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My son is very happy with his costume and can’t wait to wear it to school for the fall party.We don't really condone violence unless it's in the kind of high-octane sword-fighting action scenes that Quentin Tarantino features in his movies. I repeated the process for the second arm guard. This process made it so that there are 2 elastic bands to hold the leather arm guard in place.

Then, I hot glued the final leather piece over the plastic. I drew up the elastic ends, and hot-glued them to the plastic. On top of the leather, I layered one of the pieces of plastic. I laid 2 strips of elastic on a piece of newspaper and topped them with one piece of leather.

I wanted the arm guards to be stiff, so I cut out pieces of thin plastic from a folder that were slightly smaller than the leather pieces. To make the arm guards, I cut 4 pieces of leather in an arm guard shape. For added security, I hot glued a square of foam board over each end. Next, I hot-glued a piece of elastic to the back of the shield for a handle. Using a craft knife, I cut out the shield. I cut out the shield sections and glued them to a piece of foam core. Then, I cropped the image into 4 sections and printed the shield sections on 4 separate full-size pieces of paper.

#Im just a bill costume software#

I made the basic shield with photo editing software by starting from a coloring sheet I found online. This step is optional, but since I had some blue leather on hand, my son really wanted me to add it. Then, I sewed a piece of blue leather to the top of each glove to make a blue cuff. I cut the fingers off of a pair of secondhand leather gloves. We folded the top of the leather sleeve down to make the upper cuff of the boot.

The slit is in the back and makes it possible for the leather to fit over the shoe. We pulled the leather sleeve down so that it covered the laces of his shoes. To wear the boots, my son slid the prepared leather sleeve over his pant legs and then put on a pair of brown shoes. I cut a small slit up from the bottom of the leather sleeve and cut the top straight across. I cut the arms off of a secondhand brown leather jacket, removing the buttons and lining. Next, I worked on making leather “boots,” which are actually more like leather leg warmers. I sewed the headband to the opening of the hat. I cut a long, narrow rectangle from the left over green fabric and sewed the short ends together to make a headband. From the rectangles, I cut 2 large triangles, which I sewed together to make a pointed hat. I cut the second green shirt along the side seams to make 2 large rectangles of fabric. I made the hat, tunic, gloves, boots, shield and arm guards.įirst, I cut off the collar and buttons from one of the green shirts so that it became the tunic.

The store bought or preowned part of the costume include khaki pants, sword, brown shoes, gray undershirt and 2 brown belts. This year my son’s costume is a mix of store bought and handmade items. He’s been showing me pictures of what Link looks like and reminding me ever since he decided.įor the most part, I prefer putting together a costume with my children rather than buying a premade one because it will last longer and be more comfortable. My son decided months ago that he wanted to be Link from Zelda for Halloween this year. Please read my disclosure policy.Īs Halloween grows closer, the big question in every child’s mind are how much candy will they get and what should they be for Halloween! The choices are endless but they only get to choose one costume and they want it to be the perfect one.