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| Kids Yoda Costume Kids Yoda CostumeBy Susan BealMaking a fun Star Wars-inspired costume for your baby or toddler can be an easy October craft project leading up to Halloween. I made this Yoda costume in less than a week of naptimes (with a few weekend hours for fittings here and there) for my 18-month-old daughter Pearl. The hardest part by far was getting good pictures of her in the full head-to-toe ensemble during its trial run — she's speedy these days!I used an Empire Strikes Back Yoda action figure for inspiration, and carried him around the fabric store to loosely match fabric colors to him and his outfit. The central piece, a simple brown robe, is altered from an adult T-shirt, and the other elements (a hat, snake, belt, and walking stick) are all quick sewing projects using basic templates. You can adapt this costume to fit a baby, toddler, or preschooler by changing the size and scale of the robe and accessories.Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
Flashback: Gory Ghoul Makeup Zombies and ghouls are all the rage this Halloween, and adding some macabre makeup to just about any getup will immediately zombie-fy it. I have a friend who is a forest ranger, and he's going as the zombie ranger, by just donning his work uniform and adding some gory makeup and some dismembered limbs coming out of his backpack. Maybe I'll just have to be the zombie backcountry snowboarder. This week's flashback is another excerpt from Make: Halloween Special Edition, a 2006 collaboration between the editors of CRAFT and MAKE, our sister publication. Courtney Mault and Max Sparber, experts in horror makeup, wrote an entire Macabre Makeup DIY section for the issue, incorporating simple, kitchen-inspired techniques from master makeup pioneer Dick Smith. I say kitchen-inspired because Smith used Karo corn syrup, unflavored gelatin, and bread crumbs to create many a gruesome look. For this DIY, get out the bread crumbs and get gory!Macabre Makeup: The GhoulBy Courtney Mault and Max Sparber The corpse-eating ghoul is where your kitchen supplies come in handy, because this is a piece of makeup that requires bread crumbs. And if you do a full-face coat of liquid latex, when you're done, you'll have a particularly weird-looking mask that you can reuse.Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
Tips For Holiday Baking I always head in to the holiday season with grand ideas of baking cookies for decorating with the kids and giving to friends and neighbors. And, yet, I always seem to get slammed by the craze as we get close to Christmas and never make it happen. That's why I'm so glad to see these brilliant tips for holiday baking from Pam of Gingerbread Snowflakes. She give great tips on preparing cookies early and freezing and shows how to make the freezing a success. I'm already feeling more prepared for this holiday season! Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
Winners of One Yard Wonders The winners for One Yard Wonders from our recent CRAFT book giveaway are Jessica from Fayetteville, AR, Kristin from Seattle, WA, and Jen from San Diego, CA. Congratulations!Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
How-To: Paper Cutting Art Meg Allan Cole shows us some paper cutting art in this Decor it Yourself video from ThreadBanger.Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |