During this year's Spirit Week at Jenna's school they did a superhero day. Of course we don't just have superhero costumes laying around (at least not in her size) so this left me with the task of finding something for her to rock. This is what I came up with. You Will Need:
We went to Pat Catans (about to kiss those goodbye) but you can stop at any craft store and they'll have a cheap t-shirt section for crafts. We got a youth sized t-shirt there. Taking a sheet of felt I sketched out a Wonder Woman-ish W to place on the shirt. And when I was satisfied I cut it out and hot glued it to the front of the shirt. I measured Jenna's arms to get the cuff length figured out. Cutting about 1/4 of the felt sheet off I had the proper length needed. The tricky part about the arm cuffs is that you have to conform it to your child's arm. Our arms are not perfect cylinders so you can't just make a round band and expect it to fit around the wrist. I had Jenna stand by me and pulled the felt as tight as she wanted her cuffs to be. Then using a pen I marked where the pieces of velcro needed to be for it to properly fit. In the first photo you can see a dark line under the yellow felt at the very bottom. That's the other piece of velcro, her arms are so small that these bands seriously overlap fabric. In the second photo I folded it over so you can see the velcro clearly. I then cut out little red stars and hot glued those to the cuffs as well. I didn't get photos of the process but I also made her a headband/tiara type thing. Measuring her head I made the band and used velcro to attach it. Then using the rest of my yellow felt I created the plate on her headband and of course added a red star. We also picked up a $1 superhero cape in case I failed at making this costume. So even though Wonder Woman is rarely depicted as having a cape, Jenna wanted that added to her costume as well. (Psst, I also went in and filled in the lines of the W with a red marker.) There you go a 20 minute superhero costume that cost me less than $10. But it was priceless to see her face light up and how proud she was coming home from school that day.
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