Costume – DIY – Starbucks Cup
My tween’s costume was by request. She prefers DIY costume and this means being very creative with bringing the concept to reality. We searched Pinterest for inspiration. There are different variations of design and I found the hardest part was deciding on what material to use for the actual cup design. I realized early on trying to find cylindrical white cardboard is very difficult. After brainstorming, we decided to use a plastic trash can. Although, the trash can is oval in shape it made our DIY more unique. The first step was cutting the bottom from the trash can. We made the whipped cream by using two pieces of felt(used a smaller logo to cut the circles) hot glued together. (thanks to Southern Curls and Pearls) and these were hot glued to the outside of the rim. The logo (downloaded from Southern Curls and Pearls) was enlarged and hot glued on the front. For the back, we googled “back of Starbucks Cup” and I used a sharpie to handwrite the text. The adhesive letters were purchased from Target last year. I hot glued them to prevent the letters from falling off. The final step was threading the elastic material through each side so she could wear for parade and trick or treating. The elastic band was cut in two and slits were made on each side of the can. The total cost for purchased materials was about $35.00.
Materials:
White Trash Can-Target
Elastic 2yds – Joann Fabrics
Utility Knife-Target
Felt (ivory) – 1 yd- Joann Fabrics
Hot Glue Gun-Joann Fabrics
Letters with adhesive-Target
Sharpie
