Snail Costume
This is one of the last in our Homemade Halloween Series. The main thing you need for this costume is a brown kraft paper to make the shell. The little trick or treater wears it like a backpack. It is a pretty simple process, just try not to leave a trail of slime on the jaunt around the neighborhood for candy. Find the full instructions right here.
Click through for full instructions.Materials Needed: Brown Kraft Paper, Masking tape, Headband, Styrofoam Balls, Ribbon, Glue Gun
Step 1: Make the Shell. Crumple up a large section of brown paper. Starting at the corner, begin rolling it. Once you have a nice section begin wrapping it into a shell. Add tape as you go to hold it in place. Repeat until shell is at desired size. Go back with a glue gun and add glue into the shell so it sticks together without tape.
Step 2: Make another half shell and glue the two sides together. Take a square of cardboard and mount it to the shell. Tie ribbon to it to make a backpack.
Step 3: Make the Head band. Take a section of brown paper and crumple and roll it until it is stiff and stands on its own. Add styrofoam to the end and then hot glue the other end to the head band. Now you got yourself a bonafide snail costume.
Credits and our Talented Contributors:
All photography by Karen Cline of Pretty Simple Productions for Oh Happy Day
Art Directed by Jordan Ferney
Produced by Ashley Rose Kirschling
Styling by Irene Yu
Crafting by Caitlin Barker
Thanks to little ‘S’ for modeling!
Category: halloween, homemade halloween
34 Comments
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Oh Happy Day is a party and lifestyle blog based in San Francisco. We just moved back after spending a year in Paris, France. We love to throw parties and make things!
Sponsors
Ad Network
Completely astonishing and amazing. Bravo!
Ok, this one is adorable, and totally awesome for it’s originality! Who would think to be a snail? But after seeing this cuteness – who wouldn’t want to be a snail?
So, so cute! I hope I can talk my daughter into being a snail – right now she is dead set on a ghost.
awwww so lovely. I’ve made snail costumes before, but never thought of that way of making a shell–I’ve always just used boring cardboard! thanks for the inspiration x
I think this is my favorite one yet. Now I want to be a snail!
wow this is so cute and ingenious. i am doing this for my crawling baby.
Oh my goodness, this is the cutest thing.
How creative is this! I don’t have any kids yet but I can forsee Halloween being a total blast making cute creative costumes like these! In the meantime, I’ll keep working on adult Halloween costumes
Sarah
Cable Car Couture DIY Halloween Costumes
My favorite hands down. Pretty clever.
@sharon – my thoughts exactly! i’ve been looking for a costume for my 2 year old and will be happy/nervous to announce she’ll be a…..snail?!? damn near the cutest snail i’ve ever seen!
This is adorable!! I would never have thought to do this but I really love it!
Honestly….I would give my left arm to have even a fraction of this creativity !
I’ve been loving all the costumes, but this one is my FAVORITE!
Just finished my daughter’s owl costume last night, otherwise would’ve made this for her, she’s quite obsessed with snails. Maybe she still will be next year.
Love, love, love this series. Thank you!
This is absolutely adorable!
Aww, this is so great!! S loved taking pictures with you guys!! The snail costume is brilliant!
This is the most amazingly cute costume ever! Wow! Great job!
This is GREAT!!!!! I LOVE it!!!
xxxx Alessandra
this is the best costume I’ve seen this year! It is so stinking cute! Clever really! Great job! When I’m going to have a lil girl, I’m going to make this.
Thank you!
Naomi
Is that genius or what? So awesome! And looks so great and complete and just OH WOW!
Very great idea !
Hi Jordan! I have a friend who is going to be running in Halloween 10K and she jokingly said she’d dress up as a turtle or a snail when I happened upon this post. I shared it with her and she is totally going to do it
I made her promise to send me a picture! Thanks for all these darling costumes! So fun!
[...] dress (yes, really), and my 8 year old is still undecided, but I’m trying to talk her into this, which is possibly the best Halloween costume I have ever [...]
Hi, I love this idea and I’m thinking of making the snail costume for myself. Could you tell me please how big was the piece of paper you used?
What a great idea! I am going to do this for myself (an adult) except that I am going to make a big stamp and put it on my chest and go as “snail mail”.
this is such a goo idea! love it! have to do it with my kid, than you for the inspiration
[...] seen the Handmade Halloween Series by Oh Happy Day!!? Amazing. I think Rylee might have to be a snail next [...]
[...] kid’s snail costume DIY from Oh Happy [...]
[...] Snails are gross, except for this one. [...]
Nice idea and beautiful pictures!!!!
[...] Skeleton Costume 2. LEGO Costume 3. Artist Costume 4. Snail Costume 5. Ba Ba Black Sheep Costume 6. Cotton Candy Costume 7. Candy Corn Costume 8. Paper Doll Costume 9. [...]
[...] http://ohhappyday.com/2012/10/snail-costume/ [...]
I think this is my favorite yet. Or have I already said that?!! Seriously so cute!!
I absolutely want to be the adult version of this. Seriously adorable. And an excuse to walk suuuuuppppppeeeeerrrr slow.
From H&M!