With these six easy steps of torture, you can have a teletubby costume for your ungrateful baby.
1. Clear Out Your Schedule
You think this will be a quick afternoon project? You thought wrong. Expect several afternoons of carpal tunnel and grabbing needles out of your baby's hands.2. Loosely Cut Out a Pattern
Choose one of your child's frocks and pin it to two layers of fabric. Use it as a pattern to cut out a approximate shape of a child with plenty of wiggle room because let's face it, there will be lots of messing up.
3. Sew Up the Sides
This will loosely represent a sack. Give yourself a pat on the back. Forgot to leave arm holes? No problem! Just cut new holes.
4. Fashion the Belly
Cut open a rectangular belly on your sack, then sew on a patch of foil. By the way, foil rips and is a very bad material to sew with. Too late to change material? Too tired? Just sew buttons on the inside of the foil and it won't tear quite as much.
5. Make the Antenna.
Take a wire coat hanger and bend it to the shape of the teletubby's antenna. Try not to impale self. Realize you have no way to attach it to your child. Throw it away.
6. Put it on Baby
Yah! You are done! Now you can take your baby from door to door and eat all their candy. Isn't that why you made this costume anyway?
If you were expecting real instruction, let me just say I have no patience and little talent with sewing. Let this be encouragement to those that think they could never make a Halloween costume. It's only for one night, and it will be dark, and no one will notice! Have a happy Halloween!
