This is my little miss in this year's costume! It turned out even better than we planned - and I want to make sure to thank my awesome husband for helping SO much with this project! He's the pro scuba diver {I'm certified, but nowhere near as cool as he is!}, so he made sure we had all the parts we needed, and did so much to make it look amazing!! We are lucky girls :)
Supplies
Backpack/Leash/Harness {the animal ones would work fine, too}
Black long sleeved shirt
Black pants/leggings
Silver spray paint
Craft foam
Two 2-liter soda bottles
One 1-liter soda bottle
4-6 scouring pads
1 yard nylon webbing {pink, of course}
Black nylon webbing with plastic buckle {sports section of store}
Black cord keeper tube
Plastic zip ties
**Safety goggles
1. Cut the top section off of the 1-liter soda bottle. Spray paint scouring pads, both 2-liter bottles, and the top of the 1-liter bottle with the silver paint. Let dry COMPLETELY.
2. Remove black nylon from the buckle and replace with the pink nylon {this step can be optional}. Adjust to fit around your child's waist to make the belt. We also attached pink webbing to the straps of the backpack/harness with safety pins to add more color.
3. Roll the scouring pad onto itself, and hot glue. Then attach the rolled pads onto the sides of the belt with hot glue to make the weights.
4. Use the zip ties to attach the 2-liter soda bottles to the backpack. {You can use one bottle instead of two, but we liked the look of two better.} It also helps to use the zip ties to attach the bottles together as well so they won't wiggle all over the place.
5. Cut two long pieces of the cord keeper tube and connect to the "tanks" by hot gluing the tubing to the outer side of each of the 2-liter bottles. Let dry/cool and then connect the other ends to the lid of the 1-liter bottle. You can also cut a hole in the lid of the 1-liter bottle to make a more believable regulator.
6. For fins, I just freehanded the shapes on the craft foam, cut a strip and hot glued it on the back. Then I just put the velcro from her shoes through the loop to keep them on her feet.
{With how much she ran around at the Halloween party, let's just say it's a good thing we had a whole sheet of the foam. The strips tore and the fins were pretty trashed. So I cut out another pair for her to use for trick-or-treating. Easy to make, so it's not a big deal.}
7. We just used some swim goggles and a pink headband - which is normally NOT recommended for scuba diving.... but it works for a costume! **We were actually going to use some safety goggles and then add some craft foam around the edge for the mask, but couldn't find any that would be small enough for her to wear.
Now all we need to do is put our shark fins on {yep, the parents are being sharks this year!}, attach the leash and we are a go for trick-or-treating! My daughter LOVES wearing her costume - she cries when we have to take the harness off!! Her costume was a hit at our family Halloween party, and the main reason we don't have more photos than this is because we couldn't get her to hold still long enough!! :)
