Following the success of our Maileg Halloween costumes a few weeks ago, I thought it would be fun to make some Maileg Christmas costumes too. We love our Maileg mice, and at this time of year they are joined by the Maileg reindeer family too.
To make your own Maileg Christmas costumes you will need:
Cardboard tubes
Acrylic paint (white, red, brown)
Sharpies (black, orange, white)
Glue
Scissors/scalpel
DIY Maileg Christmas costumes
We decided to make a few different costumes for our Maileg mice: a Christmas present, a snowman and a gingerbread man. We painted the cardboard tubes in red, white and brown and set them aside to dry.
When the red tube was dry we cut armholes for our mice. We added a cardboard bow by trimming a tube into thin strips, painting them red and glueing them to make a bow.
The snowman costume was the easiest to make. We painted the cardboard tube white, trimmed it slightly and cut two arm holes.
Then drew on a snowman face.
Our Maileg gingerbread man wears a brown painted cardboard tube, trimmed so it can sit inside the tube. We cut two small holes for the arms to poke through. We added eyes, a mouth, bow-tie and buttons in white to look like icing.
We added a fourth DIY costume to look like a Christmas pudding! This tube was painted brown with black dots for currants. We found a holly decoration to embellish the costume.
We can mix and match our handmade Maileg costumes this Christmas. My daughter will have so much fun adding our handmade Maileg costumes to our gingerbread house.
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