Need last-minute costume ideas? Beyond sticking a load of Peeps all over a black T-shirt (you’re a “chick magnet,” get it?), or drawing a zigzag black line across a yellow T-shirt (Charlie Brown!), or grabbing a buddy with a red T-shirt to be a Dr. Suess-ian “Thing 1” and “Thing 2,” there 
are so many other costumes and accessories to make from your stash of old T-shirts using just a pair of scissors (and maybe a needle and thread).
For all you procrastinators, click through for two no-sew tutorials for a superhero cape (or a Dracula cape or a royal cape!) and a hula skirt (luau!) from Generation T: Beyond Fashion in an entry I wrote for the Workman blog…PLUS…ditch that plastic bag by learning to make your very own T-shirt trick-or-treat bag right here!!
Happy Haunting…
#42 Plastic Surgery
(tote for treats–or for groceries, the other 364 days a year)
Ingredients: 1 T-shirt (M, L, or XL) chalk marker scissors needle thread
[ Posted on October 26th, 2009 ]
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Major great! Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Im 16 years old and i took this idea but not for a trick or treat. I chose a black and white writted Super Bock (my selected beer :P) T-Shirt and I did step one, and then the rest by myself.
Its really cool now I can even put inside my school notebooks and books and fits perfectly!
Thank youuuuuuuuu! 🙂
Of course, the tote can be useful for many, many things more healthful than Halloween treats — like school books 😉 Great work!
PS: If you have a photo, be sure to post it over on Generation T Flickr or Facebook!
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This is great!! I have made one of these before and it works pretty well! I wrote about this on my blog Moving Happiness Home. You should check it out!
http://northstarmoving.com/blog/2010/recycling-your-cotton/
Snaps!