For the past five out of eight years of Halloween costumes Henry has been an animal of some sort or the other. This year was no different...
This was not his original plan, but once he knew that Violet was going as a witch... he knew he wanted to be her black cat!
I'm not sure whether it's the tail...
or the ears...
Or just the fact that he loves animals so much...
But he couldn't have been happier at the prospect of being a cat!
The top is the Rowan tee and and the pants are the Wild and Free Lounge Pants...both in black french terry from Raspberry Creek Fabrics. I had a bit of velvet leftover from Violet's witches cape which meant that Henry got a velvet kangaroo pocket which he adores!
His cat ears and the stripe along the top of his hood are also velvet...
I added a reflective strip of trim along the bottom edge of the hoodie for Henry's costume as well (where the cuff meets the top) so he wasn't completely invisible in the night...though that didn't stop him from being stealthy!
The mask is simply two layers of black felt...soft copper jewelry wire tucked between the layers for whiskers, and more felt for facial features...I had two whip it up in less than a half an hour, but really love the way it turned out!
And the candy bucket is simply a traditional jack o lantern bucket with paper modge podged to it, and then painted...similarly to this one.
There have been a lot of tails around here during Halloween...but let's face it...this kid really knows how to be a good animal!
And that's a Halloween 2017 wrap!
Until next year!