Help - Making a home made insect/bug outfit. UPDATE. Photo of my 3 year old as spider

This might help.

When I was 5 (1970) I won a school fancy dress competition dressed as a ladybird.My mum used to dress me in a black roll-neck jumper,black tights and a red sleeveless dress.My teacher was always saying that if I had black spots on the back of my dress I'd look just like a ladybird.

So,my mum made some spots out of black fabric,sewed them on and embroidered a black line down the back of the red dress.She then made a helmet shaped cap out of black fabric that did up under my chin if I remember rightly.She finished it off with a pair of black pipecleaner feelers and I won a bar of chocolate!

The following year,inspired by the ladybird's success I became a moth.Similar hat but this time in a grey fabric,some kind of grey top and tights and lovely gauzy grey-purple wings.The wings were just attached at the back of my jumper and tied to my wrists,so they floated rather than stuck out.I won second prize with that one:)

This is probably only helpful if you've got a red dress and black tights and your son is willing to wear a dress:rotfl: However it does show how you can adapt existing clothes to make quite wonderful costumes.

It also helps if you've got my mum to help:D
Anyway,I hope that's been of some use - my school is always giving very short notice for this sort of thing and my kids always want to be Aragorn or worse Sauron:rolleyes:

Hello,I signed up specifically to answer this!When I was younger my mum often made fancy dress outfits from old clothes and bits and bobs.Everything went into a dressing up bag.A spider outfit that my sister once wore was black tights,black top,4 pairs of tights stuffed with newspaper,black headband with black pipecleaners attached to the top of it and black gloves.Hope this helps.

:T:T:T:T:T:T He looks really cute. Well done! :T:T:T:T:T