Tate’s flower pot costume, this year’s homemade Halloween costume, was a showstopper at our neighborhood event and won her first prize in the costume contest! It didn’t hurt that she hammed it up!
I love this idea because it’s so simple. It took less than an hour to put it together and it cost less than ten dollars. Simple, cheap, and seriously cute!
How to Make a Flower Pot Costume
To make it, I bought a large thin plastic tub at Walmart. I wanted something that would be really easy to cut through with regular scissors. I trimmed the bottom out of the tub so Tate’s legs would easily fit through and she would still be able to walk.
I cut four long strips of pink duct tape, attached the sticky sides together then attached the ends {with more duct tape} to the inside of the bucket. Those duct tape strips held the tub onto Tate like suspenders. A little hot glue will ensure that the handles don’t pull off.
The only step left is to grab piles of flowers from the dollar store and hot glue them to the inside of the tub, filling in all the spaces {leave a small space for the arms}, and glue one on to a headband. While you could use any color or a lot of different colors, a monochromatic tone is really cute. Super simple but so adorable!
Tate loved her flower pot costume! I can’t wait to dress her up again on Halloween.
For more fun and easy homemade Halloween costumes, be sure to check out this skein of yarn costume {that appeared on FabLife} …
… a last minute quick and easy Jessie costume for little Toy Story fans …
… and a super fun paint brush costume!
oh my cuteness!!!!
Ok, that is the best costume I have seen…maybe ever!!! I love it and look at her smile.
Cuteness Alert!
It won’t do to use this for Halloween… she’d never scare anyone with those sweet eyes and friendly smile.
Blessings.
Oh Tate, so cute!!
That is adorable!
Does everyone in your neighborhood hate you because your kiddos always win? 😉
great idea! I like homemade costumes, fresh and original, just like this one!
Thanks for sharing this! I just found it on Pinterest and I think your daughter was just a precious and adorable as mine was. So glad it was such a hit!
That flower pot costume is just too adorable!
My brother is hosting a costume contest on his halloween website. The grand prize is $250! You can enter as many unique costumes as you want. I think you should definitely check it out and enter this great costume!
http://www.halloweenhero.com/costume-contest-2013.html
This is adorable!!!
Found this on Pinterest! It’s absolutely adorable! Where did you get the plastic bucket?
It’s just from Walmart, if I remember right. It’s a huge plastic bucket, found in with the storage supplies or laundry items.
Thank you so much!! I’m going to attempt this for my daughter’s Halloween costume. Your little girl is precious!
Love the costume! How did you attach the straps to the plastic bucket?
The straps are made of duct tape placed sticky side to sticky side and then I duct taped the ends to the inside of the plastic tub. Hope that makes sense!
love this costume. your daughter is too adorable. If thats possible. lol! I work at an elementary school and we all always dress up every year along with the students. As an adult its getting hard to find a costume thats appropriate to wear. So I have started doing mine myself and I just love this flower pot you have made. And I do believe the children will too. Thanks for sharing
How did you get the flowers to stay in the pot?
I hot glued them to the inner edge of the tub.