How to Make an Easy DIY Luigi Costume
How to make a simple and inexpensive DIY Luigi Costume for Halloween, including the hat, classic Mario overalls, and a power-up star.
How was your Halloween weekend? We had a busy weekend with a few Harvest Festivals and Trick-or-Treating -- and my little guy loved dressing up in his DIY Luigi Costume for the activities.
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If it were up to my three-year-old, he'd play Mario Brothers through all his waking hours. His favorite character in the game is Luigi -- I think, partly, because he just loves the color green.
Of all his costumes, this was the simplest by far (he has been a dinosaur, a bug, a pumpkin, and a Mouseketeer).
How to Make an Easy DIY Luigi Costume
This easy Luigi costume pulls together quickly. A perfect green cap ,basic overalls, and a green long sleeve tee are the base components for this quick DIY project.
Everything else is made from felt and basic craft supplies.
How to Make a Luigi Costume
How to make an easy (and inexpensive!) DIY Luigi Costume for Halloween. This no-sew Halloween costume includes the classic Mario Game hats, overalls, and power-up stars.
Materials
- Yellow Felt Sheet
- Green Felt Sheet
- White Felt Sheet
- Green Newsboy-Style Cap
- Green Shirt
- Overalls
- Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
- Safety Pin (or Needle and Thread)
Tools
- Fabric Scissors
- Black Permanent Marker
Instructions
Luigi Logo
- Cut out one circle from the white felt with fabric scissors.
- Cut out an “L” from the green felt with fabric scissors.
- Attach the “L” to the white circle with hot glue.
- Attach the logo to the cap with safety pins (or needle and thread.)
Yellow Buttons
- Cut out two circles from the yellow felt with fabric scissors.
- Use a black permanent marker to draw 4 dots in a square.
- Connect the dots with an “X”.
- Attach the buttons to the overalls with safety pins (or needle and thread.)
Power-Up Star
- Cut out a star from the yellow felt with fabric scissors.
- Use a permanent marker to draw black oval-shaped eyes.
- Cut small dots from the white felt with fabric scissors.
- Hot glue the white dots to the center of the black eyes.
- Cut a short piece of string (approx 3″.)
- Loop the string and attach it to the back of the star with hot glue.
- Attach the star to the overalls by looping the string over one of the overall buttons.
Such an easy costume! Plus, the Luigi cap is now part of our "dress-up clothes (Halloween and playtime, a 2-in-1 DIY project).
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So cute! We had a Mario year a few years back (with Mario, Luigi, and Wa-Luigi), and I think we might have had that exact same cap from Amazon 🙂
It's a nice quality hat, I was impressed!
What size hat would you recommend for a 3 year old?
Follow this link to see an option with several sizes http://amzn.to/2xMZcUx XS-XXXL (affiliate link, fyi). We got a size M(7) for my 3 yr old and it was loose, but not so large that it was sliding down or anything. He has always had a large head though 🙂 so his head might be larger than a typical 3-year old's head. They do have this guide on the listing: XS/S(base 6 1/2), M/L(base 7), XL/2XL(base 7 1/2), 2XL/3XL(base 8) and it assuming it means inches, that seems pretty accurate. His size 7 is about 7" across the base.