Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Upcycling Old Dance Costumes into new Halloween Costumes!

With Halloween right around the corner, you've probably already started thinking about your child's Halloween costume.  Costumes can be spendy, and are usually only worn once or twice for the holiday.  Using an old dance costume and coming up with a new way to wear it can save you both time and money.

An old costume made new!
Lily wore this green dance costume two years ago at Dance Arts.  This year for Halloween she has upcycled her old costume into a fancy bunny costume.  She paired it with white tights and a white shirt (which she already had), and added a pair of bunny ears.  For a cotton tail they took a white sock, put it in a ball and pinned it on to the back of this costume.  Now this little bunny can bounce around the neighborhood trick or treating.

There are countless ways you can upcycle costumes.  Easy characters to use an old tutu for include fairy's, angels, butterfly's, insects and (of course) ballerinas.  Here is a great blog article about how to turn old dance costumes into new Halloween costumes. 

We hope this will  inspire you to come up with a new way to use those old costumes!

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