DIY Unicorn Costume

This costume turned out to be one of the easiest I’ve ever done! The goal here was to make it magical and part of making it magical, for me, meant I wanted to make the attachment of the costume as hidden as possible. I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out.

DIY Unicorn Dog Costume

Supplies:

•  Hot glue gun
• Scissors
•  Small hole punch
•  Mesh witch hat
•  Pink foam sheet (I ended up using a sparkle purple instead)
•  White felt sheet
•  4-6 side combs
• Thin white elastic
• Gold ribbon (I used a more whimsical ribbon, and gold elastic)
•  4 fastening brads
•  Light pink yarn
•  Hot pink yarn
•  Purple yarn
•  Aqua yarn

I can't get over how great those hooves are! 

She has no idea how cute she looks!

She's a Proud Pony

1.     To make the unicorn horn, take the witch hat and cut the brim off and discard the brim portion.

2.     Wrap the white felt around the hat and hot glue in place. Tuck the excess felt inside of the cone.

3.     Wrap the gold ribbon from top to bottom of horn. Secure with hot glue.

4.     Measure with the elastic, the circumference of your pets head from the top of the head, around the chin keeping elastic behind the ears.

5.     Cut elastic, leaving two extra inches. Hot glue each end inside horn like a party hat.

6.     Hot glue a side comb inside the horn for added security. I made mine removable by hot gluing elastic loops for the comb to attach to.

7.     For the mane, I cut 6-8 inch sections of the 4colors of yarn. You’ll want to adjust for the size of your pet. Tie the 6-8 inch sections in a knot at the center to a long piece of yarn, Creating a long “stack” of tied yarn. Knot each end of the long piece of yarn to ensure the shorter sections don’t slide off.

8.     Take 3 side combs; secure one to the top, middle and near the end by hooking sections of the comb through the yarn knots.

9.     For the tail, you can hot glue yarn to the side combs. I took a hair elastic and tied a knot, at the center of 12-14inch yarn sections, all the way around the elastic. I packed it tightly for a full dramatic look.

10.  Pinch the elastic in half. Secure one side comb through the yarn knots on the top section and another side comb through the knots at the bottom.

11.  To make hooves, cut out 4 half moon shapes. Fit to your dog’s feet, adjust moon shape if necessary. Hole punch (as small as possible) where the foam needs to meet, and secure with fastening brad.

If you dog’s hair doesn’t allow for side comb fastening, use elastic in place of combs.