The crafty mom ritual of staying up late to finish putting together Halloween costumes has officially started… Baby’s first Halloween was so much fun! I figure, while Des is still a baby, I should dress him as cute and sweet as I want. Ever since I saw this post and this post by Dana, I have been wanting to try my hand at creating a scene or character from a kid’s book. Des loves to read Goodnight Moon before he goes to sleep and has started helping me find all the different objects and animals in the pictures. (It is just too cute to see him point things out!) So, of course, I decided to make him a Goodnight Moon bunny costume. I used this fabric from Michael Miller. The stripes are not quite as wide as I wanted, but the color was pretty close to the bunny’s in the book. I used the same shirt pattern as the lumberjack shirt to make the shirt, as well as the pant pattern that came with it. Thanks to my MIL for helping me rip out and re-sew the shirt, or I would have never finished it!
I made the bunny ears out of white fleece and figured it would be easier to keep the ears on his head if they were attached to a bonnet, but he was still not very happy about having floppy ears on his head. The red balloon did end up being a good distraction though! It was a super windy and cold Halloween, so our photo shoot ended up being a lot more quick and simple than planned. Isn’t he the cutest little bunny in pajamas you’ve ever seen?
