![]() Flip the pupil over so its backside is up and trace twice on black felt. Cut out the felt pieces.Ĭut out the pupil of the eye from the pattern. Flip it over so backside is up and trace it twice on white felt paper. Here are the patterns for the face detail. Only sew the front half of the neck hole. Now put the one piece into the costume and line up the neck, arm, and leg holes. It doesn't have to be perfect, just connect the two into a one piece. Its a little tricky to get going and avoid sewing it shut. Make sure you dont sew through both sides of the shorts. Carefully sew the shirt to the shorts waist. Position the shorts waist inside the shirt and pin. the shorts we used are a little small for him, but had shorter legs which we needed. ![]() Lay them out on the costume to check size. So, I just found an old tshrit and pair of shorts. Just use his clothes as an inner layer! That way we can stuff around him and still get in and out with out an issue. But we already sewed the whole thing up! No way I want to take it apart and then all that work to figure out how to do an inner layer.ģ. ![]() But what if he has to pee? That would be a mess to get out of and horrible to get back in, plus stuffing would prolly fall out the leg holes and arm holes.Ģ. Just throw stuffing on all around him when he is ready to wear it. So here was the dilemma, how in the world do we stuff this thing? We thought we could just throw some blankets in there with him and be good, but they are too heavy. Once you have your pattern, trace it on yellow fabric. My son is over 48in tall and It swallows him pretty good. So take that into account when making your pattern. You can see from the photos of the finished costume that this size was WAY bigger than we needed. I cut mine out on the inside of the black line, so that there is no black outline left. You can see that the lines are blurry because of the size increase. Print the 10 pages of the pattern and piece it together and cut it out. I blew up the pattern in Photoshop and printed in tiles so it can be taped together to make a large pattern. I did some pretty ridiculous math to try to figure out how big I needed to make my pattern, but decided I had no idea how it translated from small to big so through the math out the window and just measured my kid and guessed. When its made from this size, the ball is about softball sized. You make 6 of them and sew them together. Like I said, I found a plushy ball pattern online. I didn't like the kids one with the drawn on nose and the adult one wasn't much better for what I wanted. Here you can see the pictures of the costumes you can buy. Hilarious trying to get up and trying to fit in the car I tried to take pictures at all the steps to share and I'll do my best to try to explain what I did.Īlso see our Playable pacman arcade game costume. This costume was a bunch of trial and error. Anyways, so I found a pattern for a plushy ball and ran with it. I couldn't find any pictures of one made by anyone, but there were a few you could buy. Of course, the first step to making anything is to check Instructables! So, I did and there was nothing on making the 3-D version, plenty of ideas for the normal one though. And I'm like, there's a Pacman cartoon? And sure enough, he shows me on Netflix on his Ipad and I'm like, well, crap, this just got a whole lot harder!įorget the easy 2-d circle with a triangle cut out, now we need a 3-d spherical costume. When my boys first said they wanted Pacman, I was all like, yes, I got this! Easy! I'll grab some cardboard and some paint and we're good! Then Zander was like, no, mom, not that one! I want the one from the cartoon. Pac-man themed Halloween for us this year.
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