Strawberry Shortcake Costume

Well, here’s the last of the kid costumes!  Strawberry Shortcake, a regular favorite around here for my girlies.  We had planned on doing this last year, but didn’t at the last minute.  To make the dress, I used the Twirly T-Shirt Dress tutorial, and just ironed on the fabric details to the shirt first.  I couldn’t find polka-dot fabric for the skirt, so I found some clearance knit and stamped it with fabric paint- at first, the dots were light pink but they really disappeared after they dried, so I went over each one with red paint after.  Still hard to see, but better than it was.

The hat is missing the green brim, but really… it is a Halloween costume, not something for a theatre show or something.  I had cut out and stamped a piece for the hat, but I think my husband threw it away… so I used a scrap of pink knit from hobby lobby.  Lil Blue Boo has a tutorial for a cap like this; I made this one smaller because of the small scrap I had.

Again, the perfect green and white tights are from Goodwill (they are new items, so most stores should have them in stock) and she was due for new shoes anyway so I just went with pink! We have red hair spray we will use for the actual costume-wearing events, and a backup wig just in case.

She is delighted with the outcome and we can’t wait to wear it all for our Church Halloween party on Saturday!

In case you missed it, her sisters are going as Purple Plum, and a Turtle.  Mike and I are borrowing costumes to be Flamenco dancers… someday we will all go as a coordinated group!