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Forest Elf or Fairy Costume

Halloween· Halloween Costumes

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Our luscious garden had the perfect materials for this year’s Halloween costume which is a forest elf or fairy costume made from twigs, leaves and pretty makeup.

It’s such a simple costume and I wanted to do so much more but you have no idea how much actually went wrong along the way. First off the weather has been terrible all year and even though we’ve been thinking about doing this since we got back from Germany, the fact that there have been continuous downpours hasn’t helped getting this blog post finished.
We’ve been busy every weekend with soccer and birthdays… I also bought a new camera and am still learning which is partly the reason for some of the photos being a little blurry. It’s a learning curve for sure and I don’t have all the right lenses yet.

I first had this idea when I saw how big our elephant ears had gotten over the summer because we all look like garden gnomes next to them.

forest elf costume

I had taken photos along the way about how we made the crown and skirt and they all got deleted accidentally…soooo this is my best attempt at explaining to you how we made this super simple costume.

We hope you enjoy it anyways.

forest elf or fairy costume tutorial

Materials used:

  • tan tank top/dress (HERE), tube top dress (HERE) or for colder weather a bodysuit HERE, HERE or HERE
  • leaf branches in different colors from any yard
  • flat elastic string cord (HERE)
  • belt (similar one HERE)
  • dried moss (HERE one color or a variety of colors)
  • gold crafting wire (HERE)
  • elf ears (HERE)
  • fairy wings optional and these HERE are perfect (we chose not to get them)
  • fresh branches/sticks from a tree
  • if you don’t have long hair like my daughter then you can use a wig like this one HERE or HERE
  • a variety of makeup and this is what I used:
    – primer (I used this one HERE)
    – pale foundation  (I used foundation color HERE in fair)
    – a variety of green eye shadow (HERE in hunty, HERE  in zodiac)
    – green eye liner (this one HERE is what I used and it is awesome for the details)
    – gold glitter liner (HERE in midnight cowboy which I’ve had for years and it’s awesome)
    – black eyeliner (HERE)
    – cream eye shadow (HERE)
    – gold cream or powder (HERE in honey color)
    – black mascara (I use nothing but this one HERE)
    – eyebrow pencil (HERE)
    – glitter lip gloss (love this one HERE)

 

Simple forest elf costume instructions: 

For the forest elf or fairy’s crown I cut down fresh thin branches and removed the foliage. Key is that they are fresh and bendable. If they are dried then they break way too easy.
We lost the photos for these steps but when you look at the photo below then you can see exactly what we did and my daughter pretty much made the crown herself.
All you need to do is take the twigs and form them into a crown while wrapping them with the gold crafting twine. We added some small plants and the moss but you can go all out and add gem stones or more plants and twigs and even fake butterflies or other insects.

forest elf crown

The leaf skirt for the forest elf or forest fairy was so so easy that I’m almost embarrassed to say what we did. I knotted flat elastic cord around her waist and literally just hung branches on it the way it is pictured below. I had her wearing the band and just kept going all the way around her waist with different colored leaved branches until the skirt was full.

forest elf or fairy leaf skirt

After that I used a belt that I tied over the branch ends. If you don’t have one like mine, any belt would do or even a pretty scarf. And you can just tuck some more leaves into it afterwards and use some more wires to help them stay attached.

forest elf leaf skirt details

I originally wanted to use bark for her costume somewhere which I had collected in abundance but she was so frustrated with her tight shirt that I skipped that idea. Remember she grew up with sensory issues (you can catch up on her journey HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, yup it’s a lot) and tight clothing still bothers her sometimes although things have gotten much much better.

Here is my movie about how I applied the makeup that you can see in the below photos: It’s not difficult at all.

 

And now we are ready to share a ton of photos with you which is always our favorite part. She was complaining along the way though. I’m not going to lie 🙂

You can use glue for the ears but we chose not to because it worked good without and we didn’t want to risk getting her hair stuck in glue.

forest elf makeup

forest fairy makeup

forest elf costume makeup

forest fairy costume makeup

forest elf ears for costume

attaching forest elf ears

tiny forest elf hiding under big leaves

little forest elf with big leaves

forest fairy with big leaves

tiny forest fairy hiding under big leaves

forest elf sitting in a tree

forest elf hiding in grass

forest elf liking in a tree

 

beautiful forest elf costume

pretty forest fairy costume

forest elf hiding on tree branches

forest fairy sitting on a tree branch

And it was freezing that day for the first time. Go figure!!! It’s been ridiculously hot nonstop but when we have time to do this it ends up being wet and freezing cold.

little forest elf or fairy

forrest fairy costume

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And I’m really really curious to what and if you are dressing up or what your kids are dressing up as. Please do tell.

Tschüß,

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  1. cassie bustamante says

    October 15, 2018 at 4:19 am

    this is super cute! it reminds me of the elf costumes emmy and i did together last year- they were my favorites!

    • Julia says

      October 15, 2018 at 7:33 am

      Yes it is definitely similar.

  2. June Pope says

    October 15, 2018 at 5:00 am

    So creative! You are both so beautiful and smart. I hope she knows what a great mom she has.

    • Julia says

      October 15, 2018 at 7:33 am

      Thanks June, she was actually rather annoyed with me and my photoshoot 😉

  3. Susan says

    October 15, 2018 at 5:38 am

    Wow! Amazing costume and what a beautiful young lady! Well done!!

    • Julia says

      October 15, 2018 at 7:33 am

      Thank you so much Susan

  4. Debby says

    October 15, 2018 at 6:12 am

    You are so creative:) The costume is great and your daughter is beautiful, just like her mom.

    • Julia says

      October 15, 2018 at 7:34 am

      Thank you for the kind compliment Debby

  5. Ingrid Aller says

    October 15, 2018 at 9:23 am

    Lovely costume and absolutely gorgeous model! And yep, she is at the age where mom is annoying. Go figure…

    • Julia says

      October 15, 2018 at 9:28 am

      Ugh I know! I’m annoying and my blog is annoying but at the end she enjoys having the photos and I told her I’d make her a photobook with all her costume photos over the year. So she is happy in the end.
      And thank you.

  6. Mary C says

    October 15, 2018 at 9:42 am

    She looks so grown up in these photos! And she should be modeling, she’s beautiful! Maybe because I’ve been following you since she was much younger, these photos with the makeup make her look like she’s 17.
    What a great idea and most of the costume is biodegradable, lol!

  7. [email protected] Stroll Thru Life says

    October 15, 2018 at 11:17 am

    Oh my word, this is amazing. How creative

  8. Brenda Hayes says

    October 15, 2018 at 12:44 pm

    Your daughter is BEAUTIFUL ! Hope Dad has the shotgun ready !

    I soooo enjoy your site.

  9. Marilyn says

    October 15, 2018 at 4:31 pm

    What a great costume. You did such a good job.
    Marilyn

  10. Alison says

    October 16, 2018 at 4:53 am

    What a creative costume and beautiful young lady. She really looks like she’s from another world, a fairy world. It’s been so interesting to see her Halloween costumes over the years.

  11. Kathleen Tweed says

    October 18, 2018 at 7:21 am

    Julia, you are a true artist! Your creativity amazes me! You really should be famous! The costume is so over the top great I don’t even know what to say. Your daughter is into character too which helps pull the whole thing off! Good job! Great Job! She is so beautiful too!

  12. Gretchen says

    October 24, 2018 at 1:20 pm

    Amazing job as usual–and your backyard is SO PERFECT for this costume!

    • Julia says

      October 26, 2018 at 5:45 am

      thanks Gretchen

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