Once the two “O”s are connected, cut a separate pipe cleaner into thirds, as in step 6.

11.  Take a third and loop the end through one “O” and twist, as you did in step 8.

12.  Do the same with another third for the other “O”.

13.  Carefully bend the two side pipe cleaners back to look like a pair of glasses.

14.  Cut another third of pipe cleaner, this time in red, and bend it to look like a scar or lightning bolt.

15.  Twist the bottom end of the scar around the middle of the glasses.

16.  To make the glasses stay on your pet, cut a piece of string.  Tie each end to a different end of the glasses, and then wrap the glasses around your Webkinz head.

Wand:

17.  Cut a black pipe cleaner in half, and do the same with a brown pipe cleaner.

18.  Twist one half of the brown and one half of the black pipe cleaners around each other.

19.  Cut a long strip of fabric about 1.5 cm wide, and wrap it around just the bottom of the wand as the handle.

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