Easiest Ever No Sew Pirate Costume

Phew!
What a weekend we have had.
It was BigSmall’s birthday, so we had a Lego Party Extravaganza (more on this to come, stay tuned…), but ALSO had a friend’s Pirate Party to go to as well.

All good pirate parties, need lots of little pirates, so we needed a pirate costume.

And if you need one too, it is EASY PEASY.

This is what you need:

• One small boy or girl
• An old pair of jeans (you may recognise these ones as the much patched pair I have blogged about several times-when the second knee went, I decided to retire them from active duty and they now live again as pirates trousers)

• an old t-shirt (kiddy sized)

 

• another t-shirt-preferably stripy, but if we hadn’t unearthed a stripy one, I was going to go with one of his white school polo shirts
• a scarf to make a bandana
• an eye patch-my mother in law found this one, but you could make one pretty easily
• an old curtain ring and some elastic
• scissors!

This is what you do:

• Chop the legs off the jeans-I went with a ‘zig-zag motif’, but whatever you fancy
• Chop the arm off your t-shirt, then cut up the middle of the front, so that it starts to look vaguely like a waistcoat. Then carefully cut off the neck band bit, and then ‘zig-zag’ the bottom if you so wish. Ta da-one waistcoat!
• Use the scarf to make a bandana, apply the eye patch, and make an earring out of the curtain ring by tying a length of elastic around it and then hanging off small person’s ear

I also added a quick eyeliner beard before we went out.

This is BigSmall’s best “Ooo-ar me hearties” face…