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How to make your own

Festival Costumes PARENTAL


SUPERVISION
REQUIRED

To make your own mask and capes you require the following:-
PVC adhesive Some elastic
Tracing paper Needle and cotton
Pencil 2 pins
Beads for eyes Small sharp scissors
Different coloured felts
1. The first thing is to trace
out the vegetable pattern
you wish to make.

2. Pin the pattern to the coloured


felt you wish to use and cut out.

3. Sew a 50mm length of elastic to the


small oval felt cut out. Double the elastic back
on itself as shown to ensure it does not pull out.

4. Sew the eye beads 6. Trace out the cape shape.


in position.
7. Pin the trace to your felt and cut out.
8. Cut a small button hole on one side
5. Cover work area with old newspaper to protect work surface. Using and sew a bead on the other.
a little PVC adhesive, stick all the parts of the mask together and leave
to dry out fully.

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