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Homemade Costumes
An Inexpensive Tradition
By Jessica Williams
Find a long, thin box that is about three-quarters as tall as your child and wide enough for your child to sit in (he won't sit in the box when you are done with it, but this is a good way to measure it). Try your local music shop for boxes they use to ship guitars and other instruments.
Next, take a measurement of your child's waist and draw that circumference on the bottom of the box, near the center. Cut this hole out and let your child "try on" the box by pulling it up around the waist. For the cowboy's legs, duct tape a pair of cowboy boots to the inside of the old pair of jeans. Stuff the boots and the legs of the jeans.
Cut off the flaps of the box. Take these pieces of cardboard and cut out two front horse legs and a horse head. Paint the sides of a horse on both sides of the box, then paint the legs and head (details are important – don't forget hooves and a mane). When the paint is dry, tape, glue or staple the legs to the inside of the box (one on each side) toward the front. Your child's own legs will be the horse's back legs.
Dress your child in cowboy gear from the waist up; put him in brown or black sweats from the waist down (depending on the color of your horse). Let him put on the box, then place the stuffed jeans on the box directly in front of him. Swing one leg over each side and then loop a belt around your child and through the belt loops of the stuffed jeans. With the holster over the belt, your child is a coboy riding into the sunset!
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