Oswald Costume

Your kids will do the "Penguin Polka" over this terrific costume!

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Materials

• 2 plastic grocery bags
• 1 package cotton batting
• Adult-size royal-blue sweatshirt
• 8 royal-blue sport socks
• 2 yd. florist wire
• 8 rubber bands
• 8 large safety pins
• 12-in.-square black felt
• Fabric glue or hot-glue gun
• 4-oz. plastic container bottom, cleaned
• 8-oz. plastic container lid, cleaned
• Black acrylic paint
• Velcro self-adhesive strips

Directions

1. Step 1

   Stuff the grocery bags with the cotton batting until full.

2. Step 2

   Slip your child's arms through the handles of the bags, so they rest over his shoulders; there should be one bag dangling in the front and one in the back.

3. Step 3

   Pull the sweatshirt over the bags.

4. Step 4

   Stuff the socks loosely with the batting.

5. Step 5

   Cut and place a piece of florist wire inside each sock and bend it to shape.

6. Step 6

   Use a rubber band to tie off the top of the sock 1 inch from the top.

7. Step 7

   Pin the socks around the inside bottom of the sweatshirt.

8. Step 8

   Cut Oswald's features from black felt, as in photo. Glue to the sweatshirt.

9. Step 9

   Glue the plastic container bottom to the larger lid to make a hat. Paint it black and let it dry. Attach it to the right shoulder of shirt with Velcro.