I am always looking for frugal ideas in almost every area of our family expenses and adventures, so this year when Lathan asked to be a kitten for the church Fall Festival I was contemplating ideas. Initially I strolled through my local thrift stores looking for a costume, but I could not find a cat that was "creative" or suitable for a 4 year old. And since it was just a Fall Festival, I decided to just make ears and paint his face, and have him wear a black sweat suit with a tail I would make sewn onto the rear-end. I was pleasantly surprised how easy and inexpensive my ideas were once I got to work on the ears. The painting was an easy get because I just had to buy $3.48 face paint at wal-mart and the brush I already had. Well here are the supplies you will need, and let me mention, this would be great not only for Halloween, but for play ideas and creative thinking projects, etc. The total cost for 2 sets of ears and the tails (Zebulon is going to be a smaller kitten) was $7.58. I had everything needed already except for the felt and clips and face paint.
Supplies:
Glue gun with glue
Felt, 2 black sheets, 1 white ($.20/each at wal-mart)
scissors
black thread and a needle
stuffing cotton (optional, but does make them for 3D)
snap clips (about $3.50 at wal-mart, but you only need 2 of them)
So I cut out the felt in mirrored triangular shapes and I sewed the edges stuffing the cotton in the last unsewn side before completely sewing them.
Then I hot glued the white triangular felt piece to the middle of the ear, and finally hot glueing the entire ear to the clip.
And walla, 1 cat ear completed. Now for the 2nd one.
In total this took me about 15 minutes for both ears and provided a days worth of fun for Lathan ;)
