Forest Elf or Fairy Costume

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.

Materials used:

tan tank top/dress leaf branches in different colors flat elastic string cord + + + gold crafting wire + elf ears + gold crafting wire + fairy wings + fresh branches/sticks + a wig if you don't have long hair + a variety of makeup (click below for list) + Learn more

I cut down fresh thin branches and removed the foliage. All you need to do is take the twigs and form them into a crown while wrapping them with the gold crafting twine.

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

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.

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.

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