Another article on how to make a costume sleeper

This one from suite101.com,enjoy:








Turn your child into a kitten or a tomato this Halloween.

By using different colored sleeper pajamas as the base, costumes can be made
with additions and alterations that allow warmth for the little
trick-or-treaters.
Kitten

To make a kitten costume, you can begin with a black, pink, white or a brown
pajama sleeper. For an example, we will be using black and white. You can easily
change the colors to suit your child's taste.

Begin with a black sleeper. Purchase a quarter yard of white felt and a pink
felt square. Cut a strip of felt the length of the fabric by two inches. Fold
the strip in half and hot glue it closed. With scissors, trim felt so that it
tapers to a point on one end. This is the tail. It can be sewn, hot glued or
safety pinned onto the seat of the sleeper.
Fold the remaining white felt in half and cut an oval. This piece will lay
centered on the tummy of the sleeper running up and down. Baste one side onto
the sleeper tummy. On the other side add adhesive backed velcro to the sleeper
and the felt. This will allow access to the zipper.
Cut four pointed ears from the black felt and two from the pink felt. Hot
glue two black pieces together. Trim the pink piece to be approx. 1/4" smaller
to leave a black border on the front of the ear when attached. Hot glue the pink
piece onto the black glued pieces so that the bottoms match up. Repeat with the
remaining ear pieces. Hot glue the ears to a headband.
Paint a nose and whiskers onto the child's nose and cheeks using makeup.

Tomato

To make the tomato costume begin with a red sleeper.

Purchase a quarter yard of green felt. Cut two large 1/2 circle measuring
approx. 16 inches across and 8 inches in depth from the felt. Each piece will
have a rounded side and a straight side. On the center of the straight side cut
a small half circle out approx. 6 inches across and 3 inches deep. Do this for
both pieces.
On the rounded edge cut triangles into the felt all the way across so that
it has pointed leaves coming out from the center.
Hot glue or sew one half circle to the back of the sleeper at the shoulders.
For the front only hot glue or sew one side. Use a couple of pieces of adhesive
backed velcro for the other shoulder in order to be able to get the child out of
the sleeper.
With the remaining felt cut three circles approx. eight inches across. Hot
glue them one on top of the other to make one thick circle.
Cut a piece of felt two inches by twelve inches. Begin at one end and roll
it up. Hot glue to secure it.
Hot glue three green pipe cleaners to the center of the circle. Curl them by
winding them around your finger.
Hot glue the rolled felt onto the center of the circle as the stem. Glue the
entire circle onto a headband.Use your one piece sleeper PJs to make a Halloween costume for your little one
and ensure they will be warm.

One-piece sleepers are a terrific resource for making costumes. With a little
extra touch they can be turned into an array of characters to please any child.
Bee

Use a yellow sleeper.
Decorate with black adhesive tape.
Adhere electrical tape stripes around the legs and body.

You can wrap tape into a cone shape to make a stinger.
Make two more cone shapes and tape them to a headband for antennae.

Fairy

Use a pink sleeper.
Purchase a yard of netting.
Get some heavy -weight wire

Cut netting in half the long way. Gather it up with needle and thread and
stitch it to the waist of the sleeper.
Bend wire into the shape of a wing. Make two.
Cover the wire with old panty hose. Tie them together with the hose. Cut
away excess hosery.
Stitch the wings to the sleeper back.

Dragon


Use a green sleeper.
Purchase a half yard of green fleece.
You will need about 8 felt squares.

Cut the fleece into a three-foot long triangle. You will have two long and
one short side to your triangle. Stitch up the long sides and stuff. Stitch the
whole piece to the seat of the sleeper.
Out of the felt, cut four 8", four 7", four 6" and four 5" triangles. Sew or
hot glue two sides of two of the 8" triangles together.
Repeat for each set of triangles. You will have a total of eight triangles
graduated in size.
Stuff each triangle with a piece of cardboard. Sew or hot glue onto the back
of the sleeper and down the tail going from largest triangle to smallest.

Mouse

Use a pink sleeper.
Purchase a quarter yard of gray felt and a pink felt square.
You will also need a 16th of a yard of black felt.

Fold the gray felt in half and cut an oval. This piece will lie centered on
the tummy of the sleeper running up and down.
Baste one side onto the sleeper tummy.
On the other side add adhesive backed velcro to the sleeper and the felt.
This will allow access to the zipper.
Cut four ears out of the felt. Use the scraps of gray to make a center for
each ear.
Attach the ears to a headband.
Stitch or glue the black felt into a long pointed tail. You can stitch or
safety pin this to the seat of the sleeper.
Draw a little mouse nose and whiskers using makeup.