This is the most VERSATILE and easiest costume to make. If you can think of anything that’s a triangle: candy corn, pie, ice cream cone, cheese, slice of watermelon, etc., you can use this tutorial and customize it to your heart’s content!
It’s no sew and cost me $7.50 to make!
Materials:
1 yard of tan fabric folded in half {for my 4 1/2 year old of average height-use your 40% off Hobby Lobby coupon to do this costume for the price above}
4 sheets of red felt
5 sheets of cream felt
2 sheets of black felt
2 sheets gray felt
Good fabric scissors
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Bowls in two different sizes
A cup
A shirt from your child’s closet for measuring purposes
Instructions:
1. Fold your yard of tan fabric in half. Hold it up to your child and mark approximately the length you want the end product to be. Mark lightly.
2. Find the center point to be the tip of your pizza slice and cut out a triangle. Make sure to keep the folded part the top of the pizza so a neck hole can be cut out to be worn and draped over your child.
3. Next you need to cut the neck hole. Using a shirt from your child’s closet, place the neck hole of the shirt in the center of the crust to measure the width your cut should be. Mark with a pen. Then measure from the center of your child’s shirt from the back of the neck, to lowest center part of the curve of the neck so you will know how low to go when cutting the neckline. Remove the shirt, mark the center of the neck line based on your measurements and cut out.
4. Get your cream fabric and cut large abstract pieces to look like melted cheese. You can also do strips and make the cheese look shredded. Cover your pizza with the cheese and find the lay out that looks best.
5. Get two different size bowls and trace and cut out pepperonis from your red felt. Lay them over the cheese.
6. Use your gray fabric to create round scallop shapes to be your sausage. Arrange the sausage over the other “ingredients”.
7. Lastly, using a cup from your kitchen, trace and cut out olives from your black felt and arrange them over your pizza.
8. Once you are pleased with your lay out, begin hot gluing the ingredients to the pizza. Once they are all attached, flip your slice over and trim off the overhanging felt.
9. Cut four strips of tan felt of the same length and width to make ties to go under the arms of the costume. Put the costume on your child to see where the strips should be attached. I marked where I should glue my ties with safety pins before taking it off of her. Once you have found the placement you need, attach them to the inside of the crust. You can see the finished ties in the first image of this post.
The pizza was blowing in crazy winds but still looked cute! I’m going to save their costumes for her kids one day. See the Play-Doh tutorial here.
PIN AND ENJOY!
