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DIY Halloween Costume: Purple Rain

by on Oct 24, 2016

It would be a shame to leave a Prince-themed costume out of our DIY costume repertoire this Halloween, for three compelling reasons:

1. Everyone admires Prince.

2. We live in Minneapolis, a city that holds Prince in its heart.

3. He epitomizes what it means to be an artist. He is a legend.  

So this Halloween, we’re paying tribute to Prince with a Purple Rain-inspired costume. Read on to find out what we did…


Materials   

Two purple pieces of paper next to a beige hat and orange scissors on a white table

Step

Shape small balls out of the Poly-fil and attach them to your hat with a glue gun. To be most cloud-like, your balls should range in size of about a baseball to a softball. 

A woman is using a pink glue gun to attach cotton balls to the brim of a beige-colored hat.
A person attaching cotton to something.

Step

Cut raindrops out of your glitter paper. We stacked two sheets of glitter paper and cut so that our drops could be glued together with a sparkly side out. 

Step

Cut ribbon in varying lengths (ours were about 2-3 feet long).

Step

Using your hot glue gun, put a dab of glue on the inside (no-glitter side) of a raindrop, place your ribbon down the center of the drop and place the matching raindrop on top to make a completely glittery raindrop. Repeat, spacing your raindrops as you like.

A person is glueing something to a white wall.

Step

Sew one end of your ribbon-y raindrops to your hat. Repeat.

Prince purple rain costume

Don’t miss our other Halloween costume this year: Slash and Axl Rose

What’s your genius costume idea this year?

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