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Cheap and Easy DIY Paper Doll Halloween Costume

Total Time1 hour
Keyword: costume, Halloween
Servings: 1 dress
Cost: $10

Ingredients

  • 3 Foam boards I used two colored ones and one white one, but you could always just use white
  • 1 pencil
  • 1 scissors or a knife
  • 1 black paint or a sharpie
  • 1 gold paint
  • 1 medium-point paint brush
  • 1 adhesive of some kind

Instructions

  • First, flip over your colored board and trace out a dress design. You can do anything you like, but I opted to stay close to my inspiration dress.
  • Once you have the basic outline drawn, cut it out.
  • Next, flip over your board and use either black paint or a black sharpie to go around the edges of the board. Make sure you cover the top and the cut side of the board.
  • Next, you'll add the detail lines on the dress. This helps your costume look more realistic.
  • Let's add the tabs! Cut 6 inch long, thick white strips. You only need 6 or 7 of them. Again, outline them in black, but this time it will need to be a dashed line instead of a solid line.
  • Next, attach the tabs to the back of the dress using hot glue, spray adhesive, or whatever you like!
  • If you want an accessory like a belt, purse, or hair bow, make those repeating the same process as above.
  • Add some gold touches with paint.
  • Voila! Your finished product! You'll want to wear a black body suit or black t-shirt and black shorts and attach the costume to the shirt using velcro. Definitely use velcro - because if you need to use the restroom at any point, you'll want to be able to get out of the costume easily.