"SEEKING: Kansas, Brain, Heart, & Courage Costume"

Costume Instructions

Costume Materials
Cowardly Lion: Altered baby lion costume, red ribbon, brown face paint

Tin-Man: 1 roll of sheet metal, J-B Weld Epoxy, nuts, bolts, washers, tin snips, #12 AWG solid wire, plastic toy axe, cheap funnel, bald cap, spirit gum, silver spray paint, silver face paint, cheap shoes, gloves, silver one-piece outfit bought at the costume store, metal paper rivets

Scare Crow: brown pants, different colored material for patches, blue sweater, brown hooded sweat-shirt, material for hat, sewing machine, rope, straw, gardening gloves, face paint, brown socks, work boots

Dorothy: Altered Dorothy costume, blue ribbon, makeup, brown basket, gray stuffed animal as Toto, flat dress shoes, red sparkled slip cover for shoes, red bow, blue socks

Wicked Witch: Altered black long dress with puffy sleeves, black cape, witches hat, broom, black scarf, black shoes, pantyhose, green nail polish, green makeup

Costume Instructions
Cowardly Lion: We found a lion costume at the baby clothing store which needed to be altered to fit our baby. We tied a red ribbon in her hair and painted brown whiskers on her face. This was by far the easiest costume to make.

Tin-Man: The Tin-Man costume took us longer than any of the other costumes. My husband took a roll of sheet metal and, with tin-snips, cut the hole out for the arms and folded back all available rough edges to make a nice smooth edge. We glued silver painted metal paper rivets bought from the office supply store every 2 inches down the body of the costume to look like the costume was bolted together. He then cut the top portion, which covers our son’s shoulders and cut notches along the edge which were then folded down and glued (with JB Weld epoxy) to the body. We did this in two halves and applied Velcro to each half to hold them together as a whole. The collar was cut in two halves also and in the front we folded the pointed edge down to make the bow-tie. The collar was also notched out at the bottom then bent back to glue to the shoulder plates. Our son wore a cheap silver costume with the same metal rivets going down the pant legs. His shoulder guards were made of 3 oval shaped pieces of sheet metal bolted together to another piece of sheet metal made to wrap around his arm. The bolts allowed the oval pieces to swivel and flex inside of each other to give his arms flexibility. The whole assemblies were then attached to the silver outfit with the rivets at the highest point of the shoulder. Finally, all of the sharp edges were protected with the insulation from the #12 gauge wire spray painted silver.
His funnel hat was painted silver and attached to the silver-painted bald cap with spirit gum, which was attached to his head the same way. We spray painted gloves and some cheap shoes silver. We finished by painting his entire face silver and applied a black dot on the tip of his nose.

Scare Crow: We used the brown pants and sewed pieces of fabric on them for patches. We then cut the blue sweatshirt down the length of it and stuffed the opening with straw as well as other slits throughout the shirt. We took a light brown hooded sweatshirt and cut off all but the hood and about 8 inches of fabric below it. We frayed the end of the fabric to make it look like it was old burlap and tied it closed with rope around my husband’s neck. The hat was homemade from felt material and we placed straw in a few points in between his head and the hat. We then tied rope around his waist and wrists and stuffed the pants into his boots with more straw. We finally painted his face orange to match the hood and his nose brown to look like a fabric nose.

Dorothy: We acquired an inexpensive Dorothy costume and altered the size to fit our daughter. We added the lace undergarment under her dress. I wrapped her hair with blue ribbon and tied it in bows. Finally, we wrapped her dress shoes with red sparkled slip covers and gave her some makeup.

Wicked Witch: I altered a long black dress to my size and threw on a black cape. My hat and broom was from a costume store but we added a scarf to the hat. I used back pantyhose and some old black dress shoes with a chrome buckle. I finally painted my face and nails green and worked on my best witch voice.