Frog costume

I need instructions or a pattern to make a frog costume for my daughters
school play. I'm a good sewer, so there's no problem there, I just don't
have the imagination.

Does anyone have any patterns?

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 07:01:47 GMT, "Jen"
wrote:

I need instructions or a pattern to make a frog costume for my daughters
school play. I'm a good sewer, so there's no problem there, I just don't
have the imagination.

Does anyone have any patterns?

When my daughter's school did "Once On This Island", I was helping
with costumes and frogs were part of the story. What we ended up doing
was having the kids wear green leotards with green t-shirts over them.
For some reason the art teacher tie-dyed yellow circles onto the
t-shirts; it looked pretty cool. She had started with white shirts. We
made "frog eye" headbands: take a styrofoam ball and cut it in two. I
used 3" balls so they would show. Paint them green and add big black
dots for eyes. Glue them to a stiff plastic headband. As a finishing
touch, the kids' faces were covered with green face paint. The overall
effect was pretty frog-like.

If you need to add something to make them more realistic, cut webbed
hands and feet out of 1" foam, spray paint them green and attach them
to the kids' hands and feet with elastic.

Good luck!

--Welmoed

That sounds alright, I might go with something similar. Thanks


"Welmoed Sisson" wrote in message
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 07:01:47 GMT, "Jen"
wrote:

I need instructions or a pattern to make a frog costume for my daughters
school play. I'm a good sewer, so there's no problem there, I just don't
have the imagination.

Does anyone have any patterns?

When my daughter's school did "Once On This Island", I was helping
with costumes and frogs were part of the story. What we ended up doing
was having the kids wear green leotards with green t-shirts over them.
For some reason the art teacher tie-dyed yellow circles onto the
t-shirts; it looked pretty cool. She had started with white shirts. We
made "frog eye" headbands: take a styrofoam ball and cut it in two. I
used 3" balls so they would show. Paint them green and add big black
dots for eyes. Glue them to a stiff plastic headband. As a finishing
touch, the kids' faces were covered with green face paint. The overall
effect was pretty frog-like.

If you need to add something to make them more realistic, cut webbed
hands and feet out of 1" foam, spray paint them green and attach them
to the kids' hands and feet with elastic.

Good luck!

--Welmoed

Simplicity, McCall's & Butterick all carried a frog pattern. There was also
one of Kermit out there years ago, but I can't recall the maker. Have you
tried EBay or googling for the patterns?
Check your local sewing centre as they are just getting this year's crop of
Halloween costume patterns in. I know that the frog in Simplicity was still
available up to about a year ago (and might still be).
Cynthia
"Jen" wrote in message
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I need instructions or a pattern to make a frog costume for my daughters
school play. I'm a good sewer, so there's no problem there, I just don't
have the imagination.

Does anyone have any patterns?

Jen:
I just googled and came up with this site:
http://sewing.about.com/gi/dynamic/o...lcro/Hood.html
I would use large Styrofoam balls instead of ping pong balls (you will need
the larger balls to make a better impact - especially from stage). I would
then cover the split half balls with a circle of white lycra fabric (or
similar stretch fabric scraps) and paint on a pupil with black fabric paint.
Actually, I would also make an inner hood to conform to the head and an
outer hood that is larger and more froggy looking. I would stuff that hood
with some fibrefill...but that is because I like to go all the way with my
costume ideas.
Cynthia
"Jen" wrote in message
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I need instructions or a pattern to make a frog costume for my daughters
school play. I'm a good sewer, so there's no problem there, I just don't
have the imagination.

Does anyone have any patterns?

Welmoed,

I live on an island where the kids just
did the same play.

Susan
aka Betsy Ross