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Baby Butterhead Lettuce
This costume reminds us how important it is to eat – and wear – your veggies. Made in partnership with our friends at Gotham Greens, a fresh food company farming with the future in mind. Learn more about their sustainable greenhouses here!
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Materials
- One green zip footie
- Light green felt
- Green pipe cleaners
- Velcro
Tools
- Hot glue gun & sticks
- Scissors
Instructions
Create the hood
- Use an existing hood from a hoodie to trace the pattern onto green felt.
- Cut about ½” from the traced edge.
- Glue the hood together along the seam line.
Create the leaves
- Cut wide bibb lettuce leaf shapes from green felt.
- Glue pipe cleaner veins to each leaf. This will also help to give the leaves structure and shape.
- Pinch and hot glue the base of each leaf for shaping, as shown below.
- Curl the ends of each leaf gently by bending the pipe cleaners.
Assemble the costume
- Hot glue the leaves layered over each other and connected to each other, starting on the hood, and cascading down the shoulders, back, and chest. Leave an opening in the front, essentially making a hooded cape of leaves. The front leaves should layer over each other a bit when worn.
- Hot glue a velcro closure just under the front of the hood to hold the costume closed.