What age group is this costume for?
Preschool and Younger
Elementary School
Middle School
High School & Beyond

Estimated time required to make this costume:
A few hours

Difficulty level:
Quick and easy - no sewing required

Items you will need: (Hit your return key to start a new line)
White posterboard
Quilt batting
Fiberfil
Brown felt
Tan and purple ribbon (about 1 yard each)
Tan and purple spray paint
Tan and purple fabric dye
Spray adhesive (optional)
Hot glue gun
Sweatsuits

Instructions:
This can be made for one person, but my fiance and I did this together!

-Cut posterboard into bread shape
-Cut sheets of quilt batting to size of bread
-Cut felt into strips about 4 inches wide
-Dye sweat suits (one purple, one tan)
-Spray mount some fiberfil and then cover with enough layers of quilt batting to make the right thickness (can also use only batting)
-Hot glue felt around edge of bread and to batting
-Spray paint some fiberfil
-Hot glue painted fiberfil to inside edges of bread (so you don't have one streak of pb or jelly down the middle!)
-Cut ribbon into two pieces (each color) and glue to inside of bread at less than shoulder width
-Safety pin two straps to sweatshirt
-When you go to the party (or whatever), hug a lot!

Other information to consider:
This costume is a little hard to sit in, but otherwise it's a lot of fun!